The Olympics (again)

I briefly watched the  Olympica on TV:  in what I suppose was volleyball: two young Brazilian and two young German women tossed a ball over a net on what looked like a sandy beach. Brazilian women are normally charming, but these two Brazilians looked at the Germans with the hard, indeed nasty look I have seen on the faces of some women executives.  I strongly advise against marrying a female volleyball player. Then I watched a little Chinese man (Chinaman is not pc) lift a bar with weights adding up to 350 (or was it 150?) kilos above his head. He then let it drop; fortunately it did not hit his foot.  He looked very proud, but the exercise seemed pointless to me.  He was back where he started. TV has enhanced the triumphalist aspect of sports, to the detriment of the game for the game's sake.  Is weight lifting s game? As a game, it's a turkey.

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