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The Olympic Games have jumped the shark
“Like, the Olympics are not what they were, right? They've gotten, they've kind of jumped the shark, unfortunately. Like, I love the Olympics, but I, it just, it's, what was that? I mean, when the big story is the breakdancing lady, like, the Olympics has also …”
Skisov: Karate in the Olympics will fail miserably
“And with karate going into Olympics in I, you know, they're gonna fail miserably. They don't know it yet.”
Brit Morin: Taylor Swift Drew More Visitors to Paris Than the Olympics
“She brought more people to Paris than the Olympics are expected to.”
Sam Lessin: The Olympic Games are failing as a global media platform
“It's like clearly flailing, right? As like a sports platform, which you think was supposed to be the whole global thing, but like it's going in super weird directions and I think not successful in its strategy, right? Versus like the NBA and NFL, right? I thin…”
Morin: Streaming destroyed broadcast television's multi-month Olympic storytelling model
“NBC and these, the big platforms had this like static audience that they could tell the story of the athletes to in the lead up to the Olympics. So they could like build the story of an athlete for the many months leading up to it. And that's just gone now wit…”
Visa holds exclusive Olympic card sponsorship rights through 2032
“It has now been 37 years that Visa is the exclusive payments global sponsor of the Olympics. They're contracted through 2032. So it will be at least 46 years where Visa Is the only card accepted at the Olympics.”
Attia: Exceptional aging requires broad physical well-roundedness over specialization
“What is it about decathletes that are relevant? Well,
They're generally considered the best athletes.
you know, the person who wins the decathlon at the Olympics is generally regarded as the best athlete.
But individually, they're not great at any one sport.
…”
Craft: Beijing was awarded the Olympics by five votes
“Well, you know, we should have never allowed in, in July of, when Beijing was awarded by five votes, by the way, awarded the Olympics.”
F1 ranks just behind the Olympics and World Cup in global viewership
“And F one was one of the most watched events in the world. I think it's just right after the Olympics and the world cup, it is one of the most watched events and it provided the tobacco industry. With, which was at the time, one of the biggest sponsors with un…”
Domingos: Human Competition Will Endure Despite Superhuman Computers
“I think more likely what will happen is that people will still be playing each other, even though the best is our computers in the same way that, you know, there's race cars that go way faster than people. But we still have people doing, you know, in the Olymp…”