Olympics
4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2024 by Dave Morin · across every show →
Everything said about Olympics, oldest first
Feb 16, 2024 negative
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…”
Feb 16, 2024 bearish
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…”
May 17, 2024 positive
Aug 15, 2025 bearish
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 …”