Not only that, but despite the meganormousness of the event, some sports are asked to make way for the more "trendy" ones through absurd participation-limiting processes : for example, canoeing slalom was restricted to one participant per nation, which mean that many potential gold medalists won't get to participate ; or one of the very traditional Olympic sports, fencing, the team events have to rotate between the three weapons : each Olympiad, one of team fleuret, epée and sabre is kept out... And in the mean time, there's that soccer tournament with a dozen 22-persons teams, which noone cares about. In short, good ratings (beach volley, with swimwear participants ! ) is put before actual fair competition.

And of course, the 'let's have the Olympics in the US every ten years' tradition is annoying. Why not just say they take place in Atlanta all the time and get done with it ?

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères