Who Else is Sick of the Olympics?

I am ready for the Olympics to be over and done with. Truth be told, I was already sick of them before they started. And though I didn't think it possible, I hate them more each day.

• I don't care about how many medals Canada has won.
  
• I care even less if our hockey team beats the Americans.
  
• If figure skating is a sport, then ballet should be in the summer games.
  
• Anyone who catapults themselves down a track made of ice at 140km an hour shouldn't be too surprised if they die doing it.
  

Most of all, I find the amount of money spent on this event to be completely disgusting. My girl Julie Cole had it right 2 years ago. When I think about the cash thrown at the opening ceremonies alone (pegged at over $38 million) I want to invite the entire VANOC committee to go have sex with themselves. The cost of hosting the 2010 Olympics is already coming in at over $2.5 billion dollars (what with having to truck in snow at $1000 a truck from the interior of BC and all). Don't even get me started about the whole Own the Podium fiasco, I might go into orbit.

Families with children with Autism are bankrupting themselves to get their kids the treatment they need just so they can have a semblance of a normal life. Even worse are the kids who will get no treatment because their families don't have resources to deplete to get them crucial ABA treatment between the key ages of 2 and 5 years old. So pardon me if I don't give a shit about the fact that we didn't medal in downhill. Max is a bigger hero in my eyes than any Olympian could ever be. It's time to start valuing what is truly important, and it isn't an event that has essentially turned into yet another mass marketing vehicle for huge companies to pedal their wares. For shame.