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Ah, Raphael, I am glad that you found joy in getting to see this.

Thank you for showing this as it is likely something I will never see in person myself.

I must say, however, that I find the crass commercialization of the spectacle to be rather disenchanting, distracting from the supposedly pure ideals of the International Olympic gathering and the dedicated efforts of the athletes that are the true Olympians of our age!

It seems that it should go without saying, but along with the commercialization, there is also the associated politics that perhaps does even more to rob the Olympics of their higher ideals!

Or perhaps it is just me that feels this way?!?!