I usually love watching winter sports, especially the figure skating, but also the ski races. This year, as has often been the case in the past, there’s controversy surrounding the Olympics.

Here’s some pros and cons on watching the Beijing Olympics.

Pros

• It will entertain you and you will enjoy. Yes, this is important to your mental health, especially after all the turmoil and angst of the last couple of years (pandemics, politics, you name it!)
• Support the athletes. Most of these young people have been working all their lives to get to this elite level to compete on the world stage. They deserve an audience, and for winter sports, that audience and window are brief.

• Support the tradition. At its heart, the Olympic ideal is a good one – to bring the youth of the world together in the name of sport. This, ideally, extends to their future lives where they will use this experience to work in the spirit of cooperation and diplomacy.
• The commercials might be the best part. Rich corporations spare no expense to debut Olympics-specific ads during the games. This goes back to my first point on being entertained, but on a different level.
• You need a break from Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Amazon and all the rest. Honestly. On a recent visit to my ophthalmologist, when he asked me what I’d been doing during the big P, I said watching a lot of Netflix. He asked, “did you finish?” I said I was close.

Where there are pros, there are also:

Cons

• China is an authoritarian regime that currently operates concentration camps for its Uigher (or Uygher) Muslim minority. It’s criminal, it’s disgusting, it’s crimes against humanity. By watching the Beijing Olympics, you give tacit approval to the host country and its actions.
• Don’t reward NBC. Like most giant media corporations, its news division will report on how awful China’s brutal regime is to the Uighers and Hong Kong, but still will rake in the bucks from the sports side, the Olympics. They went for the money instead of for what’s right and decent.

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• Don’t reward China for its attempt at legitimization. By hosting these Olympics, the dictator Xi Jinping who runs China hopes to get world recognition for his authoritarian corruption. We’ve seen this movie before – Hitler in 1936, Moscow in 1980. At least in 1980, the United States found its balls and did not reward the USSR by sending a team there.
• Finally, it’s a time suck and you know it. You have other things to do (like watch the Super Bowl, maybe? Needlepoint? Surely there’s something). It’s always a paradox: watching extremely fit young people competing for medals while you sink ever deeper into the recliner, your poor aging body atrophying by the minute. . .

Those are some thoughts on the pros and cons of watching the Beijing Olympics.

My choice? Perhaps it will be a hybrid, where I watch a few highlights after the fact on youtube or something like that. So I guess I will reward Google (owner of youtube) instead of NBC. Or maybe not. Maybe I’ll just find my balls and work on my own winter fitness.