After 24 years of being consciously aware of the Olympics and being reasonably indifferent to the concept of the whole (though interested in several parts within) I have developed three opinions that I am recording here to look up in two years.

Any sport that has an extant “best of the world” competition should not be in the Olympics.

The Olympics started as a competition of pure athleticism. Events that require the opinions of judges should not be included.

We shouldn't be talling medals by nations. Nations should participate as the pool from which teams can be made and their local Olympic committees deciding which athletes can partake, but that's it. It shouldn't be a competition between nations.