It Was an Oligarchs' Festival
A Greek tradition becoming commercialised has all the hallmarks of something going rogue. The Olympics have meant to us a lot of media noise, social control media noise, and generally busy newsrooms that do not cover or lack the capacity to cover "real news", such as corruption, climate change, wars and so on.
Now that it's over we still have a filter for the term "Olympics" (and "Olympic") [1, 2] and we'll strive to publish/cover a lot on topics that matter. Yesterday we served videos almost 33,000 times (pace of a million a month) and today we expect to publish many articles, albeit not 62 new pages like we did last Monday.
There's nothing wrong with sports; the Olympics have become a political game of nationalism and 'cancel culture', however well-meaning. The athletes aren't the masters of the event; they're the spectacles being monetised. The organisers really don't care what these athletes think. █
