From a local Denver Sports reporter/commentator (whose paper covers skiing poorly, in general):
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/15/mikaela-shiffrin-big-deal-in-america/
The reporter even walked around the sparse crowd and found it full of disinterested, haphazard folk, not fans.
I think a basic problem of maybe all the recent winter - and summer - games was the places were chosen by major bribery, and for political prestige considerations, not for the convenience and enjoyment of the athletes and real fans. Probably future, already scheduled Olympics venues have been chosen in the same corrupt ways, much like international soccer (one of the few, other, truly international sports), and others, as @Bart Parnell described.
All this probably just parallels what's happened with countries. Other centuries were maybe characterized by the rise of religions, kings, nations or idealogies, but ours so far may prove to be about "The Rise of Kleptocracies." Gangster states.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/15/mikaela-shiffrin-big-deal-in-america/
The reporter even walked around the sparse crowd and found it full of disinterested, haphazard folk, not fans.
I think a basic problem of maybe all the recent winter - and summer - games was the places were chosen by major bribery, and for political prestige considerations, not for the convenience and enjoyment of the athletes and real fans. Probably future, already scheduled Olympics venues have been chosen in the same corrupt ways, much like international soccer (one of the few, other, truly international sports), and others, as @Bart Parnell described.
All this probably just parallels what's happened with countries. Other centuries were maybe characterized by the rise of religions, kings, nations or idealogies, but ours so far may prove to be about "The Rise of Kleptocracies." Gangster states.