Why are the Olympics so depressing? Thank goodness for Nathan Chen.
It’s the ridiculous and distracting technical score tracker taking up half the screen in figure skating events, like anyone watching is interested in monitoring the triple lutz stock market. It’s the crushing realization that you are geriatric when you watch these athletes and hear analysis about it being historic that a 25-year-old is skating in the Olympics, the oldest woman to do so in 95 years.
But since there’s so much to be depressed about elsewhere in the world, I’m making the bold decision to choose to embrace the elements that have brought me joy. Chloe Kim’s superstar warmth and charisma is infectious. It’s a strong year for those in the habit of googling “______ shirtless” after each male figure skater performs. I can only strive to one day have the energy of the American skater Jason Brown, who’s like, “I’m not going to do any quads, but I am going to be goddamn.” And then, of course, there’s gold medalist Nathan Chen, redeeming himself after he was branded a failure at the ripe old age of 18 for falling at the Olympics four years ago.
The force of Chen’s Olympic victory was electric. There has never been a more rousing response to something on television in my living room. This is the Olympics experience I’ve been missing. These are real people doing some of the most superhuman feats of athleticism the human body has ever accomplished. It shouldn’t be so hard—reviving high school arithmetic to decipher when the hell events are airing, ignoring the ugliness that has pervaded the discourse, braving the harrowing streaming waters of Peacock—to discover the rush of positivity that the Games are meant to produce. But this is 2022, after all. Happiness is a chore.As everyone knows, time is traditionally marked as B.C.
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