Nine ways Olympic Games have been completely compromised

Third time through the batting order. You know what that means … time to consult our Olympics TV checklist!

1. Perversity as Diversity? Check.

That was taken care of on Day 1 with that preapproved and rehearsed freak show starring an obese drag queen in a revolting mockery of Da Vinci’s “Last Supper.”

If it was designed to infuriate Christians as well as respectful viewers of all faiths, including none, it stuck its landing. But why was it included in the Opening Ceremonies of an international athletics event, or what used to be televised as one? What was the point?

Gay men and women were represented by fringe lunatics in a freak-show ambush shown to millions.

Besides, obese male cross-dressers mocking Christianity should by now know their place: On the field during the Dodgers’ Pride Night festivities — with Rob Manfred’s gutless approval — and in libraries, reading to 6-year-olds.

2. NBC’s shameless exploitation of Olympic rights to endlessly sell NBCUniversal inventory? Check.

Again from Day 1, tied itself into transparent knots pedaling NBCUniversal’s coming movie version of “Wicked.” Follow the gold brick road. Little escaped a tortured tie-in with this movie’s debut. We’re surprised NBC hasn’t colorized the faces of athletes to be seen as Witch Green.

3. Absurd Negligence before Quality Control? Check.

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Media have no shame in PC culture hypocrisy

Topping the chart — though there’s time left — was the IOC having the South Korean team float by during the Opening Ceremonies as it was identified as the team from South Korea’s bitter despotic Communist enemy, North Korea!

In U.S. terms, this was like identifying Abraham Lincoln as Jefferson Davis or, worse, Pedro Martinez as Don Zimmer. But the show-us-the-money IOC only had years to prepare.

4. Load the “coverage” with all-hands-on-dreck NBC shills and banal interviews with non-Olympic stars in attendance? Check.

NBC has, by design, turned these Games into “Access Hollywood” with the Eiffel Tower as background.

While many viewers continue to wonder why career criminal Snoop Dogg, of vulgar, women-trashing rapping infamy was able to clear French Customs, NBC has made more than too much room for him to lend his awkward presence and semi-coherence in service to those least likely to be watching.

His rotten-idea presence was in full, ridiculous view when he was assigned to interview retired Olympic gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps, as Snoop, perhaps unable to even Doggy Paddle, clung to the side of a pool from its inside.

That was such a forced waste of time that it created unintended comedy — the joke fully on conspicuously desperate NBC.

Then there was “Today Show” co-host Craig Melvin’s fluffball interview with LeBron James. Melvin kept a straight face when James declared that he’s something he’s so clearly not. “I’m a team guy,” he said.

5. NBC News wins Olympic platform diving? Check. All day and night, every day and night.

Apparently with nothing newsworthy to report around here, local Ch. 4 News has led with “Hooray for the USA!” reports from Paris. As the Vichy French police explained while rounding up citizens for deportation to Nazi Germany, “Just following orders.”

NBC’s national news, anchored — or rather, hosted — by shameless shill Lester Holt, also has led with “USA! USA!” reports from Paris.

Here, there and everywhere the world is immersed in conflagration, but let the other networks handle that. “Here’s tonight’s Team USA lineup, right here on NBC.” Holt wants to be paid, right?

Imagine if worst figures in sports weren’t celebrated

Not that Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams were different when they anchored the news from the sites of NBC’s Olympics. They’d even be shown standing in the snow during Winter Olympics.

6. Commercial revenue before or beside live event coverage? Check.

Even swimming events have included spilt screens to shrink the view, sharing it with ads — some to encourage us to watch the Olympics.

7. Bad news and worse from right there at the Olympics ignored? Check.

Sabotage of the Paris railways; a far-left Russian activist arrested as the primary suspect? Muslims chanting “Heil Hitler” and giving the Nazi salute at the Israeli soccer team? Two arrested for planning terrorist attacks during the Olympics?

Forget it. Now over to Mike Tirico for another mumble session with Snoop Dogg.

8. Obligatory r emoval of a broadcaster for making a politically incorrect wisecrack ? Check.

see also Bob Ballard speaks out after being pulled from Eurosport’s Olympics coverage over sexist comment about women’s swim team

Bob Ballard, veteran swimming commentator for Eurosport, was removed after making a bad joke: The gold medal Australian freestyle relay team was slow to reach the podium, saying, “You know what women are like … hanging around, you know, doing their makeup.”

He apologized, adding that he has long supported, on the air, women’s sports — as if such should matter to the irreconcilably and unknowing offended.

Yet, that very day numerous Team USA women’s tennis players abandoned their Olympic dorm with the gripe that there are only two bathrooms for 10 women and only “two mirrors to apply makeup.”

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9. Classless NFL, NBA and now WNBA-like sniping between and among U.S. Olympians on social media? Check.

Yanks OK with fans missing games

Good news. Yankee president Randy Levine must be feeling better, no longer in need of a gastro doctor to cure his raging dyspepsia.

When the start of the 2022 season was delayed due to the absence of a Collective Bargaining Agreement, Levine made the local radio rounds to declare his soulful kinship with baseball fans:

“Every time I hear games canceled it makes me sick, but we will get into it and try to accommodate our fans the best way we can if we have to.”

Since then more and more Yankee telecasts have been hidden or lost to fans as 24 games this season have been placed or will be placed behind anything-for-money streaming paywalls — with Levine’s considerable help.

The oft-stated notion that cut-the-cable-cord streaming is the future of televised sports may be true. I still don’t think the public will purchase baseball games as it does first-run movies and entertainment specials.

But if it is down-the road true, let the future come to sports, not the opposite. We’re not lab rats with money to burn. If properly managed — fat chance — sports are in no immediate danger of losing interest or value among streaming services.

But Levine must be feeling a lot better.

USWNT on best behavior with Rapinoe now retired

For my limited attention span, the best U.S.-side story from the Olympics has been the behavior of the women’s soccer team. It’s as if there was a concerted effort to delouse the team of the obnoxious, all-about-me misconduct of Megan Rapinoe among others.

In its 4-1 win vs. Germany, the women behaved as if we could proudly declare them “our women.” Not only did they demonstrate deft passing and alert clearing tactics, they didn’t stick it in their opponents’ or crowd’s faces.

Also, Katie Ledecky continues as both a special swimmer and person. Given her family — her uncle Jon Ledecky is co-owner of the Islanders and a modest, generous, great-to-meet-ya guy — that’s not surprising.

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