Community Quote by Daley Thompson

To me, the Olympics are very important, obviously, but it's not something that I'm gonna change everything for.

— Chloe Kim

The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to…

— Terre Thaemlitz

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic…

— Richard Attias

The Olympics are great, but they only truly mean something when the moments that come out of them are bigger than the individual sports.

— W. Kamau Bell

Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious…

— Mary Pilon

To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.

— Abhinav Bindra

When you start taking the original sports away from the Olympics, you really change what the Olympic Games are.

— Cael Sanderson

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or…

— George Packer

There's a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games.

— Eric Shanteau

What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to…

— Richard Attias

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most…

— Eduardo Paes

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship…

— Andrew Young