I enjoy the fringe sports I would never otherwise watch. I will watch track and field, rowing, even archery in the Olympics, but never the rest of the time. I can watch great Baseball, Basketball or soccer any time, but this is the showcase for the other guys.

One exception: I hate hate hate judged sports. So no diving, gymnastics, or synchronized swimming for me.

I need a finish line, clock or scoreboard.

If the Olympics lose viewers over the last ones, a cause could be the fact that much of the television world has turned into separate competitions. Reality pits chefs, designers, weight losers, map followers, backstabbers and many other categories into warring parties whose goal is to win the equivalent of a gold medal--and a recording contract or an appearance on "Oprah."
America is numbed and tiring of contests, I think.
Is it time for Olympics to start down the path of world's fairs? They used to be big things, until the world shrunk and you now can get more marvels out of an iPhone than you could in all of Flushing Meadows.
Just a thought.