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The 1932 Winter Olympics Looked Way More Fun, Dangerous than Sochi
Buried deep in the video database of the Internet Archive is footage of one of the first Winter Games — Lake Placid in 1932. The Olympics have changed since then; they're safer, smarter, and lamer.
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5000x more budget.
What was the budget? 10 million?
An era of amateurs.
There is something about jackass style amateur competitions that are just so much more fun to watch. Today's olympics are all about science and precision, back in the 1920's it was just people having fun and trying to out do each other in a much more innocent way.
It's so much more commercialized now.