The ( modern ) Olympics Game is a distraction, it is the same as the shows that the empires or kings used to put on to entertain the masses.

I really don't get what's in it for the participants either, frame or money? The training may even be inhuman, and you train all your life for the game / a show for others, but then there are many careers like this...I have a cousin who was selected and trained for the Olympics when he was really young, then he trained for so many years and ended up wasting his youth... it's a winner-take-all game and nothing left for the others; Maybe even as a way to create more money with all these expenses and power exercising among nations...

ofc maybe I'm wrong.