To put it simply, it hasn't been the same since Gorbachev turned in his hammer and sickle and the laughable Yeltsin took the stage.
It's hard to despise a people who are struggling to put food on the table and equally difficult to hate a country who's relying on handouts just to stay afloat.
Maybe I'm nostalgic.
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Maybe I'm just bitter.
But some of that "Olympic Spirit" has been lost since the Cold War went the way of the dinosaur.
It's great to cheer the champion.
But it's just as nice to abhor the vanquished.
They are two sides to the very same coin. To have a great champion, there must be a worthy foe.
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