If golf counts as a sport, so does drying paint. And I'm dying to see the first exhibition of beach volleyball in Nunavat. There can be no sport where commercial interest is involved, either by the individual competitor or by a "sponsor" seeking advertising. The olympic ideal is supposed to be the striving of each individual----not a "national team". I'm afraid the coverage I've seen since I arrived in North America has given rise to some disgust.The only fair coverage I could find on tv of the last games was on the French-speaking channel. It actually acknowledged the existence of athletes from Asia, Africa and Europe.