By Jeva Lange, The Week

In one of my characteristic moments of having no idea what day it was (a state I’ve lived in more or less constantly since March 2020), I got the inkling this week that the Opening Ceremony must be impending and did a requisite Google search of “Olympic first day.”

It took me a couple of slow moments to realize that the displayed results were telling me the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris — not the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, which in fact start on Friday. And if that’s news to you — that, yes, the Olympic Games start this week — then you’re very much not alone. This year’s enthusiasm for the Olympics seems to be at an all-time low.

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