I mean, at the end of the day despite their enormous athletic achievements it's hard not to view nearly all traditional Olympic sports as a hobby. They're typic

I mean, at the end of the day despite their enormous athletic achievements it's hard not to view nearly all traditional Olympic sports as a hobby. They're typically quite mundane things, and they're never going to attract a regular audience of any real size. Things like basketball and tennis are successful outside of the Olympics because people like watching them, but its pretty hard to get excited about watching someone throwing an object exactly one, or running for 11 seconds once every 4 years.