Anarchists in real life are concerned with fascism, capitalism, opression, etc, not the Olympics.
And even if they did, it's hardly "nationalistic", it's a global gathering of different countries for friendly competition, almost the opposite of nationalism. There would be thousands more nationalistic things to concern themselves.
In my experience, many people who label themselves anarchists are just rebels without a cause. They don't like authority of any sort.
Also the Olympics is absolutely nationalist. The competition is friendly but most people don't watch it saying "I hope they all just have fun", they watch it to see their country win.
Which is all good an well. Doesn't mean they go around sabotaging the Olympic Games. More like demonstrating against the police and such.
>Also the Olympics is absolutely nationalist. The competition is friendly but most people don't watch it saying "I hope they all just have fun", they watch it to see their country win.
As far as nationalism goes that's not even worth mentioning, that's peanuts. The last thing any anarchist would be concerned with.
Your position that the Olympics are the opposite of nationalism is a new one to me, though. I think I'd probably disagree. Kathleen Powers wrote in 2021 [1] that nationalism is woven into the fabric of the Olympic Games, I found it convincing enough.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/26/do-olympi...
More importantly, though, Olympics have become a major capitalism fest, its increasingly about consumption, and a small number of already very rich people making shitload of money at the expense of the public in the organizing country.