The Olympics, like the Holy Roman Empire, has betrayed all of the principles that it claims to uphold. And, like the HRE, will probably last indefinitely, or at least as long as there is money to be made selling broadcast rights.
I was going to say that I must have, for some reason, been more interested in figure skating from '84-'98, because those are the only ones I got or can even remember hearing of before. But then... looking at the quiz results... it looks like the world was more interested in figure skating those same years.