Desert rat race

Ladies, gentleman, athletes and aesthetes, genetic freaks and degenerate geeks,

I have a vision, a visioning of the future: a future of slipping pasts and unsurmountable descents; a future of overheated comforts and chilling under expectations; a future of ignoble prizes and wooden spoon runners in dead heat with omelet on their faces ... and now that vision has come to pass ... welcome to never-ending-summer Olympics!