Categorizing the Olympic Sports by their watchability:

Not all medals are equal, though we pretend they are.  Some are in highly contested sports that people actually care about, and some are team sports that require long tournaments to win instead of some 30 second moment.  But it's so difficult to classify all the various events and how valuable each medal should be counted that people have given up and just declared them all equal as a compromise.

The mission is too difficult for me as well, but I'll at least try to give a vague sense of which medals should really matter based on which sports should really matter:

Legendary tier:  Basketball, Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track & Field

Must-see tier: Cycling, Diving, Trampoline, Triathlon

Worthwhile tier:  Archery, Beach Volleyball, Rowing, Rugby, Volleyball

If You're Bored tier: Badminton, Equestrian, Fencing, Modern Pentathlon, Shooting, Skateboarding, Table Tennis

Unwatchable tier: Artistic Swimming, Basketball 3 x 3, Boxing, Breaking, Canoeing, Field Hockey, Golf, Handball, Judo, Sailing, Sport Climbing, Taekwondo, Water Polo, Weightlifting, Wrestling

This is why Serbia, for instance, should be treated as a much bigger winner of the Paris Olympics than its medal count says.  Serbia won gold in men's individual tennis, which featured all the greatest stars of one of the most watched and highest paid sports in the world.  It also won bronze in men's basketball, featuring some of the highest paid and most watched athletes in the world after a long and grueling tournament.  Who cares if some other country won three medals in boxing or judo or wrestling or whatever, sports that no one watches or competes in anymore?  And honestly, the sport is called 'track & field', but the 'field' medals shouldn't count either.  Track is where it's at, field is silly nonsense.  And a lot of Ukraine's medals came from that suspect 'field' portion.

Also, in a lot of these sports there's a gender divide.  Women's basketball is almost unwatchable the athletes are so incompetent, but the men's basketball is the highlight of the Games.  No one wants to watch beefy women tackling each other in rugby, but the men were delightful.  Likewise, no one really cares about men's gymnastics or trampoline or diving or beach volleyball, we all came to watch the women.  It's just too difficult to classify everything precisely where it should be, so the men sneak in as actually valid participants.

I think the Beijing Olympics were the best ever put on.  Back then Russia was allowed to compete and there were no transgender athletes.  The opening ceremony was sublime.  But Paris ranks up there, mostly because of the city itself.  Paris must be the most beautiful city on Earth.  Every single building is some sort of palace or cathedral designed to be the most beautiful structure on Earth.  Every single building.  You can't throw a stone in Paris without hitting some awe-inspiring soaring structure, garden, fountain, statue, bridge, etc.  I will have fond memories of these Olympics forever.  And with Peacock streaming every event, I was able to watch more Olympics than ever before at a time of my choosing, which also makes these modern Olympics better than the past.  Overall I salute this moment of modernity, it's one of the few highlights of the recent age.  (Also, the countries I was cheering for won and the countries I was cheering against lost, which really sweetened the deal.)

Putting the Olympics in the rear mirror, which is hard to do but must be done, next up is World of Warcraft: The War Within.  Unfortunately there's a ten-day gap before the expansion I already paid for actually comes out, but it could still be worthwhile to do various pre-patch activities and level alts.  Probably pre-War Within WoW is still better than the alternatives.