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Originally Posted by Peter Galbavy  All modern Olympics just seem to me to be a feeding trough for a bunch of corrupt and corpulant free-loaders. If there ever was a modern day "Emporer's New Clothes" then the organisation of the Olympics is first in line. |
Indeed. Ever read a book called "The New Lords of the Rings".....?
It should be compulsory reading for all those sports body chief execs who are so "Olympic crazed." Which ever way you look at it, it's a subsidised ego-trip for the few (and I don't mean the athletes either) and I do not understand how it is supposed to improve sports performance.
We'd do better IMHO by stopping playing fields being sold off willy-nilly to property developers (the less well-off kids usually cannot afford the entry charges to the new "leisure centres" built as replacements) and in terms of our own house, looking at for example why it is with all this emphasis and cash on "performance" in archery it is proposed to LOWER the scores to get the recurve classifications........
All JM(NSH)O though and no doubt I'll need a hard-hat when the Olympic-lovers come on line.....
P.