Good Idea to have Olympics held in Greece forever. Another good idea is to have an Olympics pause say for 40 years before that to let all the speculations around would calm and we could rearrange this idea from the white list.

A long pause - there's a good idea. The only problem is that the good athletes would be deprived of top-flight international competition. But I like the concept.

Time to watch "Chariots of Fire" again! ;)

Obviously, the Olympic games has evolved from an event for competitors to show off their talent and ability to a game which is heavily commercialized, with some political odour. The atletes, are just tools employed to gain benefit

Today's atletes, as what you guys have said, weilds high tech gadgets and designs, in order to win, by a difference of 0.01s, which cannot be differentiated by our naked eye, without the aid of modern day technologys.

In this sense, I agree with what you mean, the meaning of the games which represent our quest to unleash our full potentials, has faded out, replaced by some benefits driven by endless greed.

Now the value is not loss due to supressions in Tibet, but due to the money obessed merchants and all selfish world leaders who aim for national glory.

Your suggestions are nice, but I don't think IOC will ever think about it. Remember, IOC is yet another greedy commitee. Without donations from countries and without sweet talk tactic, the right to hold the Olympics will NOT be granted. This is granted, through.

How about giving each country a vote, and let them cast their vote to decide which will be hosting country. This would be fair, I think, and the effect of IOC on the result will be minimumized.

Understood and agreed that the IOC would view this with the same enthusiasm as a piranha in the hot tub, but my proposal is to simply ignore them and let the Olympics wander off into the sunset to do whatever they want.

Meanwhile, a second set of games would be started IAW the principles above. I suspect that the Olympics would linger for a while, but become of less and less relevence. Those interested in flash and glitter would follow them until they finally folded; those interested in sport for sport's sake would look to the alternative.

I vote for alternative games

You can dump the summer games. I could care less about them, but the winter olympics is a different story. :hmm: Minus figure skating, that's just the judge's opinion.