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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
The whole meaning of the olympics has changed. It is supposed to be about amateur atheletes, those with regular jobs with some sponsorship to cover training costs but that is it.
Now they have the likes of Tennis and Football in the games. Fine if it was competitors from a local amateur team, but they have national teams and likes of Darya Safina and Williams playaing. That's professional is it not. They earn money playing.
We might as well have darts...and snooker. More golds for the UK then.
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Don't forget BMX bike riding:rotfl: The Olympics have come a long way, it's just in the wrong direction  |
The 'modern' games have never been in the right direction, even from the roots of the 'gentlemanly' competitor. The original concept of the modern Olympic Games was deeply rooted in the biases of race and class. Today, while those distinctions are gone, the Olympics are little more than an international p*ssing contest, where nation states seek to assert their superiority over each other my pitting their state-funded, trained and [sometimes] chemically-altered 'athletes' against each other in the persuit of the all-important medal count. That nations with more questionable leadership would restort to underhanded methods should hardly be astounding.