Sunday, April 13, 2008

Faster, Higher, Stronger - More Corrupt?


End the Olympics?


Too tainted to continue.


So goes a compelling argument in this morning's NY Times.

Posted by David Berner at 9:51 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Keeping politics out of the Olympics is like keeping human nature out of the games. The Olympics are the stories of humanities highs and low. If you read the history of the Olympics you see that boycotts are as much a part of the games as the discus. It was ever thus.

BTW I leaned, thanks to CTV News, that guess who started the Olympic torch run? A guy in 1936 named A. Hitler.

April 13, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Anonymous said...

I agree with the author of the NY Times piece. End the Olympics fiasco - beginning in 2010.

April 13, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Anonymous said...

Good article. At the very least, I agree with the idea of permanent venues for specific events.

I found this sentence interesting.

. . . An American departure would severely dilute the Games since it would no longer be a world competition of anything.

More aptly put in the following paragraph:

. . . If Americans aren’t playing, Americans won’t watch.

Mo.

April 13, 2008 at 12:56 PM

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