I've always hated the Olympics as the waste-of-public-money-sports-jamboree that (IMO) it is, and for years proudly displayed an old post by Sinister Agent (much missed) as my sig at WoS, along the lines of '... Londoners would rather have 15 billion quid spent on infrastructural and social improvements than watch people chuck stuff around for a while' (
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But, even I could not have conceived of how much of an utterly bent, pointless cheating-drugfest it's turned out to be; even 'sports jamboree' is too generous a title, as it turns out. I mean seriously, the stuff that's starting to come out now would make FIFA directors blush with embarrassment; I just can't get my head around why anyone could seriously give a fig about this discredited beyond all redemption shameful gravy-train?
In retrospect, no-one could seriously argue that those billions upon billions could not have been far better spent on boring old schools, hospitals, new roads and rail, minus the fanfare bullshit.
Quote:
The London Olympics were “sabotaged” by Russian athletes who doped and the inaction of authorities to prevent them competing, according to a remarkable report which casts a significant shadow over the 2012 Games.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/ ... ing-report...So, yeah, that's tens of billions well spent, then.
Oh no, that's right, it's very much not. Who would have thought it, eh? Another "unforeseeable" fiasco...
(I should add, of course, that as I have always said, I have no objection to the Olympics per se, but in that case let the people who want it bloody well pay for it).