Shewolf wrote:
I love the games usually, but you are right..if we want to inspire kids where are the huge range of facilities to let do their thing???
And as for the games this time..I feel sorry for anyone stupid enough to go and compete in that smog and pollution.
Roll on 2012!
Nirejhenge wrote:
I think the only way they can overcome this is to turn protesting into an olympic event.
You, sir, are a genius.
I'm not at all interested in the Olympics (although if you think the fuss about the 2012 bid was annoying for those of you who didn't live in London, just imagine how infuriating it was if you
did, and you wanted the whole thing to just fuck off and the government to stop spending your money on promoting it just so their business mates can make a packet off it. Everywhere you went, there were signs reading "BACK THE BID". FUCK YOU. If you want my support, give me a fucking reason and
ask for it, you unbearably smug shitwicks), but I don't think that sport and athletics are worthless. They're a significant part of most cultures going back thousands of years, and every bit as valid in terms of inspiration and achievement as poetry or philosophy.
The Olympics, however, is another matter, as it's little but an excercise in crass commercialism complicated by international politics.
If they brought back the Hoplites and the chariot race though, I'd watch that.