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Originally Posted by jammies
You must have the Olympics confused with some other sporting event. It hasn't been about celebrating amateur sport for a few decades now.
It is now a ersatz war game where the "winning" country is the one that gets the most medals, and where the host country spends untold billions of dollars trying to outdo the previous host country in gaudy show business numbers that would fit in perfectly in Las Vegas. It has also been politicized since the West boycotted Moscow in 1980 and the Soviet Bloc boycotted LA in 1984.
You might as well worry about the virginity of a crack ho as the sanctity of the Olympics.
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I'm not going to delve into this too much, but I once heard that the Calgary 88 Olympics was the last event that actually turned a profit.
Isnt Montreal still paying for their Olympics?
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