Category: Sign of the Times
Posted by George Bullard on Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:30 PMOlympics panel: Still shoddy after all these years
Long-running anti-Americanism gave Chicago its first round loss for 2016 Olympics. "This is an easy way for countries to express resentment toward us, as a superpower, without suffering any consequences, like having their foreign aid cut off or their weapons programs cut off," Doug Logan, CEO of USA Track and Field, told Associated Press.
He nailed it.
In the first round, Chicago lost out to half-hearted efforts from Tokyo and Madrid. The U.S. bid cost $50 million for naught.
Anti-Americanism has been around for decades. It's the cost of being top dog in a world of mostly-pathetic, indoor-plumbing-challenged countries.
President Obama would have been criticized if he had made the trip or not.
Perhaps the U.S. should just stop bidding to host the Olympics, an organization pocked with corruption, greed and bribery over the years.
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Who wants the Olympics? Who wants to pay the immense costs for many sports that we do not care about? The expenditure would be better spent on libraries, museums and the arts- or a token reduction in the deficit. Brazil is the "winner". Brazil is a country that pleads poverty rather then making reasonable payments for the intellectual capital behind drugs and yet will spend huge amounts of money for the Olympic show.
Agreed. Sports are pretty much out of control.
On the smaller scale, I think colleges and universities should ban recruiting for sports teams. Using walk-ons -- people who actually go to college for an education -- would be true amateur sport.
--B.
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