Summer Food Fun and Drink - Olympic Rant #31 Go Tiger Go · 13.08.09 by colin newell
Satire – Picture if you would: Tiger Woods lining up a 20-foot putt on the final hole with an Olympic gold medal at stake.
The elderly wizards at the IOC decided Thursday that golf would be recommended for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Games.
Picture upper right – Cockroach or VANOC member? You judge.
Could any sport be further from the original Olympic spirit, more exclusive or more removed from the open-to-all ethos that use to empower the games?
It costs a small fortune to buy a bag of even the cheapest golf clubs and membership to clubs the world over could end hunger in any sub Saharan country. And gender equity? Augusta, the home of the Masters, still refuses female members.
As for baseball and softball, it was a case of “You’re out!” Voted out four years ago and denied reinstatement a year later, they were among the five sports failing to make the grade this time.
The International Olympic Committee executive board selected golf and rugby from a list of seven proposed sports, which also included squash, karate and roller sports.
The board also approved lady’s boxing for the 2012 London Games.
What ever happened to amateur sport in the Olympics? Oh. I know.
Pro hockey, pro basketball and so on happened to the Olympic spirit.
A local newspaper columnist wrote a few days ago: “Only the truly mean-spirited wouldn’t want the 2010 Olympics to succeed…”
Uhm. What is success where the 2010 Olympics is concerned?
Some of us would say Gold medals – but the reality of these worthless medallions on a strap is that the Olympic movement is little more than an organized band of locusts moving from community to community, sanctioned by morally bankrupt governments, guarded by emotionally vacant police and security forces – for the sole purpose or letting this corporation suck our futures dry to benefit the wealthy royal few.
Shame.
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