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To: original Blackbag

Tell me again why I should get excited about a professional athelete competing in an Amateur Olympics?


18 posted on 08/06/2012 11:26:53 AM PDT by jettester (I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
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To: jettester
Tell me again why I should get excited about a professional athelete competing in an Amateur Olympics?

The Olympics have officially not been amateur for quite a long time, and were de facto no amateur for even longer.

The whole idea of the Olympics as an amateur event was basically a fraud from the beginning - the only reason it ever was was to make sure that only the aristocracy and independently wealthy could compete, and were uncontaminated by the "lower classes."

24 posted on 08/06/2012 12:33:45 PM PDT by Strategerist
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