Posted on 08/05/2016 11:02:43 AM PDT by Biggirl
Odd as it may sound, Olympic competition once included art, and medalists included musicians, painters, and poets. One was Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the 1912 Stockholm Games’ gold medalist in poetry and — by sheer coincidence, surely — also the modern games’ founder. “O sport,” the nobleman’s winning “Ode to Sport” waxed, “you are beauty,” and “audacity,” and the “pleasure of the gods.” A century on, the Olympics still embody beauty, but the audacity they now conjure is not what Coubertin had in mind, but a celebration of cheating and a saga of lost innocence — financially, athletically, and politically.
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-—but the audacity they now conjure is not what Coubertin had in mind, but a celebration of cheating and a saga of lost innocence — financially, athletically, and politically.-—
Well said.
Look out for Greece becoming great friends with Russia and possibly other countries such as Italy, Spain, and France.
I would have agreed a few years ago. However, the financial, Socialist disaster that is Greece cannot support them either.
Yep I thought the same. Given the condition Greece is in now, not a great idea.
Watched a show on the Munich Olympics in 1936.
Talk about corruption on the part of the IOC.
Original olympians were pagan nudists.
Modern Greece and the Modern Olympic Games:
A match made in Hades!
Personally, I think the Australians did the best job.
I have seen the summer and winter olympics over the years, what was done down under was done without issues of either of money woes,scandel, or politics rearing its ugly heads.
Keeping it at Greece would eliminate a good bit of the corruption and reduce costs.
It also would give Greece support in trying to recover from their situation.
I agree with you. A permanent venue in Greece, where pride in their national heritage is highlighted, is a great idea. It could be used for other events, including in the arts, in between the Olympics. And it would give Greece the boost (financial and otherwise) it needs to get out from under the claws of the EU.
Was it possible for Greeks 750+ years before the birth of Christ to have not been pagans?
Your statement makes no sense.
I agree. A permanent location just outside of Athens would provide financial support for Greece, rid the corrupt and disastrous bidding aspect of the games, and provide athletes with places to train.
The venues could also be used for other competitions. Each participating nation (or in the case of the United States, the non-governmental U.S. Olympic committee) would have dues to pay for upkeep and administration of the site.
The winter games could pick a single location as well. Probably in Scandinavia or Switzerland.
Just more of the Culture of Rot-—to promote an evil, avaricious, vile worldview to children, which glorifies drugs, perversion/mutilation of the body, and the plasticization (dehumanization) of the body.
Oh yes—there are still those who don’t drug and abuse the body—but now they are doomed to lose to the souped-up, soulless ones. The press will glorify and make them into “heroes” for the children, especially if they are an evil pederast like Harvey Milk to make evil into good (to destroy Chrsitian Ethics (worldview to paganism, satanism since vice creates slaves for the state).
True beauty, natural beauty, was jettisoned with the politicization-—not that it was ever free of politics—nothing ever is—but when it pursued Excellence (Virtue) and Truth of Human Beauty—not the artificial-— it had some good to offer cultures. But, corruption is inevitable wherever money and fame are involved-—always was—always will be——it is just that NOW our Media promotes perversions and evil to children 24/7 as they advertise viagra and other of their satanic, hedonist worldview promoted by advertising-—marketing of Evil 24/7 to children.
Hint: unplug the children and let them play catch with you in the back yard—and play board games, etc.——Live life-—don’t let children be programmed by the perverts in artificial realities, who want slaves (puerile useful idiots) for life. It all is dehumanizing as the Amish knew-—which is leading to trans-humanism (J. Huxley).
We better return to Natural Law (Reason/Logic/Free Will/Individualism) instead of the utopianism/irrationality/artificial realities of Marxism which leads to “group-think” collectivism— totalitarianism-—complete dehumanization (slavery) and Mind control.
Scatter events around the world.
Europe hosts soccer
US Basketball
Russia gymnastics
Japan, martial arts
etc.
They can be switched out every 8 years. Europe gets soccer for 8 years, South America for 8.
Use preexisting facilities.
Why Greece? Other than an historical quirk of the origin of the name...
The financial problems with the Olympics stem from going to cities where developing-world nations aren’t tryign to turn a profit, but trying to prove that they “have arrived” in the modern world.
Simply stick to the major cities that have the infrastructure already in place:
Tokyo, New York, LA, Seoul, London, Paris. That’s based on the total size of the economy of those cities. And guess what? In every one of them, the Summer Olympics would take place in the Summer.
For the Winter Olympics, Tokyo, Seoul, Essen-Cologne, Moscow, Milan. Yeah, you don’t have to go to Sochi to find ski resorts; there are plenty right near Moscow.
The Winter Olympics are addicted to gorgeous ski-resort towns. But the longest drop in the winter games is only 1,075 feet. You can host a ski run that size in suburban New Jersey. Not saying you would... but you don’t need to build Olympic Villages in tiny resort cities.
I have not watched the olympics since the early 90’s. It is a complete non-event to me. They can do with it as they will.
they are a complete sham compared to the old days, the old days, where we actually had amateurs...
the hype is what I can't stand...that and the shallow ness and the tape delay...
I just can't watch "live" sports on tape delay...
Even then, especially in the Communist countries, it was "Amateur in name only".
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