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To: pieceofthepuzzle

I think they have ‘discipline’ I think it’s the ‘discipline’ of a big endorsement deal payday.

I honestly can’t understand the drive and total obsession with their ‘sports’ that in many cases causes them to forsake everything else. I just don’t think many of the glamor Olympians of today are anything like what came before. The only way I can describe it is elitism.


20 posted on 08/18/2016 8:50:24 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

” I just don’t think many of the glamor Olympians of today are anything like what came before. The only way I can describe it is elitism.”

The Olympic Ideal died when they abandoned the principle of amateurism.


36 posted on 08/18/2016 9:16:25 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Gaffer

They don’t even shake hands on the podium anymore.
Never mind getting on the gold level to take picture together.
Rather take a selfie. What a sad world...


53 posted on 08/18/2016 10:12:08 AM PDT by WhatWhyWhom
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