Re: BBC's Dire Coverage of the Thames Flotilla and other Jubillee Events
"chrisjbrady@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:
BBC's Dire Coverage of the Thames Flotilla and other Jubillee Events
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We are also concerned that the Olympics will be likewise dumbed down.
The Olympics is sport. It can't be dumbed down, sport is as dumb as
anything gets.
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
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Relevant Pages
- Re: THE BUSINESS OF SPORT
... The Olympics, it is not about winning or losing, but about taking ... Fun, games and money ... EVEN in China, a century is a long time to wait. ... festival of sport and international friendship. ...
(soc.culture.china) - Re: Closing the Thames in 2012
... Olympics. ... If those costs are known, ... internation "sporting" contest of any kind whatsoever. ... existence of national teams at any "sport" abhorrent. ...
(rec.sport.rowing) - Re: Dry-land rowing for Beijing 2008?
... Now we see the escalating costs & increasingly stark environmental problems that will afflict London 2012 (where rowing kept its nose a bit clean by swiftly decamping to Dorney). ... Funding for grass-roots sport is being cut as money is siphoned off to create this 2-week splurge for a few thousand pro & semi-pro sports-persons & for God knows how many official hangers-on. ... Now we learn that no one may drive to or near the 2012 Olympics except, of course, those lovely folk from the "Olympic Family" whose relationship with athleticism is so remote that they can't be expected to walk, bike or climb onto a bus like common folk & whose familiarity with the rest of the human race is so slight that they'd hate to have to rub shoulders with mere mortals. ...
(rec.sport.rowing) - Re: Historionics
... But they may have more luck with the Olympics, ... courts and gymnasia, swimming pools, archery butts, handball courts, ... Nothing will be done to enable people to try a sport to see if they like ... Public tennis courts and bowling greens will ...
(uk.media.radio.archers) - Re: Sport dropped from Olympics
... Olympic Committee is interested in putting on mass-market sports ... nation in college basketball. ... Tennis doubles in the olympics is a stupid ... it was the only sport that did not sell ...
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