I hate to admit this, but I know and care very little about the Olympics. I've long been of the opinion that it's frankly impossible to have genuine competition between athletes from all over the world, what with some countries basically raising potential medal winners on special farms and filling them full of all sorts of junk, and countries like the US finding it impossible to compete at all without emulating that sort of thing, one way or another. And of course the Olympics is run by and for the governments of the countries involved, and is therefore pretty distant from any actual athletic ideals. Indeed, it seems that political correctness is more important than athletics, what with what happened to Voula Papachristou. But it's of great interest to see what kind of show the governments put on, and what they seem to be trying to say. Sean Gabb looks at how it all went down in Old Blighty: (Go to his own site for another picture of the Queen.)
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I quit watching the Olympics years ago. I consider most of it a fraud.
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