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Old 04-07-2008, 11:28 PM   #34 (permalink)
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The Olympics is just an industry... much like baseball, but not so well organized or governed mathematically. All this "bringing the world together" at the games is just the sales pitch.
This is just not true. There are many, many small countries that can only afford to send one or maybe two athletes that have achieved at least the minimum requirements to this competition.

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Tell you what. When there's a Tibetan Jesse Owens kickin' the communist government sponsered athletes' ass then it'll mean something. other than that it's just a PR handjob to dupe the world into letting communist China's human rights abuses slide.
This is such a silly statement. It belittles Jesse Owens' accomplishments. This statement might have been said before J.O. by just replacing his name with another national hero from the past.

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