Olympic Events

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

I can't respond to this without sounding melodramatic and affected so I will simply say that i think it's a shame that an event with traditions that date back so far is being so, well..... changed.

It has been changing for a long time. The olympics are probably the original sporting event that featured widespead abuse of performance enhancing drugs (See virtually all Soviet Bloc athletes from 60's till fall of Berlin Wall), was one of the first to have an active doping scandal while in session (Ben Johnson), has had terrorist murders, boycotts, questions of gender problems, corrupt judging, bribery scandals, match fixing, overt racism and a lengthy list of questionable practices with sorid details too long to list. Other than that and those mega rich NBA guys it is a pure display of sport.