Olympics..a view

NervexProf

Do you think that admitting full time professionals to the Olympic Games is a backward step?

The President of the IOC seems a guy in tune with aspirant competitors - see here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 460442.ece

richa

Nope.

I want to watch elite sport. That generally requires the athelite to recieve funding of some sort.

idaviesmoore

:? I sort of miss the point of the article. What is the author trying to say?....sorry for being a bit dim :?

synchronicity

why?

we want to see the best of the best... so long as they're not doping.

spen666

was this not a debate for 10-20 years ago?

you can't put the genie back in the bottle -can you?

NervexProf

spen666 wrote:

was this not a debate for 10-20 years ago?

you can't put the genie back in the bottle -can you?

Chuckle..we can put the Mighty Spen back in the Soapbox bottle tho' !

SunWuKong

IOC is all about the $. Being paid to change final schedule times and the like. The whole 'Olympic ideal' thing makes me laugh.

sicrow

SunWuKong wrote:

IOC is all about the $. Being paid to change final schedule times and the like. The whole 'Olympic ideal' thing makes me laugh.

yes true its a corpoate event all about money so if you want the big sponsors and media revenue then you need big names in sport so out goes toe wrestling etc - the big stars in all sports are now paid professionals (take the slave Ronaldo) so you will never get back to the IOC ideal when money governs

personally I'd rather watch paid professionals anyway, I want to watch the highest standard

spen666

NervexProf wrote:

spen666 wrote:

was this not a debate for 10-20 years ago?

you can't put the genie back in the bottle -can you?

Chuckle..we can put the Mighty Spen back in the Soapbox bottle tho' !

I would prefer it to be an amateur event ( not the organisation- the competitors) but you can't turn the clock back now