“Not yours.”
More thoughts on the hypocrisy and appeasement of the IOC from Ilya Somin.
Like the UN, I wouldn’t shed a tear if the IOC and the Olympics themselves disappeared from the planet.
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his hands were tied by admission of 46 Arab and Muslim members to the IOC.
I wonder if any of the usual suspects will check in here to inveigh against that lovely Kinsey gaffe. I mean, what the hell does Islam have to do with holding a moment of silence over a mass murder?
I’m sure London was just trying to be non-political. I hear their opening ceremony was a tribute to all things British. Couldn’t they have provided a two-minutes-hate for all their Arab and Muslim guests? Nope? Better to stage a 3-hour extravaganza of dancing nurses and kids jumping on beds to honor the National Health Service.
Does anyone know if they provided barf bags?
The UN and the IOC can both go to hell. Yesterday. They’re equally useless, and equally egregious. 🙁
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
The IOC does seem to embody all the more unpleasant characteristics of the UN distilled into one organization. I suppose someone has already suggested making the IOC a branch of the UN.
As a kid I was occasionally perplexed by references to “the Olympic movement.” To me even back then a movement was about activism of some kind, creating change. By the time I was aware of the Olympics they’d been through two world wars — and most of a simmering third with acts of terrorism.
I don’t know what word I would have used to describe the Olympics in those days, but I’ve long since concluded it’s less a movement than an establishment. Which puts me uncomfortably close in attitude to the nanny-client “anarchists” protesting the “corporate” Olympics in London.
Whom gods destroy, they first make devour their own sanity in desperation for something to do.
There was a good op-ed in the Wall Street Journal the other day, about the self-congratulatory kumbaya bullshit surrounding the Olympics: Olympic Ideals Don’t Match Reality
I didn’t watch the opening ceremony, but I found this review via a link at Ace of Spades: An Olympic Nightmare
“Happy Hunger Games!”
The olympics are fun to watch and also serve as a way to preserve sports that no one plays anymore. A little chest pounding in support of your country is a good thing.
I wasn’t aware that the UN shed a tear over anything…grammar alert.. 😉
Other than the athletes OBVIOUSLY pulling for their own teams, I doubt many of them think, “…how can I boost my country’s political agenda with this next shot…jump…stroke…swim…dive…etc.
Even the NK and Cuban athletes are most likely paying attention to the SPORT at hand during their event, than they are to the political possibilities or propaganda opportunities.