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Clean Sport
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(12-17-2019, 10:00 AM)capcom link Wrote:Bit unrealistic I gotta say.

However, the cronyism, coverage rights and kickbacks worry me a lot.  I was HEAVILY involved in the SOCOG torch relay and it was staggering in its complexity.

There have been some very ordinary games over the years and some great moments as well.  Yet the cost is enormous. 

I sure hope BNE doesn't get them

Oh I know it won't happen.
It's just what I'd do.
Over the years it's turned into an abomination.
There will always be great individual performances but alongside that  are boycotts, massacres and other incidents directly linked to national conflicts (Hungary v USSR in the water polo in Melbourne).
State controlled doping has long been a part of the competition but equally there are many examples of individual doping offences that put huge question marks over the results of many events.
The State controlled doping has at its roots an effort to produce results that reflect on a country or its system of government as being superior to other nations.
I've a fifty year involvement in Track and Field.
Have a look at the women's world record list and take note of the number of world records set in the 1980s.
That some of these records still stand and are recognised is a disgrace and the young 'clean' women who have gone close in subsequent years should feel very angry that they've been robbed of world marks they should rightly possess.

As the OP rightly points out though, it is difficult to know just who in the past has competed 'clean'
I suspect in some Olympic 100 metre men's finals you may have to go well down the list of finalists to find the 'real winner'.
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Clean Sport - by LP - 12-17-2019, 05:23 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by Lods - 12-17-2019, 05:59 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by capcom - 12-17-2019, 10:00 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by Lods - 12-17-2019, 11:40 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by Thryleon - 12-17-2019, 11:56 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by DJC - 12-18-2019, 12:15 PM
Re: Clean Sport - by cookie2 - 12-18-2019, 10:41 PM
Re: Clean Sport - by DJC - 12-19-2019, 11:14 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by LP - 12-19-2019, 11:19 PM
Re: Clean Sport - by cookie2 - 12-20-2019, 01:00 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by DJC - 12-20-2019, 01:02 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by sandsmere - 12-20-2019, 02:38 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by cookie2 - 12-20-2019, 03:25 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by LP - 12-20-2019, 05:13 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by Lods - 12-20-2019, 05:45 AM
Re: Clean Sport - by DJC - 12-20-2019, 08:23 AM

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