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The modern Olympic Games are destroying themselves with events that require judged scores. In order to save itself the International Olympic Committee should take steps to remove all events involving acrobats doing tricks from the games. The circus is dying in all civilized countries but it is absurdly reappearing in the Olympic Games. Any event that involves judges holding up scorecards should be taken out of both the summer and winter Olympics in order to preserve the pure nature of sport and to honor “real” athletes.
The modern Olympics were revived in 1896 and held in Athens Greece where the games originated in antiquity. An unfortunate mistake was made by allowing circus events like gymnastics into the games where judges issued a score for performance. Circus events like figure skating and gymnastics should be immediately removed from the winter and summer Olympic Games because they involve acrobats doing tricks not athletes participating in events where a clear winner is determined by results not opinion.
The infested commercialism of the modern Olympic Games has subverted the intent of competition by and for athletes into a global American-Idol mindset that demeans the spirit of the games and turns it into the circus of show business. Kids flipping around on snowboards reduce the games to a ridiculous revival of the old Ed Sullivan Show where people would run onto the stage spinning plates on the tops of poles.
The modern Olympic Games are becoming a variety show of kids doing tricks instead of real athletes participating in real events, especially endurance events that were the heart of the original Olympics. Past Olympic marathon competitors have got to be absolutely appalled at the cheapened direction the modern Olympics have headed in.
Acrobats getting good scores based on cuteness make great television but what’s next?-Olympic juggling? The only things missing in the modern Olympic Games are the elephants, tigers and clowns.
Both the summer and winter Olympics can be saved by abolishing all events that require judging so we can get back to the original purpose of the games which was for athletes not acrobats. Don’t hold your breath. Commercial advertisers will never allow this to happen because they can make millions on the cuteness of gymnasts and very little on the un-cuteness of track athletes who jump into a bobsled and hurtle down an icy hill at 100 mph.
Most of us got sick of Ed Sullivan years ago.
The modern Olympics were revived in 1896 and held in Athens Greece where the games originated in antiquity. An unfortunate mistake was made by allowing circus events like gymnastics into the games where judges issued a score for performance. Circus events like figure skating and gymnastics should be immediately removed from the winter and summer Olympic Games because they involve acrobats doing tricks not athletes participating in events where a clear winner is determined by results not opinion.
The infested commercialism of the modern Olympic Games has subverted the intent of competition by and for athletes into a global American-Idol mindset that demeans the spirit of the games and turns it into the circus of show business. Kids flipping around on snowboards reduce the games to a ridiculous revival of the old Ed Sullivan Show where people would run onto the stage spinning plates on the tops of poles.
The modern Olympic Games are becoming a variety show of kids doing tricks instead of real athletes participating in real events, especially endurance events that were the heart of the original Olympics. Past Olympic marathon competitors have got to be absolutely appalled at the cheapened direction the modern Olympics have headed in.
Acrobats getting good scores based on cuteness make great television but what’s next?-Olympic juggling? The only things missing in the modern Olympic Games are the elephants, tigers and clowns.
Both the summer and winter Olympics can be saved by abolishing all events that require judging so we can get back to the original purpose of the games which was for athletes not acrobats. Don’t hold your breath. Commercial advertisers will never allow this to happen because they can make millions on the cuteness of gymnasts and very little on the un-cuteness of track athletes who jump into a bobsled and hurtle down an icy hill at 100 mph.
Most of us got sick of Ed Sullivan years ago.
