Conquer Club

riskllama wrote:I enjoy Olympic ice hockey.

DoomYoshi wrote:Is amateur sport a good thing?

riskllama wrote:I enjoy Olympic ice hockey.

ConfederateSS wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:Is amateur sport a good thing?

-----Parents today use sports programs as BABYSITTERS...Like gymnastics....etc.etc...
-----Now unless you have a kid ...You are most likely not watching.....Middle/High school or College kids are good enough if non pro's are your game....

WingCmdr Ginkapo wrote:The London Olympics has been used to regenerate a large area of London.

The Rio Olympics have been used to construct vital infrastructure.

The Athens olympics were used to create arenas which were locked and unused once the games were over.

Dukasaur wrote:I'm a lot more excited about the upcoming Conquer Club Olympics.

Dukasaur wrote:I'm a lot more excited about the upcoming Conquer Club Olympics.

betiko wrote:olympic games are shit.
people who enjoy watching olympic games shouldn't be aloowed to breathe.

IcePack wrote:

betiko wrote:olympic games are the shit.
people who don't enjoy watching olympic games shouldn't be aloowed to breathe.

Fixed!

Brazil is part of the developing world, and the Olympic movement has done absolutely the right thing by coming here. Indeed, the Games should get out more often.

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Sydneysiders can remember their relief and joy when the 2000 Games went off so well; can they also remember the perfectionist mass neurosis that preceded them, the fear that the world would judge us badly if a train had to wait more than a minute between Strathfield and Lidcombe?

Here in Brazil, workmen with cigarettes dangling from their lips are still wandering about with pieces of galvanised fence looking for somewhere to erect them or taking them home for resale. Bags of rubbish, like luggage at Latin American airports, are waiting on roadsides to be claimed. The logistics are not running on sleek rails.

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The Olympics have only dipped their toe into a developing-world democracy once before, going to Mexico City in 1968. Aside from ventures into authoritarian China and post-economic miracle South Korea, the Games have been hard to coax out of their first-world bubble.

They have never been to India or Indonesia or the Philippines, nor to the Middle East. Africa and the Caribbean have been over-represented in great achievements in the Olympic arena but untrusted as hosts. Australia has had the Games twice, but areas representing two-thirds of the world's population have not had them at all.

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The Olympics would be struggling for relevance if they didn't come to Brazil.

Withdrawals by basketball, tennis and golf superstars are not a blow to the Games, but just what they needed. The prospect of Brazil, where control-obsessed celebrity sportspeople could only envisage the potential for chaos and disease, sorted the sheep from the goats.

The uncommitted stayed away, as is their right, and the participants have been whittled back to those who should be here: athletes for whom this is the one big chance, the quadrennial dream. Far from weakening the Olympics, the absence of all those day-in, day-out professionals has purified the event. Those who are here, want to be here.

If the Western world wants to hold its nose, the carioca response is not to try too hard. Which is refreshing.

Outside the bubble, partner-sponsors are not chewing up the landscape. On the surface, these appear to be the least-choreographed, least-corporate, least-commercialised, least-desperate-to-please Olympics in recent memory.

Some might think that is a sign of decline, but it is also a sign of the Games reaching into the world where people live.

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The Brazil of 2016 is not what was anticipated and the economic legacy of holding an Olympic Games has been over-sold (when has it not?); but the Games and the athletes will be a success if they embrace the fact that this is where a serious global movement should be coming, and if every detail does not go to plan, a surprise needn't be an unpleasant one.

DoomYoshi wrote:The Men's Bicycle Road Race was pretty awesome today.

riskllama wrote:2 words : Michelle Jenneke

WingCmdr Ginkapo wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:The Men's Bicycle Road Race was pretty awesome today.

Disgruntled Brit here. So close.