[With apologies for deviating from mathematics]
Gordon Brown and leaders of major political parties of UK have a chance to save the Olympic movement by proposing that, starting from London Olympics of 2012, the Games should be depoliticised:
- That British politicians will give every possible behind-the-scene support to the London Games, but will refrain from attending the Games or any related public events.
- That appropriate British government officials (maybe, even Brown himself) will visit the Beijing during this year Games with a technical mission — as hosts of the next Games — but, again, refrain from attending any public events.
- That all official and public ceremonial functions will be performed by the National Olympic Committee.
- And that organisers of next games (including Winter Games in Russia) are invited to follow this example.
As it has now become common knowledge, Olympic torch ceremonies were invented by the Nazis in 1936:
As I get more and more involved in competitive powerlifting (I have a meet tomorrow in fact) I get to meet more and more serious athletes – indeed, I train with a Commonwealth Games competitor and European gold medallist. Essentially all of them are of the opinion that the Olympics will be an apocalyptic endpoint to sport other than the big televised team ball sports in this country.
By: dr rick on April 12, 2008
at 8:40 pm
Rick – good luck!
By: Alexandre Borovik on April 12, 2008
at 10:14 pm
Thanks. It went ok – in fact I won my class, mostly by being the only person fat enough to be in it :).
By: dr rick on April 14, 2008
at 9:46 pm
It is great! Still, why Apocalypse?
By: Alexandre Borovik on April 14, 2008
at 11:08 pm