>>>>Next time, the Olympics should be carried out on the Moon. No reports of serious human rights violations from there, so far!
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>>>Maybe the world should just agree on some neutral ground - an island somewhere that enjoys all four seasons and has both rivers, lakes, and mountains for winter sports. They can be held there forever... :o)
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>>>Now, which country gets the travel rights, phone, food, lodging, security? Hmmm, time to privatize the UN? :o) Or we just give it to the Swiss...
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>>Its should be permanently in Greece.
>OK
>
>And it should be just the classic track and field events in a stadium plus a marathon.
>No! We can't lose the gymnastics!
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> And no national flags and medal tables.
>OK
>
>Plus they should be genuine amateurs.
>EXACTLY I agree. How did Venus and Serena qualify?


Ok you can have the gymnastics as long as they do it in the stadium.

I'd rather watch not so good athlete who was an interesting person with interests and work outside sport. This year I managed to watch 0 hours and 0 minutes of the olympics.
The BBC here has a show every year called Sports Personality of the Year.This is an oxymoron.