>>>>>>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!
>>>
>>> And no national flags and medal tables.
>>>OK
>>>
>>>Plus they should be genuine amateurs.
>>>EXACTLY I agree. How did Venus and Serena qualify?
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>>Ok you can have the gymnastics as long as they do it in the stadium.
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>>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.
>PMFJI, but if you don't have equestrian, I will not be watching. :)

Sorry to lose you Beth but no horses, bikes , boats etc

I have a cold today so I'm not feeling very sympathetic :-)