>>>>Moving away from doping, how about throwing? As in deliberetly throwing matches?
>>>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444226904577562112515755348.html
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>>>Very un-Olympian, I'm glad they got booted.
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>>>OTOH it's good to see some aspects of the Olympics are 100% reliable: "Still, Locog and the IOC both said tickets to the Tuesday matches wouldn't be refunded."
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>>They should be embarrassed. Of course, Olympic committee potentates long ago proved themselves incapable of embarrassment. If you saw their compensation packages or travel arrangements it would make you sick to your stomach. Wouldn't that money be better spent on development programs for young athletes?
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>I pass through the West end of London every morning at the moment and see the limousines parked up with the rather haggard looking Olympic potentates being loaded into them. Most look like they've ever done much more than jog to the bar.

So true. There was a good cartoon in The New Yorker recently (as there always is, or a dozen of them) with a flabby guy sitting on the examination table in a doctor's office. "Is there any history of exercise in your family?" the doctor asks him.