The Olympics: angle, politics.

[kitler53]

SamuelRSmith said:
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•  It's turned the competition of the world's best athletes into a nationalistic stomping ground. Achievements are not considered personal, but are attributed to nations, as a whole. As if I've had anything to do with anybody who wins a medal. I haven't, and I don't deserve any credit for it.

 

how has athletes ever been different?  not only were the olympics created for this reason specifically, when the packers won the superbowl i immediatly became a better person then my illinois native collegues.  that's half the point in having an althetics program...

and lolz if you think no one reconizes their personal achievements.  phelps is celebrated like a god here now-a-days.