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"Joe Morgan" wrote in message nk.net... Greece is spending many BILLIONS of dollars on the Olympics, and they will be in debt for decades. Los Angeles is still paying for their Olympics 20 years ago! Every four years some nation spends billions for what?? The Olympics are hardly more than a charade. Most of the athletes either were juicing at some point, or still are with advanced masking agents. So what is the point?? Not just of hosting the Olympics, but of supporting these arrogant athletes who never work and must be fed, clothed, and housed year after year?? I'm not sure what country you are troll from, as some countries DO support their athletes for years, but in the United States the athletes are amateurs and they receive no support ( governmental or sponsed ), until they are chosen for the Olympic team and housed in the team facility and that isn't until a few months before the games. As for pay, some do receive grants, either from their states or private groups that donate support to the Olympics as a whole and not to individual athletes. One such company here in the States, Home Depot, supports the U.S. Olympic Committee's Olympic Job Opportunities Program got the spotlight during this year's Games with speed skater Derek Parra's newfound gold medal fame. The program pays a full-time salary and benefits to Olympic hopefuls like gold metal speed skater Derek Parra for working a flexible 20-hour work week which gives them time them to train and travel to competitions. Home Depot has employed 283 athletes since it started the program in 1992. Hundreds of Millions of dollars are spent in the USA just housing these illiterate scumbags. WHY??? What for?? Who cares about any of the stupid records that they compete for??? Is it worth spending so much money?? Illiterate scumbags? Oh, you mean like five-time gold medal speed skater Eric Heiden, who is now an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California, Davis? Stanford University graduate, Nicole Freedman who competed in the Sydney games? Shelly Looney was attending Northwestern University while becoming a member of the winning women's hockey team in the 1998 winter games? Jeremy Scott, a graduate of Allegheny College, who is competeing in the Men's Track and Field or fellow colege mate Emily Deering who is competing in the Lacrosse competion? Nothing but a bunch of illiterate scumbags to be sure. ALL THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS could be spent on education of children, instead of supporting jocks. I think that the OLYMPICS are a totally wasteful by-product of the past. They are a dinosaur, and they need to be scaled back to their original size. Synchronized Swimming? Ballroom Dancing? etc.?? It is not only that 35% of the events are not even SPORTS, but these folks participating are all getting a free ride on the TAXPAYER! Your Tax Dollar is paying for all this. You are buying them their vitamins, their protein shakes, their Creatine, and their steroids. Now the state of Utah was accused and is currently under investigation for the federal cost of the 2002 Winter games. Apparently money was used to complete some road projects and to cover "extra security costs" incurred after the 9-11 attacks and those costs are being examined for padding. Beyond driving down that new road, I don't think the athletes got a free ride. Black Knight |
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:31:17 GMT, "Black Knight"
wrote: "Joe Morgan" wrote in message ink.net... Greece is spending many BILLIONS of dollars on the Olympics, and they will be in debt for decades. Los Angeles is still paying for their Olympics 20 years ago! Every four years some nation spends billions for what?? The Olympics are hardly more than a charade. Most of the athletes either were juicing at some point, or still are with advanced masking agents. So what is the point?? Not just of hosting the Olympics, but of supporting these arrogant athletes who never work and must be fed, clothed, and housed year after year?? I'm not sure what country you are troll from, as some countries DO support their athletes for years, but in the United States the athletes are amateurs and they receive no support ( governmental or sponsed ), until they are chosen for the Olympic team and housed in the team facility and that isn't until a few months before the games. As for pay, some do receive grants, either from their states or private groups that donate support to the Olympics as a whole and not to individual athletes. One such company here in the States, Home Depot, supports the U.S. Olympic Committee's Olympic Job Opportunities Program got the spotlight during this year's Games with speed skater Derek Parra's newfound gold medal fame. The program pays a full-time salary and benefits to Olympic hopefuls like gold metal speed skater Derek Parra for working a flexible 20-hour work week which gives them time them to train and travel to competitions. Home Depot has employed 283 athletes since it started the program in 1992. Hundreds of Millions of dollars are spent in the USA just housing these illiterate scumbags. WHY??? What for?? Who cares about any of the stupid records that they compete for??? Is it worth spending so much money?? Illiterate scumbags? Oh, you mean like five-time gold medal speed skater Eric Heiden, who is now an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California, Davis? Stanford University graduate, Nicole Freedman who competed in the Sydney games? Shelly Looney was attending Northwestern University while becoming a member of the winning women's hockey team in the 1998 winter games? Jeremy Scott, a graduate of Allegheny College, who is competeing in the Men's Track and Field or fellow colege mate Emily Deering who is competing in the Lacrosse competion? Nothing but a bunch of illiterate scumbags to be sure. ALL THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS could be spent on education of children, instead of supporting jocks. I think that the OLYMPICS are a totally wasteful by-product of the past. They are a dinosaur, and they need to be scaled back to their original size. Synchronized Swimming? Ballroom Dancing? etc.?? It is not only that 35% of the events are not even SPORTS, but these folks participating are all getting a free ride on the TAXPAYER! Your Tax Dollar is paying for all this. You are buying them their vitamins, their protein shakes, their Creatine, and their steroids. Now the state of Utah was accused and is currently under investigation for the federal cost of the 2002 Winter games. Apparently money was used to complete some road projects and to cover "extra security costs" incurred after the 9-11 attacks and those costs are being examined for padding. Beyond driving down that new road, I don't think the athletes got a free ride. Black Knight sorry, the post i am replying to was cross-posted too....... Black Night you don't seem to realise that you composed, created (and maybe even edited) a post to a bot, IOW nothing & nobody if you think there is some spam in a NG you frequent then just leave it alone (the spam, not the ng! - this place is great!) you wasted how much time and effort? with your post? FIRST CLUE: the subject line was COMPLETELY off-topic SECOND CLUE: well, er, don't even download the message! |
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"x" wrote in message ... On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:31:17 GMT, "Black Knight" wrote: sorry, the post i am replying to was cross-posted too....... Black Night you don't seem to realise that you composed, created (and maybe even edited) a post to a bot, IOW nothing & nobody if you think there is some spam in a NG you frequent then just leave it alone (the spam, not the ng! - this place is great!) you wasted how much time and effort? with your post? FIRST CLUE: the subject line was COMPLETELY off-topic SECOND CLUE: well, er, don't even download the message! X... thanks for the advice, I appreciate the effort, but many posts in Alt.pro-wrestling.wwf are off topic and sometimes fairly political so the subject line means little. As for how much effort I spent... about 5 minutes, and if that keeps a troll away from APWW because they don't get the flame they expected ( or better, educates someone about a subject they maybe didn't know about like the Olympic athletes ) it was five minutes well spent. But thanks again for trying to warn me off and glad to hear you are enjoying your group! Black Knight |
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