Um
August 19th, 2008 Posted in Mundane musings
“Chris Hoy. Well. He almost made Mickael Bourgain in the first race look like a total amateur.”
- BBC Commentator
It’s the Olympics. Isn’t amateur status the whole point?
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August 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am
There’s probably more BBC commentators than amateurs at this Olympics Lionel.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
So how do we account for the tennis players then?
August 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
.. and the footballers.
A fair number of athletes are professional too as the old ‘amateur but has a sponsored trust fund’, ‘gifted soldier in the USSR army’ etc. was getting more difficult to pass off as truly amateur. But I’m not too bothered about this.
There is a lack of consistency though, e.g. boxing not allowing the professionals, and I would personally remove sports for which the “greatest prize” is not an Olympic gold - i.e. tennis and football.
More candidates for exclusion, anybody?
August 20th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Yes but apart from the tennis, the football and the athletics, what have the Romans ever done for us?