Does it have one?
Do you care?
Should you care?
Why don't you care?
If you do care, why do you care?
My first memories of the Olympics are grainy BBC B&W pictures from Melbourne in 1956. All I can remember is the name Dawn Frazer and being fascinated by the pole vault...I still am really, but mainly the Women's Competition, but that's by the by.
As TV grew, so did the Games - or was it the other way around.
As the Games grew, so did the drugs - or was that the other way around too
The other constant seems to be the ever Increasing cost of staging the Games.
Montreal nearly went broke ( technically may have done ) staging the 76 games - it took them 30 yrs. to pay it off
That frightened everybody so much that in effect L.A. were the only city to bid for the 84 games.
30+ years on, more Cities are baling out of their applications that want it. The next undecided Winter games are down to 2; Almaty ( look it up, I had to ) and Beijing.
We have the usual tales of 'It won't be all right on the night' for Rio...one day, perhaps this year, these tales will turn out not only to be true, but vastly under estimated...If the muggers don't get you, the terrorists or zika virus will.
Purely from my own view I get the feeling the general public are getting turned off by the whole drugs thing - why watch 'xxxx' or 'yyyyyy' when all it is, is a contest between teams to see who has the best Chemists.
This years TV figures may make for Interesting reading...and once the money goes??
Anyway that my take on it - What do you think?
Do you care?
Should you care?
Why don't you care?
If you do care, why do you care?
My first memories of the Olympics are grainy BBC B&W pictures from Melbourne in 1956. All I can remember is the name Dawn Frazer and being fascinated by the pole vault...I still am really, but mainly the Women's Competition, but that's by the by.
As TV grew, so did the Games - or was it the other way around.
As the Games grew, so did the drugs - or was that the other way around too
The other constant seems to be the ever Increasing cost of staging the Games.
Montreal nearly went broke ( technically may have done ) staging the 76 games - it took them 30 yrs. to pay it off
That frightened everybody so much that in effect L.A. were the only city to bid for the 84 games.
30+ years on, more Cities are baling out of their applications that want it. The next undecided Winter games are down to 2; Almaty ( look it up, I had to ) and Beijing.
We have the usual tales of 'It won't be all right on the night' for Rio...one day, perhaps this year, these tales will turn out not only to be true, but vastly under estimated...If the muggers don't get you, the terrorists or zika virus will.
Purely from my own view I get the feeling the general public are getting turned off by the whole drugs thing - why watch 'xxxx' or 'yyyyyy' when all it is, is a contest between teams to see who has the best Chemists.
This years TV figures may make for Interesting reading...and once the money goes??
Anyway that my take on it - What do you think?
