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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Olympian Arrogance

A timely op-ed in the New York Times on what the Olympic games are about, beyond medals and athletic prowess: corporate profit, security build-up and gentrification.We have added pictures,some hyper-links and background info.

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Olympian Arrogance
By JULES BOYKOFF and ALAN TOMLINSON
Published: July 4, 2012
WHILE Europe roils in economic turmoil, London is preparing for a lavish jamboree of international good will: in a few weeks, the city will host the 2012 Summer Olympics.
But behind the spectacle of athletic prowess and global harmony, brass-knuckle politics and brute economics reign. At this nexus sits the International Olympic Committee, which promotes the games and decides where they will be held. Though the I.O.C. has been periodically tarnished by scandal — usually involving the bribing and illegitimate wooing of delegates — those embarrassments divert us from a deeper problem: the organization is elitist, domineering and crassly commercial at its core.

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