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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by mamon on Friday May 04, 2018 @07:58AM (#16993836)
>> in football/soccer the Fifa World Cup is considered more prestigious than the Olympics

That has nothing to do with number of viewers though. It is just a dirty trick from FIFA to eliminate competition: national teams in Olympics are junior (U-23) teams because FIFA does not allow senior teams to participate.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by Moodles on Friday May 04, 2018 @08:59AM (#16994215)
Didn't know that. That's weird.
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