Ideally, yes. I'm not saying that we should award physical capability with hoards of cash as an incentive (although in sports entertainment we do), but to have a shot at being on the podium at these levels, competing against people that are doping, you need multiple coaches, nutritionists and physicians to ensure your health and safety and that doesn't come cheap on top of general living and travel expenses.
Re:Olympics Ban on Personal Hotspots
by freehunter on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @01:22PM
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That's the argument I'm getting at. If it takes money to get into the Olympics, the Games have already been lost.
The original spirit was a few Greek men running around naked to show that they were racially superior to all other peoples.
The rest of the Olympic 'traditions' were invented at the 1936 games for not-dissimilar reasons.
Crass commercialisation is probably the "nice side" of the olympics.
The Olympic games is no different from Christmas: there were good intentions when it was started, but it has devolved into commercialism and a bastardization of what the original spirit was.