It's been reported that the British Olympic Association hasn't got enough money to fund the GB team at next year's Olympic games.
Apparently, the BOA intends supporting around 550 assorted athletes and 450 hangers-on, providing training advice, medical assistance and a 'holding camp'. Can anyone please explain why all this is necessary ? In the good old days, when the Olympics was an amateur event, there were no such expensive facilities; now, when many top competitors are paid huge amounts, we are expected to subsidise them further and provide vast support networks.
This is utterly idiotic. Over the years, the Olympic Games have simply become an enormous political jamboree and no longer have anything to do with the Olympian ideals on which they were established. Stop this nonsense, now.
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