Olympic games should be abolished

[Altitude]

As far as I know, the Olympic Games lose money despite all the merchandising, since the games use tax payers money they should be abolished or downsized to a more manageable level.

This money waste happens only in case of country's without proper infrastructure.
Unfortunately this is what is happening most of the time...
Why bother throwing Olympics in highly developed area with all the stadiums
and hotels when you can organise it in 3rd word? Wasting tremendous amount of cash on unfair public deals and auctions. Its really beyond me, the IOC is basically promoting corruption and fraud in weaker areas of our planet. This is what needs to be abolished.

Well, the London 2012 games lost money, if my memory does not fail me, so the games are too expensive even for the first world countries, because of that I mantain my position, don't host the games or the games need to become smaller.

they all lose money its considered an honor to have them

[Shinpako09]

Abolish the Olympics because they are "like war with the guns", really? Isn't that a good thing when every country takes part in something, competing with each other, sharing a bond and brotherhood thru it all? All that without killing each other. But I could agree to abolish it for different reasons because of the politics behind it and it is wasting tax payers' money.

Dude he said without a guns not with guns.

Well, that is olympics they are not representing their ownself. They are playing to represent their country more than their self. If its like a war for you then that was the good war ive seen since there are no killing happening and with entertainment/fun.

[just_Alice]

They're like war, really. Only without guns. Sport isn't nation against nation, it's athletes against other athletes. Let the best guys win, and let's forget the stupid, stinking, blood-tainted flags behind them.

I give you my 100% agreement, in my opinion it is more like Gladiator fights, not the wars, but still, it is far from civilisation.

[mOgliE]

No but Olympic commission should be abolished. They make millions thanks to the games then let the cities pay the bills...

[mOgliE]

As far as I know, the Olympic Games lose money despite all the merchandising, since the games use tax payers money they should be abolished or downsized to a more manageable level.

This money waste happens only in case of country's without proper infrastructure.
Unfortunately this is what is happening most of the time...
Why bother throwing Olympics in highly developed area with all the stadiums
and hotels when you can organise it in 3rd word? Wasting tremendous amount of cash on unfair public deals and auctions. Its really beyond me, the IOC is basically promoting corruption and fraud in weaker areas of our planet. This is what needs to be abolished.

Indeed fact no, they always lose money because Olympic commission keeps the profit and give only a small budget to the city welcoming the games. But it's only because they're assholes, on overwhole it makes huge profit!

[Hirose UK]

They're like war, really. Only without guns. Sport isn't nation against nation, it's athletes against other athletes. Let the best guys win, and let's forget the stupid, stinking, blood-tainted flags behind them.

yeah, I agree. they're like war, there will be the winner and the loser, but it's kind of peace war. we don't need to fight physically (except karate and kind of thing), but we fight based on the rules.

but sometimes this game grows kind of anger when someone doesn't win, and they will come back in the next competition to revenge 

[mindrust]

Of course they are like war. Everyone is at war at the moment. You buy Bitcoin, you support bitcoin against the other currencies in the war. You buy coca-cola, you are in a war with pepsi. You support Realmadrid, you support their cause against Barcelona. Russia wins a golden, they won a battle against USA.

[zenitzz]

Olympics don't need to be removed and it was not the war just a competition between countries although it held only for an advertising campaign of a country with indirectly.

[BADecker]

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they all lose money its considered an honor to have them

Have you ever gone to an Olympic game? Don't, and you will have abolished them for yourself. Let others be free to do what they want.

[yuiyuga]

Cancel the Olympic Games, this is complete nonsense! Why cancel the Olympic Games? Olympic Games provide an opportunity to compete for people without arms. Other people, when they watch the Olympics, get a lot of positive emotions.

[countryfree]

If nationalism is not important then why did your country fight back, why not just give up and let the invading army take over?

They're all the same. Soldiers, athletes and supporters at the olympics not because they like sport, but only for their country's glory.

And you base this statement on what facts?  Surely people become interested in sport and dedicate their lives to it to reach that level because they love their chosen sport and not some "countries glory"

My country didn't fight back, I was a foreigner working there, and as a witness, I've seen plenty of people fighting, killing and dying because of nationalism. And it keeps on going in several places in the world...

Those playing at the olympics have chosen to represent a country. Sports doesn't ask you that. At the end of the show, each country will count its medals and most will forget the very real people who got them. The winners will be countries. Real sports doesn't involve countries, I gave earlier the example of tennis at Wimbledon, that's real sports.

[joshvette001]

If they banned any athletes then we would not know what their potential would of been in the games. That is a pity to say the least.

[countryfree]

If they banned any athletes then we would not know what their potential would of been in the games. That is a pity to say the least.

That's my wish. I don't want to see athletes competing at the olympics in front of their country's flag, I want to see them competing against each other, without anyone knowing the citizenship of the others. Sports without politics...

[nova-rider]

What a strange sight here.

[wxa7115]

As far as I know, the Olympic Games lose money despite all the merchandising, since the games use tax payers money they should be abolished or downsized to a more manageable level.

This money waste happens only in case of country's without proper infrastructure.
Unfortunately this is what is happening most of the time...
Why bother throwing Olympics in highly developed area with all the stadiums
and hotels when you can organise it in 3rd word? Wasting tremendous amount of cash on unfair public deals and auctions. Its really beyond me, the IOC is basically promoting corruption and fraud in weaker areas of our planet. This is what needs to be abolished.

Well, the London 2012 games lost money, if my memory does not fail me, so the games are too expensive even for the first world countries, because of that I mantain my position, don't host the games or the games need to become smaller.

they all lose money its considered an honor to have them

I get what you mean, but it doesn’t change the fact that the games should be profitable, they are not using private funds, they are using the taxpayer’s money, in fact there were a lot of protests in Brazil because people thought, with good reason, that money could have been used for better things.

[Sithara007]

Once we remove the politics from Olympics, everything will be fine. It is the political interference which is destroying the Olympics.

[wxa7115]

Once we remove the politics from Olympics, everything will be fine. It is the political interference which is destroying the Olympics.

This is also a problem, some countries use the Olympic Games in order to send some kind of political message, in the past there were boycotts and that kind of stuff and that turned off my interest in the games.

[countryfree]

Once we remove the politics from Olympics, everything will be fine. It is the political interference which is destroying the Olympics.

Thanks, I like to see I'm not the only one. What unites all of us here is BTC, which doesn't have any kind of link to any country or nation. Sports should be like that too, just like everything else.

[popcorn1]

If they banned any athletes then we would not know what their potential would of been in the games. That is a pity to say the least.

That's my wish. I don't want to see athletes competing at the olympics in front of their country's flag, I want to see them competing against each other, without anyone knowing the citizenship of the others. Sports without politics...

It's first about yourself then your country..
To be the best in the whole world at what you do in your chosen sport..
Now imagine no countries.. Athletes raced with no flag..

Say a guy from Italy always won and a guy from Britain always comes fourth..The guy from Italy because of no nation will always have the support..
Now because the guy from Britain who always comes fourth will be the best in his nation he will get support other wise he will get no support..

No adverts in is nation no sponsor's no one would care only for the winner..
When it's for your nation then your nation cares no matter how good you are..

So if we done it your way not much money would float around the sport world..
Like sponsors from big businesses for the athletes to do it full time to be the best at what they do..

Athletes try to be the best to make themselves RICH Get paid fast..
Not working for 50 years in a dead end job for 35k a year scraping by..Be famous and get rich quick..THEN YOUR COUNTRY 

[markj113]

Athletes also do not make it to the Olympics on their own.

Many have have been talent spotted at a young age then taken through various state funded training programs at state funded facilities.

They are there through a team effort with large a support group group behind them.