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2004-08-05 International-UN-NGOs

New Olympics Corruption Skeleton Unearthed

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Posted by Zenster 2004-08-05 3:14:03 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You see, this is what you get when you engender a culture of probity and honesty: lousy bribers. The slovenly and the crooked have a natural advantage in the global community when it comes to duking it out for the plum international prizes. If the Swedish didn't already *have* the Nobel Prizes, they'd be pretty much SOL.

Swedes of corrupt intentions, you must be proactive. You cannot allow Sweden to fall behind in the vital global bribery industry. Your international reputation cannot survive a kickback gap!

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-08-05 4:37:25 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-05 4:37:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Incidentally, am I the only one who's regretting that the 2004 Olympics weren't in the efficient and no-nonsense hands of Scandinavian bureaucrats, rather than the highly erratic and palsied hands of modern Greeks?

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-08-05 4:40:11 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-05 4:40:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't the IOC complain about the lack of prostitutes in Utah? I seem to recall some sort of problem they had along those lines.

Posted by Silentbrick 2004-08-05 5:26:39 PM|| 2004-08-05 5:26:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Mitch, no offense, but American hands were the ones that helped create in Atlanta one of the worst Olympics in modern history.
1996 Summer Olympics

Centennial Olympic Park bombing

As yet it's too soon to tell what Greek hands will turn out to have created.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-08-05 8:02:14 PM|| 2004-08-05 8:02:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Speak for yourself, Katsaris--those Olympics were OK, Eric Rudolph notwithstanding.
Whereas Athens has already had several bombs go off as well as other *problems* and the Games haven't even started yet!
(The worse Olympics will always be Munich '72 and Berlin '36.)

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-08-05 8:39:39 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-08-05 8:39:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Aris, to be strictly honest, I couldn't give less of a damn about American sports swaggering. It's not something I take seriously. Security issues are another matter, of course, but the terribly sincere hand-wringing about the betrayal of Olympic ideals - please, give me a break. I think I care more about the suggestion that some ex-Soviet tyrant has bought his way to the presidency of the World Chess Federation.

Hell, I'm in favor of letting Turkmanbashi bribe his way into a 2012 Ashgabat if he can pull it off, provided he not screw over his own people in the fund-raising process too much.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-08-06 12:09:19 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-06 12:09:19 AM|| Front Page Top

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