With 'Rule 40,' Greedy IOC Shows It Cares More About Its Sponsors Than Olympic Athletes - SBNation.com by the British historian #LordActon: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute #power #corrupts absolutely ...especially when it comes to those managing the bread and circuses designed and manifested to distract the slaves... &neo &neo 2014-02-05 21:08:22 |
With 'Rule 40,' Greedy IOC Shows It Cares More About Its Sponsors Than Olympic Athletes You can either have the best #athletes in the world or you can have amateurism, but you can't have it both ways. The #IOC is not only trying to have it both ways, but they are profiting off of what has become a $6 billion industry on the backs of the athletes, who essentially compete for free. The #Olympics have some of the same stringent rules regarding pre-publication of the #architecture by the actual #architect. &Rob 2014-02-05 20:30:35 |