An Alternative to Continue the Chinese Saga of Olympic Shame -- Stop the
Games / IHT

--Micky's humble opinion: This is rare but courageously candid view on
the pathetic true state of the Olympic Games. The way I see it, Olympic
spirit has been lost in the search of profit for years. --

International Herald Tribune

Stop the Games

By Buzz Bissinger
Sunday, April 13, 2008

PHILADELPHIA:

In 1894, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, having refused the military and
political careers typical of a French aristocrat, settled upon the
revival of the Olympic Games as his life's work. He saw sport as a
higher calling, a religion. And he saw the Olympics as an event that
would enhance moral virtue: "May joy and good fellowship reign, and in
this manner, may the Olympic torch pursue its way through ages,
increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a
humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure."