The Olympics of 2012 are much different then the 1948 London games held immediately after World War II Old men have supplanted younger athletes and professional millionaires have replaced amateurs on the USA basketball team, swim teams and in track and field. . . Michael Phelps wasn't even on the 1948 team. . . . One thing that hasn't changed is when a US athlete wins the gold and stands of the platform they play the same old scratched record of the Star Spangle Banner that has been played since the days of the great Jessie Owens during the Hitler games of 1936. . . . How about NBC prime time coverage? Turn in at 8 and you get sex better known as women's beach volleyball or an exciting quarter final water polo game while most of the audience is waiting for the gymnastics, swimming and track and field coverage that is dragged out until midnight so they can get those all important ratings . . . With high unemployment I guess they figure nobody has to go to work the next day. . .Would you allow your daughter to stay in the Olympic Village if you knew the USA basketball team was also there? . . . The Rio games in 2016 will be the last games of this modern area.
Homer Sweeney
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