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Re:the good news about the Olympics 7 Years, 9 Months ago
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In The Know wrote:
... it all happens AFTER we have gone to bed
No. It's all worked out very well actually.
A lot of main events on when people get home from work.
With excellent highlights programs.
So far - a great Games, with the odd blip which happens in them all.
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Re:the Olympics - can someone please explain ??? 7 Years, 9 Months ago
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Total rubbish from ITK.
Sports have a real place in society - bolstering mind, body and spirit.
Developing self esteem, fitness, teamwork - and even academic ability.
Few our our successful leaders, politicians and business people did not participate - except those caught in war zones, or affected by disability.
With the Paralympics, the latter now succeed, often from a wheelchair...
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Re:the Olympics - can someone please explain ??? 7 Years, 9 Months ago
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Apart from all the other benefits - social, health, self esteem, character building etc. - sport make us money.
www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/policy/pol...-of-sport-and-recrea
To ignore sport in life is as silly as saying Socrates and Plato were 'wasting your life' - as they too were fine athletes.
More recently, Einstein was a fine sailor...
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Re:the Olympics - can someone please explain ??? 7 Years, 8 Months ago
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In The Know wrote:
you are gawping at the telly like a couch potato
Yes - and delighted to be watching the finest athletes in the world.
Participating in nearly 30 different sports.
Like most people on earth, in every country.
4.4 billion watched Beijing; 3.6 billion, London.
Even more than the 2104 World Cup finals - which was only watched by 3.2 billion!
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Re:the Olympics success... 7 Years, 8 Months ago
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Correction.
5 billion watched the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
That is - 7 out of 10, of all humans on earth.
No doubt, some sheep also watched.
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In The Know (as always !)
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Re:the good news about the Olympics 7 Years, 8 Months ago
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... apart from waste our money ?
Can we really justify spending £5.5m per Olympic medal at Rio 2016 while the rest of us slump on the sofa?
Ordinary Brits now do less than 30 minutes of exercise per week - that’s even less than we managed before London hosted the Games in 2012
www.independent.co.uk/voices/rio-2016-te...p-sofa-a7198906.html
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