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From: done@teklabs.UUCP (Don Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.rec,net.misc
Subject: Re: Gripes about Olympic Coverage
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Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 12:56:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 12:56:32 1984
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>                                 By and large, the olympics would
> be a lot better if the nationalism were forbidden, getting rid of
> the stupid flag ceremonies entirely, and honoring individual
> achievement.

Better for whom?  Nationalism is not always bad....sometimes it serves
to pay the athlete's bills while they're in training.  I also see nothing
wrong at all with the flag ceremonies.  It gives the winning atheletes
some well-deserved recognition, and gives the folks at home something
to cheer about.  But I guess I'm just too old-fashioned to ignore the
existence of countries.

And while I'm being blasphemous here, I might as well go all the way.
I LIKE watching the US atheletes.  Other countries watch and cheer on
their athletes, so I see nothing immoral or fattening about watching
and cheering on ours.  

The next statement may even get me kicked off the net:  I've enjoyed
ABC's coverage of the Olympics.  It's a bit shlocky at times, true, but
I am one of those ignoramouses who doesn't have encylopedic knowledge
of all the Olympic events, and I need to be TOLD what to look for.

You're right, I'm probably hopeless.  But I'll just continue enjoying the
Olympics in my blissful ignorance, and the rest of you can bitch about it.
But before you continue your bitching, please pass the popcorn.

Don Ellis
Tektronix