Bad Birdies 0
Simon Jenkins suggests that, if indeed some badminton teams threw games to get an advantage in later seeds, well, that’s what the contemporary quadrennial athletic marketing event is really about–Not the striving, the surviving to the winner’s circle. A nugget:
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The concept of the Olympics as being not about winning but “about taking part” ended long ago. Modern Olympics are parodies of Hitler’s nationalist games of 1936. They are a statist contest determined by who wins the most medals.
Also, endorsements.
