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As if the olympics wasnt struggling enough to connect with the world and stay relevant, they're deciding it is time to alienate even more people on moral grounds that signal clearly that if you aren't rich and connected the olympics aren't for you. How does that align woth it being a sports event for everyday people (in name at least, even if not in spirit for a long time now)?

I think we'll see the end of the olympics before the turn on the century.

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Thats the thing though, just about every athlete you hear of these days is very much in the rich and/or connected realm of things. Make no surprise its why it can be painful to see politicians fighting tooth and nail for some of them, while ignoring basic plights of the very same demographics they'll pretend to be caring for in their athletic politics.

In the Netherlands athletes are not rich but they do get support from the state who is rich. The Olympics is dominated by countries with money and always has been.

In the Netherlands athletes are not rich but they do get support from the state who is rich

Same in the UK, but according to the article, the support is nowhere near enough to cover all the actual costs of his training, hence the OnlyFans.

You know what would be great? If there was an Olympics where anyone could sign up but you were only allowed to compete if you've never won an event or participated in any official competition in that sport. I'd love to see an actual Olympics for the masses. I think it'd be fun!

I'd love it to be a civic duty thing that all able bodied adults each country are eligible for. Each Olympics, a group of 100 random adults from each country are picked and sent to the Olympics.

It would be cool to see how each country compares athletically using random samples, but also would encourage everyone to stay fit. Who wants to be picked only to fail to complete a 50 meter swim on the international stage while representing your country?

It’s more likely that people will be selected by the countries based on some fitness criteria that is obscured from the Olympics governance machinery so as to simply make an impression that they’re selecting random people, whereas in fact they’re not.

Once you exclude enough people from the balot using exemptions like "bad feet", you'll randomly pick within the fitest in your able bodied adults and it won't mean what you actually wished for.

If this happens, I imagine some events would get "anonymous mode", where you don't get to go on-stage, but never have to tell anyone your name either. And major sport teams wanting to qualify a new player would have secret ratings, not shared with any public or Olympic committee.

I will bet 1 BTC that the Olympics will still exist in 100 years.

And I'm willing to bet you 2 BTC that OnlyFans will not.

I'd say BTC has worse chances of surviving 100 years.

What if the Olympics are suspended in 100 years, as they were in 1940 and 1944?

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