The olympics is not about sport, it is about capitalism and greed,
My soul mate !
Competing is more important than winning, IIRC that is the slogan right??
Yet the olympics cost China its entire water reserve for the next two decades.
Plus (gambling here) billions of dollars/euros/yen whatever coin they spend
Meanwhile farmers outside of Beijing cannot farm because of the desert pulling in from the drought and people are starving for having nothing to eat.
China (and the world for that matter) can do much better things with such money than to spend it on building stadiums that will only be filled (at all or to capacity) during the Olympics and even then...
After the Olympics they stand there as a momento to what was and may be, but... for due purpose are overprices peaces of future scrap.
We have our national/continental and world championships to compete for (which cost to much money as well) now the Olympics steels one of those 'years' because contentenders for the world champs try and peak at the olympics.
All for some stupid 'custom' of the 'supposed' greek ancients, who competed for gold medals (sure!).
Bull hockey and cross eyed poker playing on steroids!
Lets cancel all this 'great stuff' like olympics, exploring the stars and the Moon. Sending a 6 billions costing robot to operate on mars to find ice?? Yay there MAY have been live in some form on Mars 10 billion years ago... WHO cares?
Developing some space station that may benifit us WHEN?
Meanwhile we dont have funds to feed everyone or to research a cure for the cold, flu or Cancer and Aids.
We dont have funds to research cleaner electricity and substitutes for fuel consumption to save our own planet. So what if there was life on Mars? Our own planet will drown and colaps in upon it self under the weight of humanity before we ever become somewhat knowledgable of anything beyond anywhere but Earth.
Lets stop wasting resources and start pulling these resources towards loftier goals than "oh I heard a beep from outer space"
There may be life on the forth planet from that star say 60.000 lightyears from here.
Even if we had the technology to travel that far AT lightspeed we would get there in say 60.000 years??!!! OK that may seem like a second in the "grand scheme" of things... but is more than 600 live-times for our average human.
1200 livetimes for a round trip.
So what there may be aliens out there so advanced they could kill us all in 10 seconds or less... SO WHAT? like we can do anything to stop them??
Idiots Idiots Idiots! All of them!
*goes to bang head on wall*
Sorry for the rant guys.... but I really trully feel all this sports and stuff is nice and all, but come on ... face facts, how much is this costing China and/or maybe more importantly what is this costing its populous?