actually I don’t think anyone has moaned at the sports people have they?
It’s more the pre-Olympics ‘circus’.
Some justify the overt wall to wall corporate sponsorship by saying that is how it is funded. But we only need billions of funding because the Olympics has for some reason morphed from just the games, to also one of erecting a whole village of ‘look at us’ monuments. This has also brought about the rather curious ‘problem’ of having a legacy for these facilities.
We have perfectly good stadiums all over this country. Having the games spread across existing facilities would also have reduced the load on transport infrastructure, and genuinely given the games to the people of the country.
We missed our chance to do things differently, which is what we’re so good at. Thumbed our nose at the world and done it our way.
But I cannot wait for it to start. Yes I’m gutted I can’t go, despite living less than an hour away on a mainline train link. Cynicism of what the Olympics is today, does not mean a lack of support or respect for our competitors.