But let's say that, for whatever reason, which probably has to do with the fact that the Olympics murdered your parents and left you a wealthy vigilante orphan, you're against the Olympics altogether. Don't expect to use your freedom of speech to voice your anger against sports-themed injustices. The IOC demands that during the games, special rights be given to the host city. Not just strutting rights among the other cities of their nation, although that's a given, but also the right to squash all local laws regarding free speech.
The London contract, for example, spells out that all billboards throughout the city must be rented by the city and that only sponsors of the games will be able to use them. If anyone wants to put up an anti-Olympics billboard, they are banned. Police even have the power to enter your house and rip down an anti-Olympics sign. Getty "Someone badmouthed Wenlock! Go, go, go! In London, the creepy Big Brother aspect of the Olympics "brand police" has led to a whole genre of protest art by underground artists.
Just incorporating the Olympics logo into their work is an act of defiance -- a lingerie store was forced to take down a window display using five hula hoops and some bras to mimic the Olympic rings, presumably out of fear that people would mistake that for the entrance to the Olympic Village.
Cities all over the world get down and dirty for a shot at bringing the globe's greatest games to their country. It's like the Hunger Games of the adult world, only without the starvation, murder and incest we haven't read The Hunger Games. Getting chosen to host the Olympics is a tacit acknowledgment that your city is awesome and worthy of the eyes of the whole planet. Do you think anyone is going to campaign to bring the Olympics to Little Rock, Arkansas, or Cleveland?
Hosting the Olympics means your city will be remembered and respected for decades. Is there any other honor greater than that? We used to have Lebron James? But there's a price to getting the privilege of hosting the Olympics, and that price might be your entire economy. Greece learned the lesson the hard way.
Greece's initial budget for the games was 4. When all was said and done, the cost of the games was 5 percent of Greece's GDP, and eight years later, the country hasn't recovered from the debt.
The city of Vancouver has given up on recovering all the money it put into its fancy schmancy Olympic Village condos that were later converted into residential homes. Today the buildings form a ghost town, and city officials are struggling to come up with a way to just break even on them. And none of these financial disasters compare to Montreal Greece pending. Christmas Cookbook. Oxford High School Tragedy. Diabetes In America. The History of Black Friday.
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But even the abstract of that study has about a million caveats on how more research is needed, says studies need to be peer-reviewed, and policymakers need way more information from multiple scientific communities. Even just the abstract suggests the current binary system is outdated. Sexism and transphobia, one helluva cocktail! They were poised for Olympic glory until being flat-out banned for high testosterone.
Mboma and Masilingi appealed, obviously. The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the ban, but then declared that neither the sprinters, their coaches, their families, nor the Namibia National Olympic Committee knew about their condition.
Okay, no one knew. The two women just happen to naturally have high testosterone levels. High by Olympic standards, I mean, which are subjective. So much like Simone Biles simply being better than everyone else, Mboma and Masilingi blew away the competition. But they got it worse. So here goes: uh Bet Ryan Lochte gets real bad shrinkage, amirite? Oleg Bkhambri.
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