Re: Clijsters out of Olympics

Steve Jaros wrote:

> IMO, the olympics should be about bringing together the very best athletes
> in the world in fair competition. No political or economic  factors should
> be allowed to bias that. When it comes to team membership the only thing
> should matter is athletic skill as demonstrated through a fair qualifying
> process.

As you ably demonstrated in so many other threads (pro tour subsidies, 
tennis tactics, wood vs composite racket, $45 hotel rooms, ad infinitum) 
you are clearly overmatched when reason intrudes in your little fantasy 
world.  This is only the latest example, and it is singularly stunning 
in its clarity.

Political factors?  How about the very idea that teams from various 
NATIONS participate.  That's politics.  (Or did you think the countries 
were set by a higher power?)  The CORE of the olympics is politics.

Economic factors?  How about the fact that the olympics are big 
business?  Billions and billions of dollars are run through the olympic 
spectacle every two years.  The Queen to King Politics is economics.

You are so incredibly naive, but it is not your greatest fault.