We can always think the positive things about Olympics, i.e., friendship, honesty, fair competition, beautiful opening and closing ceremony. However, behind all of this glorious stuffs, there are some negative things that we should manage. Below are some of the downsides of the Olympics extravagance:
* The use of doping in effort of winning the race. The long list of doping cases shows that people sometimes use everything (good and bad) to achieve their goal. In the race between police and criminal, so many times the criminals have one step ahead from the polices. That can happen too in the Olympics. Although IOC always tries to catch cheating athletes/countries, I believe there are many cases which are not detected by IOC. Another cheating case was about age deception of China athletes. The prestige of the countries gives pressure to them to win whatever the price.
*There are two million people have lost their homes to Olympic-related development in the past two decades. Besides, when there are deficit in the budget, the host country/city needs to deal with it. This is the socio-economy disadvantages of the lavish Olympics. In order to avoid all of this sad stories, IOC also needs to control the development of the host city related to the Olympics. There should be some rule and standard.
IOC is the key to manage these downsides. There are hopes that the world can take the advantages from this big event, but not those negative effects.
* The use of doping in effort of winning the race. The long list of doping cases shows that people sometimes use everything (good and bad) to achieve their goal. In the race between police and criminal, so many times the criminals have one step ahead from the polices. That can happen too in the Olympics. Although IOC always tries to catch cheating athletes/countries, I believe there are many cases which are not detected by IOC. Another cheating case was about age deception of China athletes. The prestige of the countries gives pressure to them to win whatever the price.
*There are two million people have lost their homes to Olympic-related development in the past two decades. Besides, when there are deficit in the budget, the host country/city needs to deal with it. This is the socio-economy disadvantages of the lavish Olympics. In order to avoid all of this sad stories, IOC also needs to control the development of the host city related to the Olympics. There should be some rule and standard.
IOC is the key to manage these downsides. There are hopes that the world can take the advantages from this big event, but not those negative effects.
You still see "doing your best" as a little bit negative of a mantra, huh Endi?
ReplyDeleteI am glad you gave this a lot of thought. Thanks for all your hard work, Lori
Yup, I think now I can see it in a different way (as a half-full glass) :D. Thank you, Lori. ~ Endi
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