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Re: Olympic Costs could hit £9billion
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
The idea of someone training their whole life to be the best in the world at swimming 137 meters using a breaststroke (but not being very good at going 150 meters with a crawl) is tragically comical, especially when you compare it to the original Greek games where athletes were expected to be well-rounded rather than absurdly overspecialised to an extent which would make modern academics blush.
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that's Capitalisms division of lavour for you. 
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