"Likewise, the soccer tournament lacks all but a handful of the household names that millions of people flock to week in and week out. It's time the IOC recognised that for the Olympics to remain the pinnacle of sporting excellence, these events must be removed." I think it would be a great idea to remove every legitimate sport that the world holds dear to its heart. Let's remove soccer, baseball, and basketball from the Olympics. What makes the most money in America? Oh, baseball, basketball, and football. What makes the most money in the rest of the world? Soccer. If they make the most money, that must mean that the people like them the most. If we remove every sport that people love, then what's the point of even having the Olympics?
We might as well just see who the best hop-scotch player with one leg in the world is under your idea. There's a reason the greatest athletes in the world don't participate in the Olympics. That reason is they don't want to devalue their lives in the presence of such inferior athletes.
"It's an interesting debate regarding what the Olympics really mean and I look forward to hearing what everyone else thinks." Well, let me tell you what I think. I think that the Olympics are a place where inferior athletes gather and claim they are the best in the world. As I've said before and will say many times again, swimmers are simply not athletes. Don't tell me that if you trained LeBron James from the time he was two years old to be a swimmer he wouldn't be the best in the world right now.
The fact of the matter is that the most athletic kids in high school and college play major sports. They play baseball and football and basketball. Not very many of them take up gymnastics and practice on the uneven bars all day.
It's ridiculous to claim that gymnists and swimmers come out of the same talent pool as basketball, football, and baseball players. While I admit these Olympians are not completely rid of athletic ability, they still possess one-tenth of the athletic ability of an NFL and NBA player. It takes skill and willpower to be physical and get injured by a hit, not to go swimming in a nice pool.
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