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Day Zero: or, Why the Olympic Ideals are dead, thank you Mr Putin

Submitted by rickeyre on August 9, 2008 - 11:08pm

"The General Assembly... Urges Member States to observe, within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, the Olympic Truce, individually and collectively, during the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, the vision of which is based on the slogan "One world, one dream", and the following Paralympic Games;"

- United Nations General Assembly, 16.10.07 (source PDF)

Raising the Red Lantern for 2008

Submitted by rickeyre on August 31, 2004 - 1:23pm

The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad are over. Athens 2004 was not the shambles that many feared. Neil Horan, looking like a reject from an un-filmed Father Ted screenplay, was the only intrusion when far, Far, worse was feared. Yay.