By: Russell Walton
Geoffrey Barker, I agree, the opportunity costs of the Olympic circuses are enormous, there are hundreds of more productive uses for the taxpayers’ funds. Those demented people ( and vested interests)...
View ArticleBy: Roger Scott
Praise be for a stimulating critique. There was a delightful air of amateurism in every sense in Melbourne, rapidly washed out by the perceived authoritarianism of Eastern Europeans who performed so...
View ArticleBy: Max Willoughby
I’m glad you mentioned scientists [even if only in parentheses], but this country would be better off spending less on sport and art and more on technology promotion – engineering and science. But I...
View ArticleBy: Boyd Milligan
Geoffrey Perhaps your comments regarding the increased commercialisation of the Olympics reflect general trends in all facets of human endeavour. I must take issue with your commentary on the role...
View ArticleBy: Phil Gorman
What a gross spectacle the modern Olympic games present. Money and winning at any cost trump all else. The service of Mammon is added to the preoccupations of those ancient narcissists, onanists and...
View ArticleBy: Greg Mullins
I, like so many Australians, are lamenting the lacklustre performance of Australia’s Olympians at the London Games. Not because I take any interest in our sporting performance but because of the...
View ArticleBy: Henry Haszler
I agree with pretty much everything in the article. But I believe that elite sport does have some spin-offs in terms of motivating others to be more active and/or to just try harder themselves in...
View ArticleBy: Richard Pickup
I rather like sport (participating very rarely watching)but the focus on Olympic/elite sports seems to be at the expense of the local sport for the kids. Very few of the kids in the poorer suburbs ever...
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