Comments on: FIFA sucks… and so does the IOC… http://trashysworld.ca/2012/08/07/fifa-sucks-and-so-does-the-ioc/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fifa-sucks-and-so-does-the-ioc Scribbling some perspective on Canada, Ottawa and whatever else crosses my mind... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:40:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jon Habart http://trashysworld.ca/2012/08/07/fifa-sucks-and-so-does-the-ioc/comment-page-1/#comment-132123 Jon Habart Wed, 08 Aug 2012 04:16:00 +0000 http://trashysworld.ca/?p=6403#comment-132123 FIFA should be ashamed of themselves. It’s obvious the calls were incorrect and cost the Canadian team the game and a chance at a gold medal. Now they are trying to suppress negative comments by “investigating” the Canadian side. A better direction for their investigation would be into the American side and their relationship with the “FIFA” official who at the very last minute of the game did whatever she could to hand the Americans the game.

]]> By: Evolving Squid http://trashysworld.ca/2012/08/07/fifa-sucks-and-so-does-the-ioc/comment-page-1/#comment-132109 Evolving Squid Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:18:45 +0000 http://trashysworld.ca/?p=6403#comment-132109 The olympics stopped being about sport and became all commercial + political decades ago. I pity the athletes who go there thinking they’ll be getting a fair shake.

Sure, they’ve only CAUGHT-IN-A-PUBLIC-WAY officiating corruption in figure skating, gymnastics, boxing and site selection, but I don’t believe – not even for a second – that the whole of the Olympics are in any way above-board. The Olympic extravaganza is a decayed tooth that needs extraction.

That’s a large part of why I don’t watch it, and why I barely follow it. I find that the non-olympic competitions are of superior quality and substantially less influenced by outside, non-sport-related concerns.

And I’m not even talking about the organized cheating by athletes… That’s a whole other discussion.

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