Olympics

A very distinguished professor was lecturing me over a lunch time sandwich as to the history of the Olympics. And he said he hope the Olympics went to Rio, this was despite the fact he was a very conservative American. I asked him the reason and he cited two major issues that meant he want keen on the Olympics, the first was the cost, he hated the idea that people believed the Chicago Olympics could be purely privately funded he said the funds were not there and in the end the American government would bail the Olympics out. The second issue he cited was the history of the Olympics he pointed out that the Olympics has had an anti Semitic, anti American and anti modernity streak running thorough it at various times in its history and he said he would rather the hundred meter dash take place in the slums of Rio rather than the slums of Chicago.