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The Olympic games, it seems, are the new warfare: athletes, like soldiers before them, march behind the flag of their nation in order to do battle and win medals. It’s more of an economic war now: the host nation is ritually crippled by the cost of organi... 

… do they all drown? Brilliant post my friend. I just cracked up laughing reading through the list while eating lunch. A dangerous thing to do, particularly when I got to Badminton. My secretary rushed in to make sure I was alright! A

...any others you'd care to add to the list? Cheers, pplater.

… Richard Castles (a Melbourne writer) wrote in The Age newspaper today: I'm sorry, but coming first in the beach volleyball competition is just not the same as winning the marathon. One belongs in the Hall of Heroes, the other at Club Med. The fastest ma... 

pp, This is so funny … did you make it up yourself? Curious, Helen

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pp Hope you don’t mind if I share your entertaining take of the Olympic saga on the beloved PuristS Belles Lettres forum. Genteelly, Helen