Best of the Best?

In addition to my previous rant:

Congratulations.... you won the GOLD... you are the BEST out of the 38 Olympians that showed up to represent the 183 idiots WORLDWIDE that do (insert trivial sport category here). BIG FREAKING DEAL. This gives new meaning to "What do you want? A freaking medal?"

AT A MINIMUM...... the Olympics should demand the following three very simple criteria be met before it accepts or renews a sport in the Olympics:

1. There must be at least 1 million regular participants worldwide. There are six and ahalf Billion people in the world... if you can't get 1/6500 of them to do something... it ain't worth doing or watching.

2. There must be at least 10,000 regular participants in each of at least 20 countries. C'mon... otherwise the Americans would jam "Cheerleading", "Slam Ball" and "NASCAR" into the Olympics. hoo-rah.

3. There must be "grassroots" competitive leagues for the sport (i.e. house league, and civic teams) The reason for this is to stop the insanity with "I'm on the National Team"... when there isn't even a Provincial or City team or system.

Simple.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate our Canadian Olympians who persevered without adequate funding to pursue an obscure activity so that they would have a better chance of "medalling" due to the low global paticipation rate.... so that WE the lazy couch-potato channel-surfing masses can wallow and "share" in their success. Shame on you, shame on me, shame on us all.

I'm not here to make friends.... I have too many as it is.

TT