Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 14:46:58 07/24/00
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On July 24, 2000 at 15:00:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >>There is nothing amateur about the Olympics any more. A long time ago Jim >Thorpe lost his Olympic medals for not being an amateur, but even then, it was >incredibly hypocritic. > You're right. There was also critic about the "state amateurs" from the countries then behind the iron curtain. Chess an olympic sport? If you wait long enough to go to the toilet during a tournament game you're sure to do the 100 meters in a world record 5,3 seconds at the end of the game. Jeroen ;-}
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