Reform the Olympics: Pick a Spot and Stick With It

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Reform the Olympics: Pick a Spot and Stick With It
      

The original games at Olympia in Greece were also a religious festival consecrated to Zeus and a host of other gods, including Gaia the Earth goddess and Eileithyia goddess of birth. As such they were also about origins, and about what unites us all despite our bloody-minded divisiveness. The tawdry boosterism of the modern Games gives the lie to all this.

One solution: do as the Greeks did, and consecrate a single spot to host the Games in perpetuity.


         

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