Well Wolfgang, I can come up with hundreds of reasons to not hold the Olympics in the same place. That's no trick. The real point here for me is not against sports nor against the idea of the Olympics, but like so many other things in this time, the sheer magnitude of the money involved is staggering and competition for holding a Games has become bigger than the competition in the actual events.

There is no solution to this problem and we are no more likely to see any changes here than we are in professional baseball becoming even remotely affordable for the average fan to watch live. It's a subject that may be interesting to argue about but an affordable and profitable Olympics is as ridiculous an idea now as the Easter Bunny. Wonderful to think about, but just not there. I still don't believe we need them....there are plenty of other unaffordable sporting events to watch.

Which reminds me..........NPR the other morning was playing radio coverage of figure skating. 20 seconds of music and then a quick comment followed by another 30 seconds of music. Now friends I know that a lot of things are visual and hard to cover on radio, but this was just totally ludicrous.......Best laugh I've had in ages!

Spaw