For DUers interested in the real Politics (read business) of the Olympics and global sports

[malaise]

http://www.transparencyinsport.org/andre_guelfi_india.pdf


Two decades ago the Games were spotted as an undervalued asset that could be privatised and sweated, bringing huge profits to corporations and the International Olympic Committee. The criminal genius who did the deed is now an embarrassment, not invited to Beijing.

http://www.transparencyinsport.org/
Andrew's website - Transparency in Sport

I have copies of all of Andrew's books.

[Solly Mack]

1. and Bush met with corporate sponsors on Saturday in Beijing

[Junkdrawer]

2. DemocracyNow did a great piece Friday on this subject...

Billions and billions of unbranded consumers...

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/8/this_is_the_olympics_the_west

[malaise]

3. Thanks for that link - many forget this quote

’96 in Atlanta, to me, was a particularly brutal time, because that was found by—I believe it was the ACLU, but it was found conclusively that police were filling out reports—arrest reports, before even hitting the streets, that listed that they were going to arrest people, and they would fill it out “young black male,” and then they would go out in the streets, and they arrested people for crimes like lying on the sidewalk, basically for being homeless. And they rounded up thousands of young African Americans as a way to make the city, quote-unquote, “presentable” for the Olympic Games. And not to mention the fact that a lot of public housing was torn down in Atlanta, as well. And this is what the Olympics brings.