Costliest Olympics

are there nazi gangs in Russia?

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never-mind, that's Greece in the pic and they have Golden Dawn, which is close.

To be fair, the russian economy isn't exactly the greek economy.

whats the over/under on total number of male figure skater being arrested for gay propaganda.

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Not sure, but whoever NBC is using for "color" on their skating nowadays leaves no doubt. (Johnny Weir I think)

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To be fair the winter olympics qualify as gay propaganda if you ask me. Hockey and curling aside.

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Biathalon

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There's a joke here somewhere....

absolutely

Are you sure about curling? I've got suspicions after watching how some of those people use their brooms. The furious short strokes. Do I need to say more?

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Has the whole concept of the Olympics jumped the proverbial shark?

I say, it has.

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No doubt. They were awesome in 1976. Not so much anymore.

There's an economist somewhere (I know, not very descriptive) who has done some research on the public spending for the olympics, and he concludes that countries/cities don't make their money back on these huge projects.

He did point out some good developments that have come from Olympic games (downtown Atlanta, Athens' renovated subway system, etc.) but, largely, a shitload of money is poured into building these stadiums and shite that are never used. He used London and Beijing as his primary examples.