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Originally posted by aNILEator

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Originally posted by djdannyp

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Originally posted by Svip
I thought the olympics were about putting aside political differences and compete on an unbiased platform.

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There's so many things wrong with that sentence....being a sports scientist i should launch into a CookieRevised style essay reply, but i'm simply gonna say that there's been political boycotts of the olympics virtually every games since the 1950s

and as for it being an unbiased platform, there's been cheating in numerous forms (drugs, bribrery, equipment tampering) since the olympics began

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Either you misquoted or you really don't understand him in the slightest.

The Olympics SHOULDN'T be about political differences or be biased, you're trying to say that it should be or something?

but then I have my opinions about sports 'scientists'.

Oh also on defense of Svip, there is nothing wrong with his sentence at all, it even has a full stop at the end. Whereas there are things wrong with yours in the first 3 words.

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I understand him perfectly.  the olympics SHOULD be like that......but they're not.  so by saying "i thought the olympics were about..." blah, blah appeared to be saying that they were like that, when the truth is far from it.  The thing wrong with his sentence is the content of it....and there's nothing wrong with mine either if it's taken as speech (which it was meant to be), don't start a petty grammar war cos i'm also an english student, so I'm hardly going to make a mistake like that, I was just abbreviating "there are" to "there's" which is a perfectly acceptable thing to do outside of formal situations

and whilst we're commenting on grammar, it should be "in defense"

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Originally posted by RaceProUK

Cheating isn't the same as bias.

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I never said it was, but cheating by officials (one of the things i was referring to by "many forms") would count as bias and therefore i'm correct

also, as for both of your views on sports scientists, i'd suggest that you're very badly informed and that if you engage in ANY kind of sporting activity (including watching) then your sport would be VASTLY different (read 'non-existent') in its current form without sports scientists

I don't mean to offend anyone with any of this, just I feel pretty strongly about things like this and don't take well to criticism on subjects on which I am very well informed, especially when people are largely just nitpicking because they have no argument, or making sweeping generalisations and so I will fight my corner