Are the Olympics just for the Money-making?

          I've heard that they say that the Olympics is just for business purposes, and not a sports thing. I think that it's crucial that we analyze the validity of this because so many athletes arduously train for years to take home the gold, but if all of that hard work is for some bogus worldwide athletic event, isn't their training in vain? The Olympics is known as a time where all the countries are at peace with one another "for once", but is this actually true when the Olympics is supposedly just for money and the host countries are accused of rigging the performance results?

         Are you thinking what I'm thinking as I type up this blog post? That's right, it's the ice skating scandal. That link will lead you to an article that does a good job of including all the details, but it is geared more towards the fact that there indeed was an ice skating scandal. But I've done my research when this all happened, and found that there was a considerable amount of people claiming that there is no such scandal and you can click here for one of the articles with this voice. This scandal has actually garnered a lot of attention, if you didn't know already, and this brings to attention what the Olympics is actually all about.

         Because it's sad when small countries like South Korea only has one representative for a certain sports, in the case of figure skating, Yuna Kim, and that representative has a lot of pressure from his/her country, all to go compete where money-making is the focus, not the actual athletics part. Going off from this, why is the Olympics something that the whole world takes so seriously when people say that it's all just for money? Not that I don't care for the Olympics at all, but it's something interesting to think about, what draws all of us to the Olympics? Should we make such a big deal out of something that really can be just a scheme for businesses to earn some bucks? At least considering these questions and reflecting on our own personal motives for the Olympics would be good for shaping a truly peaceful event for all the nations. It's because Olympics may really be a scheme for bringing in money for the many sponsors and these questionable rigging that it can't wholly be a friendly event worldwide. When one country attack another country, they may just strike back when they get their chance.


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