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TITLE: The Olympic Games Are Coming To London In 2012, But Will They Totally Live Up To Expectations Or Will The Bad Side Of Sport Ruin The Party

I’ve been into various sports since I was at junior school, having been given a crash course in football by my neighbour when I was about eight years old. John was lucky enough to get a ticket for the F.A. Cup Final one time, and I, with childish enthusiasm, insisted on viewing the match on a television screen in the hope that I would be able to spot him in the crowd. Obviously, I didn’t spot him, but I had got enthusiastic about the spectacle of the big match. During my teens I became an obsessive football fan, with the results round-up at five o’clock|5pm|tea-time on a Saturday afternoon affecting my mood for what remained of the weekend. Fortuitously for my family, I followed a club who won more frequently than they lost!

Over the years, I set out to watch a lot of other sports on television. Test cricket was soon a firm favourite when a bout of glandular fever left me holed up at home during a series in the West Indies, snooker had been dragged from the pubs and clubs of Britain and mutated into primetime viewing by way of some inventive PR and the realisation that here was a game that was relatively cheap and straightforward to broadcast. And then there was the Olympic Games, a stunning sporting spectacle which happened every four years and in which the whole world competed on level terms. Or so we were told.

As my earliest memory of anything relating to the Olympics was the tragic events which happened in Munich in 1972, it’s perhaps strange that I adored the whole concept of the event so completely. But the same games also delivered Mark Spitz’s incredible collection of seven gold medals in the swimming pool – an achievement only bettered thirty-six years later by Michael Phelps. Hours of viewing East European athletes effortlessly outdoing allcomers thanks to performance enhancing drugs which went undetected didn’t dent my enthusiasm either, and I have avidly watched as much coverage as I have been able to over the decades – until now. (Is it any great shock that I now have to wear glasses to see properly and am saving up for Laser eye surgery? Too many days spent watching sport on the TV!)

And no matter how much I try, I’m finding it difficult to build up any enthusiasm for the London Games. Even relations who really don’t have any interest in sport are of the opinion that they’d probably like to go and watch a couple of events, as it could be the only chance that they have in their lifetime, yet I, who claim to be such an avid sports fan, and can get to the main Olympic site in less than an hour from where I live, have little interest in trying to buy tickets.

I believe that there are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I am tired of the number of scandals and unpleasant events that have begun to sully many sports – violent footballers, bribed cricketers, drug using athletes, jockeys throwing races for backhanders, and behind them all, the shady types who do most of the damage and who cause such havoc purely for personal financial profit.

Secondly, big business has an iron grip on so many events now. Everything has business branding, events are scheduled to accommodate television executives wishes instead of the fans, sportsmen and women are told whose clothes they must wear and what products they must endorse, including diet supplements and Laser eye treatments – aren’t these effectively ‘legal’ cheating? But the outcome for sports lovers is paying stupid prices to watch an event in order to line the corporate pockets of those who are running the show, and without in reality being sure if teams or competitors are really participating against each other on equal terms. The golfer who is advertising Laser eye surgery - doesn’t the treatment give him an unfair advantage? The football team whose directors have taken on some obscure sort of therapist – is everything he encourages the team to do totally legitimate?

Finally, I don’t see the wealth of personalities in sport these days. There are a small number of characters who might be described as entertaining, but due to the money now involved, most sportspeople don’t believe that they can say a few crazy things once in a while because anything they do or say could have an effect on their contract. I find myself hoping for another Kriss Akabusi, Jackie Stewart, Tony Currie, Alan Minter or John McEnroe (though I can imagine that he’d probably be promoting Laser eye treatment if he was still playing at his peak now – although for the tennis officials rather than himself!)