Winter Olympics Are Just A "Marketing Plan," Says Gumbel
14 February 2006
Winter Olympics Are Just A "Marketing Plan," Says Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel, who currently hosts a show on HBO called Real Sports, has
concluded that the Winter Olympics events are not real sports at all. During
the former Today show host's commentary on the HBO program, Gumbel
remarked that he never watches them and pointed out that the ancient Greeks
never heard of skating or skiing. "So try not to laugh when someone says these
are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the
Winter Games look like a GOP convention," Gumbel commented. "And try to blot
out all logic when announcers and sports writers pretend to care about the
luge, the skeleton, the biathlon and all those other events they don't
understand and totally ignore for all but three weeks every four years. Face
it, these Olympics are little more than a marketing plan to fill space and sell
time during the dreary days of February."
14/02/2006
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