Gold without honour.(need for Olympics reform)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 30, 1999 | Copyright information

The scandals in the Olympic family are far from over

HESIOD, the father of Greek poetry, had strong views on honesty. Nearly 3,000 years ago, he lamented that man had fallen from a virtuous Golden Age, through Silver and Bronze to his own immoral era of Iron. Judging by the latest scandal in the committee that organises the Olympic Games-first run shortly after Hesiod was around-virtue has all but rusted away.

Not unnoticed, though. For years the International...

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