Kirsty Coventry becomes first female president of International Olympic Committee (www.usatoday.com)
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Bridger@sh.itjust.works on 20 Mar 16:44 next collapse

Equal opportunity corruption

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 18:36 next collapse

Is she suffciently corrupt for that job? In that regard, she has gargantuan shoes to fill.

ThePyroPython@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 23:55 collapse

Hey guys, please don’t pay any attention to the history of the modern Olympics (early 20th century) being started as sports day for the wealthiest of society because us toffs got scared about the formation of proper sports federation events allowing the peasants to compete in our leisure activities because they offered cash prizes making them a viable career so we made a set of games where the only prize is prestige hence why you get a lot of working-class background olympians selling their medals on eBay…

Don’t mind anything of that because for the first-time (and probably the last for about 20 years) we got a woman for the first time in charge! Woo! We’re so progressive! Please keep watching so we can rake in insane sponsorship money and bankrupt cities that host our overhyped egg-and-spoon races.