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The devil is indeed in the detail. How is it that the official timekeeper of the event is the same company that sponsors Phelps since 2004? Isn't there a clear conflict of interest here? You know how deligthtfully messed up that is?? That's like having Tim Donaghy officiating in NBA games, and also placing bets on them. And why are leading FINA officials unashamedly and brazenly the biggest cheerleaders of Michael Phelps? We are not talking about NBC and other American-broadcasters who have clear interest in weaving the mythical narrative in their sickening quest for the largest share of ratings, and for purposes of appeasing (read: licking asses of) their advertisers (and therefore for their economical ends) who buy such ridiculously overpriced ad slots. We are not talking about millions of average American fans who are being assaulted by some of the biggest sport-related media hype in history (Hi Bob!). We are not talking about millions of biased American fans that only care that Phelps is an American who "kicks ass". We are not talking about millions of white Americans who rejoice and cherish the success and worldwide fame of an all-white athlete in a sport where speed, stamina and physical contributions are of outmost importance. Instead, we are talking about the officials of FINA, the supposedly neutral governing and regulating body of this sport. Think of the possibilities of inbreeding my friends. Considering that Milorad Cavic did beat Phelps head-to-head in qualifying session, and since Milorad Cavic posted better time than Phelps and everbody else in the semifinals, FINA & Omega had plenty of time to make sure that Phelps wins the final session, even if it had to be by the narrowest of allowed margins. Shame on you FINA! Shame on you Omega! Shame on you IOC for allowing this charade to unfold in front of our very own eyes! On August 23, Omega released a set of photos which they claim provide "clear evidence" of Phelps' win. Wow! If this wasn't for real, it would've been dismissed as a bad joke. First of all, this set of photos is taken from above, and is of such poor, murky, blurry quality that nothing can even be clearly seen, let alone "proved clear". Even the mainstream media has commented that these photos are not clear. In fact, they look more like some tiny abstract impressionist paintings than the hi-def evidence needed. It is utterly ridiculous that Omega claims this as an 'evidence'. By doing so they only validate the theory that something funky happened in the Water Cube that day. Moreover, it is interesting to note how they waited one full week before releasing these ridiculous images. Are they just trying to promote themselves again. Are they just trying to enter their brand into the conversation again? In any case, we are not asking for this crap as an evidence of Phelps' win, we are asking for a high-def, high-speed underwater video that apparently FINA has in their possession, but refuses to release. We want clear visual evidence from FINA, not blurry, shitty, tiny photos from the watchmaker Omega. And what are we supposed to make out of the fact that the two leading FINA officials disagree with one another as to how much exact pressure is needed to activate the sensor touchpad?? This begs the question, if FINA officials don't know, how is Cavic supposed to know? Moreover, if the rules are so ambiguous, can the outcome of the race be tilted in favor of one type of swimmer by way of making those touchpads less sensitive (requiring stronger push/activation), and thus favoring more stronger/physical and less finesse finisher like Phelps? And if you think this is just about one race in some stupid sport that nobody cares about, think again. This is the end my friend. Dumbing down of America before the marketing and media and political gods is long complete. Knowingly or not we are in it just for the sake of chasing our own tails. Eating our own young. We are part of the societal and global loop structure that is larger than the capability of our individual comprehension of the matters that concern us and our well-beings. We are pre-wired, pre-programmed, and our basic emotions and life experiences are pre-determined. We are intellectual cyborgs that have inbred and self-mutated. Worst of all -- we come with no expiration date. So rejoice away my friends, and look forward to another manufactured spectacle brought to you by the masters of the global loop whose unwitting part you are. No amount of Bob Costas-induced stupor will change that. But until that time, we demand that IOC cease this downright wrong practice of allowing athletes' sponsors, in individual sports, to also be the timekeepers of the events where those athletes appear. Just like people, electronics can be tinkered with. Similarly, we demand that Omega employs a third party that will certify their results. Not that that would make it a fool proof, but it would ad an extra layer of assurance. At the moment the certification is done by Omega itself. In other words, Omega certifies that Omega is telling the truth. If that's not a 'self-fellatio' we don't know what is. So as it stands, not only is the potential abuse always present, but the whole thing is completely in contravention of the original aim of the Olympic games; which was a celebration of human spirit via achievements of the human body; as opposed to today's Olympic 'spirit' which is nothing but a celebration of corporate greed and commercial excess and celebrity worship by way of contemporary drugged-up gladiators in their pursuit of hefty endorsements and 5 minutes of fame. As late as 20 years ago the Olympics featured only amateur athletes. Since the IOC has gotten in cahoots with the greedy American and international corporations who saw a potential in planetary profits and their brand promoting and positioning on a global scale, nothing was ever the same again. Do we really believe that Usain Bolt superbly and effortlessly dominated his field because he ate sugar cereal this morning? In an age where designer steroids are being synthesized by thousands so as to avoid detection methods, is anything real any more? We now have obscenely professional U.S. athletes that are not reliably tested in their own leagues (read NBA) dominating the Olympic competition without any 'checks and balances' that are required of other Olympic athletes. You're not gonna tell us that Kobe Bryant will be required to piss in a small bottle to satisfy some test? You're not gonna tell us that a billion-dollar man-beast LeBron James will be denied his gold medal just because he was probably using human growth hormons since the time he was in a kindergarten (HGH, by the way, can't be detected by any tests). In the contemporary Olympic spectacle even horses are not safe from doping. What's next, Barry Bonds and Rafael Palmeiro lining up to get their Olympic gold with a needle hanging up their ass?? But we digress... |
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