Winter Olympics

[PhilinYuma]

Your government is doing the same as most other contries did. The reason is that soccer is the most popular sports in the world where big $$ are made and funded by all the big sponsor companies. If you think Poland is suck at soccer, try a country like Malaysia. Yet they spent big $$ every year inviting premier league soccer giants like Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, etc to kick the ball around. Is that going to improve the standard of Malaysia soccer.... I don't think so.

Somehow, I missed your post Yen. So far as I know, Premier football (soccer!) teams in England and other European countries are supported entirely by their own revenue. Each year, the bottom three teams are kicked out of the league to be replaced by the top three teams from other leagues, and loss of Premier status means a tremendous loss in gate income, so teams continue to bid and pay extravagantly for the best players in Europe. With Europe in recession, this is not a business model for the times. Manchester United issued a bond issue last month to help pay off the debt incurred by it's American owner, who had to borrow to buy the club, valued at $1.8 billion, and the value of the bond has dropped 10% in less than a few weeks. The total indebtedness of England's 20 Premier teams has been estimated at $3,100,000,000 (hope I got the zeros right! 3.1 billion) debt.

I was reading today that it is possible that Portsmouth won't even last out the season, if they cannot come up with beween 22 and 26 million dollars. Perhaps, next year, the Malaysian soccer teams will be playing the U.S. ladies championship soccer teams!

Go Gunners!

 

[idolomantis]

My uncle got tickets for curling for us, it was fun.

Curling is so lame but so hilarious.

And OH YEAH Holland DOMINATES speed skating :clap:

 

[sbugir]

GO Canada! 1-0 !!!