With a lot of the preparation and execution done just right
by present standards, will the London 2012 Olympics go down in history as the
first “Politically Correct Olympics”?
By: Ringo Bones
They may have been some “bad” aspects that plagued the
preparation of the London 2012 Olympics – the private security contractor
failing to hire enough qualified security personnel that got exploited by a
far-right fear-mongering US presidential candidate. Scores of unoccupied seats
on the more popular events during the first few days, not to mention the main
sponsors are peddling unhealthy products that can cause chronic health problems
to their unwary consumers. But I think that enough good has been done to make the
London 2012 Olympic Games to go down in the annals of history as the first ever
politically-correct Olympic Games.
London 2012 was the first time ever that all of the Olympic
events were open to both men and women – which make it score highly in the political
correctness stakes. All of the Olympic facilities that had been constructed
didn’t involved evicting some disadvantage ethnic minorities from their
ancestral homes, as in not a single Druid was evicted during the construction
of the London 2012’s main stadium. Unlike what is currently happening in the
preparation of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and during the Beijing Olympics back
in 2008. And London 2012 did manage lower Britain’s unemployment rate.
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