I see the latest trend among the Olympic athletes
is nail art. They’re all trying to outdo each other in having the best
expression of patriotic fervour on their finger nails, and the trend is so
popular that there’s a five day waiting list. If you’ve got no hope of winning
a medal, at least you can triumph in the finger nail stakes.
This isn’t a serious issue, of course, I just think
it’s another example of the old Olympic ideal being trivialised by the
candyfloss culture mentality. And I expect the company with the nail art
franchise is making a hell of a lot of money, which is basically what everything
is about now.
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I caught a bit of the women’s beach volleyball the
other day (do they have men’s beach volleyball?) It struck me as being more
soft porn than sport, but that, at least, appeared to echo the original Olympic
Games in Ancient Greece where the athletes competed naked. And people with my
idealistic attitude towards the sanctity of the female body don’t have to
watch it, do we?
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