Every four years, at around th is time, you start reading stories about the “Olympic ideal,” which is always described as having been betrayed. This is usually because something has been done to make the forthcoming Games seem closed, restricted, exclusive or elite.
So we have it here in London. First, in a huge scandal, Olympic officials from several countries allegedly seized control of tens of thousands of tickets and sold them at huge markups. The lion’s share of tickets were already earmarked for the quasi-aristocratic “Olympic family” of bureaucrats and officials, so this effectively prevented most ordinary people from obtaining any tickets at all.
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