ONE UP FOR NIGERIA!

Nigeria will not send an official government delegation to the Olympic Games in London. The move is to cut junkets and to keep athletes focused. Junketeers, squandering the taxpayers' hard-earned money, often have little or nothing to do with the sport they are travelling to support.

Kleptocrats are often taking very expensive junkets, taking advantage of their positions and access to public funds to undertake pleasure trips thinly disguised as being of political importance. For example, a keptocrat might travel to Greece, claiming to attend a conference there, but leaving plenty of days to explore the Greek islands and Greek delights at leisure. http://venitism.blogspot.com/
What Nigerians are doing is that they are taking all reasonable measures to ensure that every single person going to the Olympics has a business in the Olympics. Any Nigerian state governor spotted in London between 27 July and 2 August would be at the Olympics in a personal capacity.
Kleptocrats, accompanied by their kith and kin, are going to junkets because they cannot miss a good party at taxpayers' expense. The worst thing that could happen in a junket is running out of caviar and hookers. Many junketeers use military jets that cost 10,000 euros per hour! Deputies of the European Parliament (EP), aka Eldorado of Prostitutes, love junkets!
An anti-corruption investigation was launched after the 2010 football World Cup because of the exorbitant bill for officials who travelled to South Africa, squandering the taxpayers' hard-earned money.
Global junkets of kleptocrats fail to live up to the hype and the promises made.
A lot of money is spent laying them on. Host cities are disrupted for days or
even weeks. The cavalcades roll into town. Good intentions are shared in
productive talks. Then, somehow, those intentions rarely seem to come to
fruition in real, tangible global action. When kleptocrats meet again a year
later, they find things haven't really moved on. Spending two billion euros on a global junket is preposterous.
We all know what happens at Olympics, an international competition of steroids,
not athletes. People feel well during the games, but feel miserable after the
games when they find out Olympics cost them ten times more than projected, and
most of it went to kickbacks of kleptocrats!
When kleptocrats meet each other on junkets, they exchange gifts paid by their
taxpayers. The most expensive gifts, and secret cash under the table, are
given by the Royal House of Saudi Arabia. That's why so many Eurokleptocrats
are eager to meet the Saudi princes! The ridiculous awarding of medals among politicians should be banned. It insults the intelligence of citizens. Medal swapping is as disgusting as wife swapping! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Athletic competitions are not really competitions of athletes, but of
pharmaceutical companies and kickbacks! Every year new untraceable dopes show up
that bring gold medals. The current antidoping code includes the whereabouts
system, requiring athletes to select one hour every day to be available for
no-notice drug tests. But these tests cannot find out the brand new drugs. Many
governments subsidize these million-euro drugs as food supplements of their
athletes! http://venitism.blogspot.com/
Scientists cannot detect the banned practice of blood doping. It involves athletes storing and transfusing their own blood, or the blood of others, before competition, to increase the number of red blood cells in the body. By manipulating their oxygen-carrying capacity, cheats can increase their stamina and speed.
More than ten thousand East German athletes were doped in a program that ran for
decades up until 1989 with approval from the highest levels of the East German
government. Many were given the pills as minors. Three million tablets of
performance enhancing drugs, mostly anabolic steroids, were given out each year
to athletes. Many later developed cancer, ovarian cysts, liver damage, heart
disease, infertility and other ailments. Some had children with health problems,
such as blindness or club feet.
East German coaches, trainers and parents would watch as their young daughters
suddenly exhibited unusual amounts of body hair, bulked up rapidly, and
developed deep voices. There was a joke running around that when women Olympic
swimmers would go into the changing room and see East German girls there, they'd
say, oh my God, we must be in the men's locker room!
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Despite the near cartoonish appearance of some of their athletes, the doping
program delivered results. From 1972 to 1988, East Germany of 17 million people
won 384 Olympic medals, not including the 1984 Los Angeles Games, which they
boycotted. They always placed well ahead of the much larger West Germany.
Paralympics are a joke! Cheating is becoming an increasing problem in sports events for athletes with disabilities. Rigorous inspections are supposed to root out those who are only faking a handicap, but many imposters get through, like the supposedly blind athlete who cheered when she saw her result on the board. There are plenty of dissemblers among the participants, people who, in medical inspections, deliberately paint their state of health in more dramatic terms than it is, thereby competing under false pretenses in events that are becoming increasingly popular and also provide the opportunity to make a lot of money.
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