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| GREECE 1896 OLYMPIC 20 LEPTA VLASTOS 137 SCOTT SCOTT 121 4 SSHEETLETS ON SHEET | |
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| LEBANON 1961 Scott CB14a Olympics Incredible holding of 80 S S All VF MNH | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Canada SIGNED 2010 Olympic JERSEY | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Canada SIGNED 2010 Olympic JERSEY | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER AUTO 2010 OLYMPIC GOLD JERSEY COA HOL | |
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| CAPE VERDE 1980 OLYMPICS S S SOCCER SCOTT 409 x300 pcs NH CV 540000 | |
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| KOREA 1968 Scott 616 23 Olympics 13 sets All in Blocks or pairs VF MNH | |
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| Greece 1906 Olympic Sport Scott 195 196 197 Mint | |
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| CAPE VERDE 1980 OLYMPICS S S SOCCER SCOTT 409 x200 pcs NH CV 360000 | |
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| CAPE VERDE 1980 OLYMPICS S S SOCCER SCOTT 409 x200 pcs NH CV 360000 | |
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| Hungary Magyar Posta 1976 Olympic Games stamp Montrealscott 2424 Excellent C | |
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| HONDURAS MEXICO OLYMPICS SHEETS SCOTTC429 35V CV1398+ | |
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| Team Canada Volleyball Jersey Olympics Game Worn Autographed Scott Koskie Asics | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Olympic SIGNED 16x20 w Vancouver 2010 Gold | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Olympic SIGNED 16x20 w Vancouver 2010 Gold | |
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| 100 1992 OLYMPIC SCOTT FORTUNE VOLLEYBALL CARDS 92 | |
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| Greece Olympic Stamp Scott 195 197 Mint OG 260 | |
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| CAPE VERDE 1980 OLYMPICS S S SOCCER SCOTT 408 x140 APROX NH CV 252000 | |
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| 1910 T229 PET CIGARETTES J SCOTT LEARY SGC 30 SWIMMING OLYMPIC CLUB TOBACCO CARD | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Canada Olympic Gold SIGNED 16x20 Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER 2010 Olympic SIGNED 16x20 Canada Flag Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Canada Olympic Gold SIGNED 16x20 Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER 2010 Olympic SIGNED 16x20 Canada Flag Photo | |
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| RUSSIA 1964 Scott 2926a Olympics Souvenir Sheet in Green Very Fine Mint NH | |
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| US EFO SCOTT C109 OLYMPIC PERF SHIFT W GUTTER MNH | |
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| QATAR 1966 Scott 119 119B Olympics Horses Perf Imperf set + Imperf S S | |
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| QATAR 1966 Scott 119 119B Olympics Horses Perf Imperf set + Imperf S S | |
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| Germany 1936 Both Olympic Souvenir Sheets Scott B91 92 | |
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| France Stamps Olympic Games 1924 Scott 198 1 MNH | |
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| ALBANIA OLYMPICS SCOTT 706 709A MNH s1914 | |
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| JSA SCOTT NIEDERMAYER SIGNED 2010 Olympics Team Canada 11x14 GOLD Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER 2010 Olympic Games Logo SIGNED PUCK | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER 2010 Olympic Games SIGNED PUCK Canada | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER 2010 Olympic Gold Medal SIGNED PUCK | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER 2010 Olympic Games Logo SIGNED PUCK | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER 2010 Olympic Games SIGNED PUCK Canada | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER 2010 Olympic Gold Medal SIGNED PUCK | |
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| 100 1991 OLYMPIC SCOTT HAMILTON FIGURE SKATING CARDS | |
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| 100 1996 OLYMPIC SCOTT HAMILTON FIGURE SKATING CARDS | |
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| SCOTT HAMILTON SIGNED 1984 OLYMPICS PHOTO 8x10 USA GOLD | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Team Canada SIGNED 8x10 Photo Olympic Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Olympic SIGNED 8x10 Photo Canada Flag Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Team Canada SIGNED 8x10 Photo Olympic Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Canada Olympic Gold SIGNED 8x10 Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Olympic SIGNED 8x10 Photo Canada Flag Photo | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER Canada Olympic Gold SIGNED 8x10 Photo | |
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| Greece Greek Olympics Foot Race on Scott 196 1906 issue Used 1907 CDS | |
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| French Polynesia Scott C136a MNH Montreal Olympics S S | |
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| YEMEN NORTH YEMEN SCOTT 99A SEE NOTE MNH OLYMPIC | |
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| Australian Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Gold Medalists 16 sheets Scott 1675 90 | |
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| Scott Hamilton Hot signed Olympic skating 8x10 photo PSA DNA cert PROOF | |
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| Scott 1695 98 Winter Olympics SEVEN 7 Fresh Sheets | |
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| USA 1991 Scott 2542 14 Eagle in Flight Olympics VF MNH UR plate block | |
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| Canada 1975 Olympic Sculptures 2 Scott 657 268412 | |
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| WARM UP SUIT USED BY GOLD MEDALIST SCOTT JOHNSON IN 1984 LA OLYMPIC GAMES | |
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| INDOCHINA Ovpt VIETMINH North VIETNAM Scott1L4 5 Olympic Athlete MNH CV 500 | |
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| German Scotts SP69 B82 B89 May 81936 Summer Olympics | |
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| German Scotts set 9N101 9N102 Exhibition Hall Olympic Stadium1953 1954 | |
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| France Scott 198 201 A24 A27 8th Olympic Ganes Paris | |
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| France 1924 Scott 198 201 8th Olympic Games in Paris | |
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| Los Angeles Olympic Poster 1984 Steve Scott | |
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| SCOTT HAMILTON signed LANDING IT Book COA OLYMPIC GOLD Medalist | |
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| Scott 2619 BASEBALL OLYMPIC POSTAGE STAMP SHEET 1991 OLMPICS Beautiful Colors | |
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| Paraguay stamp S S MNH Olympics Munich 72 Michel bl 141 Scott 1268 | |
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| Tessa and Scott Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Olympic Gold Virtue Tessa | |
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| SCOTT HAMILTON OLYMPIC SKATER PSA DNA SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO | |
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| Scott Niedermayer SIGNED 8x10 Photo TEAM CANADA Olympic PSA DNA AUTOGRAPHED | |
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| SYRIA STAMPS OLYMPICS SCOTT 133 6 CV 140 + | |
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| BARBARA ANN SCOTT KING SIGNED CANADIAN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL INDEX CARD WITH PROOF | |
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| German Scotts set B79 81 SP69 Nov251935 Winter Olympics Bavaria Feb6 16 1936 | |
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| Tessa and Scott Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Olympic Gold Virtue Tessa | |
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| Yugoslavia Stamps Scott 461 468 on 1956 Olympic Cover | |
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| New Caledonia Scott cat C56 Grenoble Olympics Deluxe Proof | |
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| SYRIA 1924 Scott 133 36 Olympics Very Fine Mint Original Gum VLH | |
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| LEBANON 1924 Scott 18 21 Olympics Very Fresh set Mint Original Gum Hinged | |
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| USA 1991 Scott 2541 995 Eagle Olympics Express VF MNH UL plate block | |
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| Figure Skater SCOTT HAMILTON Signed Autographed 8x10 Photo COA OLYMPIC GOLD | |
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| USA 1991 Scott 2541 995 Eagle Olympics Express VF MNH UR plate block | |
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| SYRIA STAMPS OLYMPICS SCOTT 166 9 CV 11600 | |
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| Germany Scott B82 89 Olympics VF Mint NH Set | |
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| Scott Hamilton USA Olympic Skater SIGNED 8x10 Photo COA | |
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| 1980 WINTER OLYMPICS SKI JUMP STAMP Scott 1797 Signed Artist Print FDC | |
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| SCOTT MOIR TESSA VIRTUE SIGNED OLYMPICS 8X10 PROOF | |
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| SCOTT MOIR TESSA VIRTUE SIGNED OLYMPICS 8X10 PROOF 2 | |
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| SCOTT NIEDERMAYER signed 2010 OFFICIAL OLYMPIC PUCK | |
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| STEVE SCOTT Signed 1980 Sports Illustrated Olympics Track and Field | |
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| Olympics Champion Scott Hamilton signed book Landing it | |
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| Scott Olympic Ski Poles | |
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| Greece 1900 Olympic Surcharges Scott 160 | |
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| Stars On Ice Signed by Scott Hamilton 1998 HCDJ Olympic Gold Metal Barry Wilner | |
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| COLLECTIBLE OLD SCRAPBOOK BARBARA ANN SCOTT OLYMPIC SKATER AND SIBY TATE | |
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| Poland FDC Scott 1205 Note Michel 1464 Bk 32 Olympics | |
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| SYRIA STAMPS OLYMPICS SCOTT 133 6 CV 12000 | |
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| Syria Syrie Scott 133 36 Olympics Mint LH set Cat 120 | |
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| Syria Syrie Scott 166 69 Olympics Mint LH set Cat 116 | |
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| Scott Moir Tessa Virtue SIGNED 8x10 2010 OLYMPICS 2 | |
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| Scott 2637 41 BARCELONA SUMMER OLYMPICS STAMP SHEET SoccerBoxingSwimming etc | |
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| Paraguay 1980 Lake Placid Olympics S S FDC Scott 1956 | |
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TITLE: The Olympic Games Are Due Into London In Less Than Five Hundred Days, But Will They Totally Live Up To Expectations Or Will The Bad Side Of Sport Ruin The Party
I’ve been into various sports since childhood, having been encouraged to watch football by my buddy when I was approximately eight years old. John was lucky enough to get a ticket for the F.A. Cup Final one year, and I, with childish enthusiasm, spent the afternoon following the match on television in the hope that I would be able to find him in the stands. Needless to say, I didn’t see him, but I had got hooked by the spectacle of the big match. In my teens I evolved into a dedicated football fan, with the results round-up at five o’clock|5pm|tea-time on a Saturday afternoon impacting on my wellbeing for the rest of the weekend. Luckily for my family, I followed a team who won more regularly than they lost!
In time, I set out to watch numerous other sports on television. Test cricket was soon a firm favourite after a bout of glandular fever left me holed up indoors during a series in the West Indies, snooker had been coaxed from the pubs and clubs of the British Isles and transformed into primetime viewing by way of some creative marketing and the realisation that this was a game that was relatively cheap and straightforward to broadcast. And then there was the Olympic Games, a magnificent sporting spectacle which took place every four years and in which the whole world participated on level terms. Or so we were led to believe.
Since my earliest recollection of anything relating to the Olympics was the dreadful events which happened in Munich in 1972, it’s maybe odd that I loved the whole idea of the event so completely. But the same games also delivered Mark Spitz’s amazing tally of seven gold medals in the swimming pool – an achievement only bettered thirty-six years later by Michael Phelps. Years of viewing Communist regime athletes effortlessly outperforming everyone else aided by performance enhancing drugs which were not identified didn’t diminish my enthusiasm either, and I have enthusiastically watched as much coverage as I could over the years – until now. (Is it any great shock that I now need glasses to see properly and am considering having Laser eye surgery? Too many hours spent watching sport on the small screen!)
No matter how much I try, I’m finding it a problem to build up any enthusiasm for the London Games. Even relations who really don’t have any interest in sport are of the opinion that they’d probably like to go and spectate at a couple of events, as it may be the only chance that they have in their lifetime, yet I, who used to be such an enthusiastic sports fan, and can travel to the main Olympic stadium in less than an hour from my house, have no inclination to buy tickets.
I think that there are a few reasons for this. Firstly, I am bored of the number of scandals and unsavoury events that seem to sully many sports – pub fight footballers, bribed cricketers, drug cheat athletes, jockeys throwing races for backhanders, and in the background, the dodgy characters who instigate much of the damage and who create such havoc simply for personal financial gain.
Secondly, big business has muscled in on on so many events now. Everything has corporate branding, events are timed to fit in with television executives wishes rather than the fans, sportsmen and women are told which clothes they must wear and what products they must endorse, including diet supplements and Laser eye treatments – aren’t these actually ‘legal’ cheating? But the reality for the public is paying crazy prices to watch an event in order to top up the corporate pockets of those who are running the show, and without always being certain if teams or competitors are really playing against each other on equal terms. The golfer who sings the praises of Laser eye surgery - doesn’t the treatment give him an unfair advantage? The football team whose owners have employed some obscure type of therapist – is everything he encourages the team to do totally legal?
Finally, I don’t spot the wealth of personalities in sport any more. There are a few characters who could be described as entertaining, but due to the money now involved, most sportspeople don’t believe that they can say a few crazy things every now and then because anything they do or say may impact on their contract. I find myself longing for another Daley Thompson, Graham Hill, Tommy Smith, Joe Bugner or John McEnroe (though I can imagine that he’d probably be advertising Laser eye treatment if he was still playing at his peak now – but for the tennis officials rather than himself!)