Comments on: IOC vote breathes new life into Modern Pentathlon http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/12/ioc-vote-breathes-new-life-into-modern-pentathlon/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:40:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: iswthunder http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/12/ioc-vote-breathes-new-life-into-modern-pentathlon/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:21:32 +0000 http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/?p=29857#comment-248 “We have promised things and we have delivered”

No doubt that these deliveries came in unmarked envelopes.

]]> By: targhee159 http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/12/ioc-vote-breathes-new-life-into-modern-pentathlon/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:05:26 +0000 http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/?p=29857#comment-208 “Tradition is one of our strongest assets…”

Really? A sport created for the wealthy elite in Europe a century ago has more tradition than a sport which was added as an Olympic sport in 700 B.C. and included since the very first modern Olympics?

All you need to know about this decision is that the head of the MP governing body is the son of a former IOC President. That, and rich horse owners can pay bigger bribes than wrestlers.

]]> By: 69jaredallen69 http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/12/ioc-vote-breathes-new-life-into-modern-pentathlon/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:19:53 +0000 http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/?p=29857#comment-196 The IOC has proven to be dirty in the past and this reeks of bribes…if TV ratings and ticket sales were part of the criteria used to select the eliminated event how does Modern Pentathlon make the cut? I love the Olympics but I had to look up what the heck it even entailed.

]]>