Bolo
03 Oct 2009, 01:53 PM
Who TF is Rowdy Gaines? Yes, I know I could Google him. But based on that comment why should I bother?
Don't bother, his importance was only in the pool, nothing to do with USOC or IOC, at least not enough to make the claim against President Bush credible.
The more likely and reasonable (and less partisan political) motivation would be red spot map that showed zero dots in the entire continent of S. America hosting the Olympics.
That said the whole IOC voting delegate system is totally screwy.
Europe has 43% of the delegates and 11% of the world population, while Asia has 21% of the delegates and 60% of the worlds population.
Heck the US with (2) has fewer delegates than the Netherlands and Australia (3) each and Switzerland (5). The worst by far is India, the second most populous country in the world has 1 delegate.
Delegate count courtesy of fivethirtyeight.com
Don't bother, his importance was only in the pool, nothing to do with USOC or IOC, at least not enough to make the claim against President Bush credible.
The more likely and reasonable (and less partisan political) motivation would be red spot map that showed zero dots in the entire continent of S. America hosting the Olympics.
That said the whole IOC voting delegate system is totally screwy.
Europe has 43% of the delegates and 11% of the world population, while Asia has 21% of the delegates and 60% of the worlds population.
Heck the US with (2) has fewer delegates than the Netherlands and Australia (3) each and Switzerland (5). The worst by far is India, the second most populous country in the world has 1 delegate.
Delegate count courtesy of fivethirtyeight.com