More to the Olympics than gold - John Dixon's view
Borthlas: More to the olympics than gold
The opinion poll finding that most people in Wales think that the Olympics will be of no benefit to Wales is hardly a surprise.
It would be a bit like an opinion poll finding that the majority of people believe the world to be round.
Whilst there’s always a minority whose beliefs fly in the face of the objective evidence, most of us are willing to believe that which is factually evidenced.
More interesting though would have been the supplementary question which appears not to have been asked, and that is whether the UK should still be staging the Games regardless of the question of economic benefit. There is a sort of assumption that ‘no benefit’ leads automatically to ‘don’t do’. That doesn’t only apply to the Games, of course; but I’d challenge the assumption.
More on the Borthlas blog . . .
The opinion poll finding that most people in Wales think that the Olympics will be of no benefit to Wales is hardly a surprise.
It would be a bit like an opinion poll finding that the majority of people believe the world to be round.
Whilst there’s always a minority whose beliefs fly in the face of the objective evidence, most of us are willing to believe that which is factually evidenced.
More interesting though would have been the supplementary question which appears not to have been asked, and that is whether the UK should still be staging the Games regardless of the question of economic benefit. There is a sort of assumption that ‘no benefit’ leads automatically to ‘don’t do’. That doesn’t only apply to the Games, of course; but I’d challenge the assumption.
More on the Borthlas blog . . .
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