The scam of scams was always the Olympics: Berlin in 1936 to Beijing in 2008. Engines of regeneration. Orgies of lachrymose nationalism.
War by other means. Warrior-athletes watched, from behind dark glasses, by men in suits and uniforms. The pharmaceutical frontline.
From Iain Sinclair’s ‘The Olympics Scam’, The London Review of Books (June 2008)
The Centre of the World 