Where there is official funding, there are officials!

I was amused by the news that India actually sent a "delegation" to the Winter Olympics. Not a team, but a delegation - 5 athletes (!) and 20 officials. This news would be truly amusing if not for the "opportunity cost" of the money involved - this is money that could have been put to a hundred good uses.

The case for letting unpopular games just die away only gets stronger - where the game cannot sustain itself but needs govt funds (that is, funds that shd be used for public education and infrastructure), it shd be allowed to fade into oblivion!

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