Yes! Close it down. It's one of the outstanding bread and circuses bribes beloved of the ancient Romans and modern-day governments. The sort of thing that keeps feeble minds off the big issues.

Yes, any institution that doesn't fit the far right's fanatical world view should be closed down, and replaced with loud speakers blurting out messages of hate and anger from the 'New Fuhrer' Pauline.

Australia should fund the OLD FART OLYMPICS, me thinks we have a few "athletes" on OLO up for it, a world champ in the octogenarians Zimmer Frame marathon in a world record time of 2 days 23 hours 47 minutes, nanny naps included!

"any institution that doesn't fit the far right's fanatical world view should be closed down"

Well, socialists like Hitler and Stalin have always been big fans of sport and institutionalised drug use to enhance performance. Maybe they wanted people to think they were wonderful countries that produced superhumans? China even staged a robot games recently.

As for 'far right', Was Churchill 'far right'? He was not a fan of either the communist or fascist orthodoxies of socialism, socialist nations hated him, and to this day he is vilified by Russia.

After a few years of Melonhead Magoo's malarkey is it any wonder that people are jack of anything with a socialist taint?

Hi Fester,

As soon as Extremists like Hitler and Stalin gain power, one of the first agenda items is the total politicisation of institutions, such as the legal system, and the setting up of new state controlled institutions to manage society. Accordingly everything should serve the state, that includes sport. You claim these fanatics are socialists, actually they were totalitarian extremists, not socialists. Your hatred of a moderate like Albanese blinds you to the reality of what a liberal democracy like ours really is.