[This excerpt from Simonovic's great sports book, “Philosophy of Olympism” (available from his web site linked on the right of this blog], along with a short cut from his new book “The Olympic Deceit of The ‘Divine Baron’ – Pierre de Coubertin”, which I've been buffing up to post here a little later, have really taken me back to when I believed that Sports was the last refuge of the truly whole mind. Actually that was Holmes's line, but I remember using it in every sports bar I ever got thrown out of on Monday Night Football nights, and in ...   more »