The Olympic Spirit…

…is not about a bunch of rich professional basketball players running up the score on an emerging African nation to sell $199 sneakers and 99 cent cheeseburgers.

Rather, I think, it’s more about a bunch of guys who shook off their shackles to wear tie-dye shirts provided by the Grateful Dead while winning bronze as they beat their former oppressors. That was Lithuania in 1992, the same year the original “dream team” of American pros created the phenomenon that’s metastasized into the ugly display we saw in London today.

You should read about them here or here.

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