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IOC’s Bach sees ‘new world order’ ahead of LA Olympics; says Trump will fully support games

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Pipe down Bach. Everyone can see that the IOC has fully transformed into an Uber-"Progressive" globalist circus, shoving its radical agenda down everyone's throats while trampling over everything the Olympics was supposed to stand for - actual sport.

Their obsession with allowing biological MEN to compete in women's sports is nothing short of an assault on fairness and common sense, robbing female athletes of the opportunities they've worked their entire lives for.

And we won't even get started on the blasphemous disaster that was the Paris opening ceremony - a grotesque display of decay disguised as "queer art."

Now, with this bloke's "New World Order" declaration ahead of LA, they aren't even pretending anymore! This isn't about sports; it's about pushing a GLOBALIST agenda, reshaping the world to fit their dystopian vision. Time to reject this nonsense.

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The 71-year-old German lawyer and 1976 Olympic gold medalist in fencing leaves office in June.

Good riddance to bad garbage.

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Good riddance to bad garbage.

And some. He was a nasty piece of work. Whoever is next will have to remove his unpleasant stench from the organisation.

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And some. He was a nasty piece of work. Whoever is next will have to remove his unpleasant stench from the organisation.

I couldn't agree more!

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The US President can offer cheer leading and the power of the office in support, but the USGovt doesn't provide financial support for this stuff. It is up to the corporate/individual sponsors, local city and state to fund everything.

The way the collegiate sports system supports the US Olympic team is in providing events, venues, and training. Most collegiate sports are funded by the school system which can be a state govt. The federal govt doesn't fund sports scholarships for college athletes.

The US isn't like Russia or China where the centralized govt effectively pays people to be athletes. Some other countries do have programs, often through military service to pay elite level athletes to train for their sport. It think Germany works this way for some sports and it is likely how most Russian athletes do it as well, but not all.

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Bach and the IOC are only concerned with "Show me the money." That and making sure men can take over women's sports

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Some of his points are valid,such as free-to-air viewing for all.

That's how many children from impoverished countries and backgrounds were inspired to become the best athletes in the world.

However, holding events in one location is outdated and unsustainable.

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Great Olympic LA news, another catalyst for LA to recover from horrible fires, that spread due to Govt. mismanagement, no water in reservoirs or fire hydrants

Gov. Gavin Newscum will try to smooth talk no doubt and not take any responsibility for his failed leadership!

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LA hates Trump. Whatever he says is of no consequence.

The LA '84 Olympics made a profit. '28 will likely be the same. The federal government can just butt out.

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The IOC is, with FIFA, one of the most corrupt organizations on Earth, so I understand why they get along well with Trump

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Given him a big enough bribe, and sure, Trump will support the Olympic Games. I would expect nothing less from a convicted felon.

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Great Olympic LA news, another catalyst for LA to recover from horrible fires, that spread due to Govt. mismanagement, no water in reservoirs or fire hydrants

Mismanagement is a perception. As much as I don't like lots of the govt choices in California, I don't think the state is mismanaged.

As for low reservoirs, that's happening everywhere in the western USA which has been under a drought for 20+ yrs. It isn't mismanagement. It is climate change tied with over population. Too many needs for too little water.

Much of the southwestern US has been a desert and it is reverting to that as water priorities change from landscaping/grass to drinking and food production by necessity.

There's a like down the middle of the US where on the west side of that line, there is a serious drought and on the eastern side, it is much better. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus has a clear map. Western SD, Nebraska, then down through the center of Kansas, OK, and TX (just east of Austin and San Antonia, which are always in drought). 50 miles east of Austin if beautiful pasture country.

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Great Olympic LA news, another catalyst for LA to recover from horrible fires, that spread due to Govt. mismanagement, no water in reservoirs or fire hydrants

Govt mismanagement is opening up the WRONG reservoir

‘Ridiculous blunder’: Trump wades into California’s water wars – and strikes some of his strongest supporters - Billions of gallons of irrigation water were wasted under Trump’s orders in what now appears to be a political stunt

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/california-water-trump

Under orders from Donald Trump, billions of gallons of irrigation water were laid waste in California’s thirsty agricultural hub this month, a move that left water experts shocked and local officials scrambling.

The water, stored in two reservoirs operated by the army corps of engineers, is a vital source for many farms and ranches in the state’s sprawling and productive San Joaquin valley during the driest times of the year. It will be especially important in the coming months as the region braces for another brutally hot summer with sparse supplies.

The reservoirs are also among the few the US president can control directly.

Staged to give weight to Trump’s widely debunked claims that flows could have helped Los Angeles during last month’s devastating firestorm and to show that he holds some power over California’s water, he ordered the army corps to flood the channels. Less than an hour of notice was reportedly given to water authorities down-river who rushed to prepare for the unexpected release, which threatened to inundate nearby communities.

Experts, who were left scratching their heads in the aftermath, have found no justification for the order. The reservoirs were not at risk of overflowing and irrigation is not necessary during the wetter winter months. These releases also did not support threatened ecosystems such as those in the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta, where contentious debates continue about flows and diversions.

Some have suggested the flows will help bolster groundwater stores, “but a lot of that water will end up evaporating,” said Holyoke. “It’s just going to be water lost – and they know it.”

“Those releases had absolutely zero to do with anything to do in Los Angeles,” said Gregory Pierce, a water policy expert and the director of the UCLA Water Resources Group, adding that this also did not benefit anyone in the central valley. “This was a stunt purely so Trump could say that he did something and released the water.”

That water would never have reached the Los Angeles fire (different water basins). It's reservoir water that the farmers need during the dry days of summer. Trump just wasted the farmers' water

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