With its program of paying and supporting full-time athletes and claiming them to be amateurs, the Russian Communists destroyed for all time the ideal of international amateur athletics. U.S. Olympic sponsors even paid cash bounties this year for medals our peiople won, and who can guess what all transpires beneath the tip of the athletic iceberg.
Nowhere is professionalism more conspicuous than in basketball, in which we merely send our pro basketball players and make no bones about it. I'm glad both our men and women's basketball teams won gold medals and was frankly relieved that Kobe Bryant didn't rape anyone.
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