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[bill cobbett]

Return The Games To Shropshire, England .. and to.. OMG!!!! ...WTF!..
To (cough, cough) South London!!!!!!!!!! and To .... (don't believe this, cough, cough, splutter, splutter)......Scotland!!!!!!!!!!

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As some of the More (cough, cough) Enlightened Members will know the Wenlock Olympian Games have been held since 1850 and this year will be held for the 125th time (there were a couple of breaks for the usual world-wars) in the market town of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England.

The founder of The Official Olympian Games was a William Brookes, who held the widely held Victorian View that Amateur Sport could aid moral and intellectual improvement as well as physical well-being.

This is from the Minutes of the Organising Committee in brilliant Victorian prose...

"That it was desirable that a class should be established in connexion with the Agricultural Reading Society for the promotion of the moral, physical and intellectual improvement Of the inhabitants of the town & neighbourhood of Wenlock and especially of the Working classes, by the encouragement of out-door recreation, and by the award of Prizes annually at public meetings for skill in Athletic exercise and proficiency in Intellectual and industrial attainments."

A powerful Victorian idea that was soon to spread, with Olympian Games being held throughout Europe, and in 1859 Official Olympian Games were held in Atheneucia for the first time.

WTF! Hear you all say with one breath...well it's confirmed in this, another extract from the Minutes of the Olympian Society.. this a letter from the GB Ambassador In Greece...

"Athens, February 2nd 1860. Dear Sir, - I have the satisfaction to transmit to you the accompanying papers, copies from those of the Greeks, in Greek and translation, which will put you in possession of the manner in which this first attempt at the renewal of Athletic Exercises in Greece has been conducted."

Also recorded on the Minutes "that Olympian Games took place at Athens last November - the winner of the Wenlock prize being Petros Velissarios, a native of Smyrna"

... and the London Review reported refering to "Revival of the Olympian Games" writing:

"….At the revived, that is the modern, Olympian Games …. The largest prize was contributed by a committee of gentlemen in England, and in their honour was designated "The Wenlock Prize". This prize was assigned to " the best runner in the longest race".

In 1866 Brookes went on to found the National Olympian Association which held the First Olympian Festival at (and presumably partly in the) ....... (cough, cough!!!!) Crystal Palace! , which as a couple of you will know is on outskirts of (arghhhhhhhhh!) Occupied South London!!!

So where is the Baron de Coppertan, who is generally, and in the light of the above wrongly, given all the credit for the revival of Games in all this?

Well.... well ....well...certainly the Plagiarising Lord Coppertin knew of the Wenlock Games as this extract from the minutes reveals...

"A special or autumn festival in connection with Wenlock Olympian Society was held on Wednesday, under the presidency of Mr R. B. Benson, of Lutwyche Hall. The object of the festival was chiefly to enlighten Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French gentleman, who desires to introduce athletics more largely amongst his own countrymen, upon the methods adopted for the training of athletes in England. Dr Brookes, who is an untiring advocate of physical education among the young, was on this occasion largely instrumental in bringing about this meeting....

So from this we know that in 1890 the Thieving French Fraud Lord Bronze attended Olympian Games in Much Wenlock. (cough, cough, need a glass of water, will be back...)

But fear it get's worse...

The Plagiarising Copy and Paste French Lord was a recorded visitor to the Paris Exhibition of 1889 and it's on record that he watched and was particularly impressed by an exhibition of Scottish Highland Games there. For those of you who aren't familiar (cough, cough, excuse me) with Highland Games it's where (cough) Scottish people go around tossing ...(cough, must be up smoking) ... cabers, and hurling hammers and wrestle with wild haggis.

So where does the Thieving French Lord Bronze go with the ideas he'd hacked from the walls of The Temples of Virtuous Values of Victorian England and Scotland next? Well he makes contact with a couple of rich, local tax-avoiding Atheneucians and also in party with the Occupying and Internationally Recognised Government of GR of the day and conspires with them, whether with or without a Firman (photoshopped or otherwise is unknown) to steal, hijack and generally usurp the Inspirational Ideas and Worthy and Priceless Victorian Values of others.

So it's about time the Atheneucians and their Modern Day Co-conspirators, the greedy, gift-grabbing with well-greased palms, International Olympic Committee returned The Games...

......To Shropshire, England and .... (oh gawd... can't believe am saying this!).... to Braemar, Scotland..... and to Victorian Amateur Drug-Free Values.

[Jerry]

Hey Bill, where have you been?

Much Wenlock, a lovely little town, been there many times to visit my friend "optical Andy". Close to the birthplace of British iron industry at IronBridge on the banks of the Severn, you should visit it sometime lots of historic sites to see. http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/

[bill cobbett]

Hey Bill, where have you been?

Much Wenlock, a lovely little town, been there many times to visit my friend "optical Andy". Close to the birthplace of British iron industry at IronBridge on the banks of the Severn, you should visit it sometime lots of historic sites to see. http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/

Hi J, have visited more than once... well ... I do occasionally go north of South Mimms.

[denizaksulu]

BC mou, you should really take something for your chesty c. Do you have any zivania?:cry:

Happy new year too.

[Oracle]

The only good thing to come out of Shropshire ... mushrooms!

[bill cobbett]

Yes, A Happy and Very Colourful New Year to all.

[yialousa1971]

[Mr. T]

Hey Bill, where have you been?

Much Wenlock, a lovely little town, been there many times to visit my friend "optical Andy". Close to the birthplace of British iron industry at IronBridge on the banks of the Severn, you should visit it sometime lots of historic sites to see. http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/

Having lived in Ironbridge I respectfully wish to point out that your reference to this small town does not sufficiently describe it and neighbouring hamlets' importance as the birthplace of the Industrial evolution and the modern industrial world.

The world's first iron bridge was built there and remains magnificent to this day.

The county town of Shrewsbury, not that far distant, has a building of much historical importance too. It was the first building in the world to be built with an iron frame (a flax mill, built 1797) and is the forerunner of the world's skyscrappers.

[Gasman]

Ironbridge Shrops. One of my favourite spots in the UK.