Pope Francis warns against commercialising athletes
Found on BBC News on Saturday, 23 November 2013
The Pope told Olympic leaders that looking for profit and victory at all costs risked reducing athletes "to mere trading material".
Addressing the delegates of the European Olympic Committees at the Vatican on Saturday, the Pope said: "When sport is considered only in economic terms and consequently for victory at every cost, it risks reducing athletes to mere trading material from whom profits are extracted.''
Sport is all about money. The original thoughts about a fair competition between athletes have vanished a long time ago.