The point of the modern Olympics was to bring together the best sports men and women of the world together once every four years at a time when there was no such thing as professional sport and it spawned the Olympic Ideal. It has now become a huge irrelevance. It has fallen victim to big multinational business, politics and probable corruption. It serves no sporting purpose. Almost everyone competing there now in the major sports is professional. Football has the World Cup, Tennis has the Grand Slams, Athletics has bi-annual World Championships, Rugby Sevens has its own World Series etc. Only a few minority sports and the Paralympics will have any true amateurs at Rio. Either scale the Olympics back by excluding all professionals to restore the Olympic Ideal or just bin it altogether. Much as I enjoy all sport, I can't see the point of it as it stands any more.