ellis cashmore who's also a former sports and media lecturer and also a veteran sports writer john goodbody a former long time correspondent for britain's times sunday times newspapers welcome both ellis come kick off with you politicizing the olympic games in any way it just sounds wrong doesn't that isn't the point of the limpid games it's very essence it's spirit that. know that they're competing in a fair or transparent a neutral environment away from politics. 20 years ago but practically going to 36 that was in berlin has been. i'm not going to so politicized some have been of virtually infiltrated by political interest groups but of for the most part it's difficult to find a limpid games that haven't been affected in some way by surrounding events that those events may be social that may be political that maybe cultural but the i.o.c. doesn't live in a vacuum and nor does the game so it does always reflect what's going on in the world that side so the short answer to your question is that it is not possible to have a completely politics free limpid games john the point being made by