Your objections will be noted, Mrs Armstrong.
But to get back to the point of the meeting, could I hear from the rest of you what you feel? Sr Cordoba, for example, what's your opinion?
Reluctant as I am to alter the composition of the Olympic Games,
I can see the point that in terms of space and financial demands, the host city is subjected to a lot of difficulty.
The costs seem to soar phenomenally every time we stage the Olympics, so we might be able to make one or two savings here and there.
There is, for instance, quite a strong lobby against boxing because of its apparently violent nature, so I did wonder if... But that is one of the most popular sports in the world, and one of the oldest. Agreed, but people get a lot of boxing on their television screens all the year round.
So I was just thinking that we might be able to drop that from the programme.
Football too, is another thing which already enjoys a lot of television coverage, and as it takes up a lot of space accommodating all the football pitches, mightn't we also perhaps consider dropping that too?
Mr Chairman? Yes, Mrs Patel. I wholeheartedly endorse what Sr Cordoba said about boxing and football.
In my opinion, we should concentrate on some of the more unusual sports which are rarely seen on our screens such as fencing and archery, for a change, since it is on TV that the majority of people watch the Games.
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