The Olympics As A career

Just like the WWE, the Olympics are fast becoming sports "entertainment":

BEIJING (Reuters) - When Laurie Lever turned 60 last October, the last thing on his mind was retirement with the Australian show jumper focused on riding in his first Olympics.

Lever is one of a growing number of older athletes competing in the Olympics rather than watching from the stands with Japanese horseman Hiroshi Hoketsu leading the pack at Beijing, returning to the Games after a 44-year break aged 67.

U.S. swimmer Dara Torres, who is 41 and has a two-year-old daughter, created a media stir by making it to her fifth Olympics as the oldest American to swim at the Games.

Forty-one years old with a two-year-old kid. And we don't have any dedicated young swimmers that can retire this aging woman? She is the best we can offer?

Past Olympic champions like Mark Spitz must be hanging their heads in shame.

Won't be long now before the "arraigned" champion of any event will be the one selling the most T-shirts.