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Why Do Mountain Bikers Think Being Abusive Helps Their Cause?!

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    What an intelligent email!

    ....full of evidence and ideas...

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    From: Mike Vandeman <[email hidden]>
    To: "General Xue" <[email hidden]>
    Subject: Abusive, unsolicited email
    Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:28:08 -0700

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    Subject: dropping mountain biking from the olympics
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    At 11:12 PM 6/10/04 +0000 said:

    Dear Sir/Madam

    I came across your letter to the International Olympic Committee on
    the web, and would like to take the opportunity to express my views
    on the matter.

    Being a mountain biker myself, I was terribly disheartened to see
    such a mis-informed person making these rash statements about
    mountain biking causing "devastating erosion". As far as I have
    seen, this is wildly inaccurate. The mountain bikers in my country
    (the UK) take great pride in the countryside that gives them
    enjoyment, and look after it very well. The British Cycling
    Federation works very closely with the Forestry Commission to make
    sure that wildlife is well cared for. In this light, comparing
    mountain biking to "open-pit mining" is just downright offensive.
    What evidence do you have for your statement that "Many mountain
    bikers also lack sportsmanship?" It's completely unfounded.

    You are the proof. Thank you for confirming that I am right!

    Quoted message said:

    Also, your statement that "one fourth of all of the world's animals
    are threatened with extinction" is untrue, unless you can count
    extinction as 'the species being great in number' It is a fact of
    life that certain animals become extinct whilst others remain, and
    it would happen regardless of the sports that people partake in.

    Thanks for demonstrating your UTTER ignorance of basic biology.

    Quoted message said:

    Have you not thought of the environmental impact that other Olympic
    sports have? For, if mountain biking were to have a negative impact
    on the environment, then other sports must also have. Take javelin,
    for example. Javelins thrusting into the mud at speed must kill
    hundreds of small creatures every day. And running - this sport
    requires huge tracks to be built over the habitats of wildlife,
    which surely has a huge impact on the species that inhabit them. I
    could carry on like this all day, and eventually we would have no
    Olympics, and a centuries-old tradition would be lost.

    Good riddance. It is totally obsolete, riddled with drugs,
    corruption, and environmental devastation.

    Quoted message said:

    Yours sincerely,

    Dean Wybrow.

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