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To: Les H who wrote (216178)	8/18/2009 11:34:46 AM
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Olympic hopeful to earn his way in 2012 pimping A lot of women will need to have a lot of sex with a lot of men to get Logan Campbell to the 2012 Olympic Games. Yes, you read that right. Campbell, to cut a long story short, is a New Zealand taekwondo athlete who has opened a brothel to finance his ambition of winning an Olympic medal in London. At the last Games, in Beijing, Campbell competed in the 68-kilogram category only to be swept aside in the first round by eventual bronze medal winner Sung Yu-Chi of Taiwan. To do better in London, Campbell figures he needs roughly $200,000 so that he, a doctor and a coach can travel, train and compete beforehand in Europe and Asia. Unlike last time, Campbell doesn't want his parents to foot most of the bill. "My mother has wanted a new kitchen for the past 10 years but hasn't been able to do that because she has spent all her money on my taekwondo," he says. Hence his turn to brothel-keeping. He has more than a dozen women handing over half their earnings to him. It is, in his words, "a good moneymaking industry." Here's the question: Can a pimp be an Olympian? The answer would have to be "no." The two must be mutually exclusive if Olympic values are to be preserved. But this is a tricky one because, legally, Campbell is doing nothing wrong. New Zealand decriminalized prostitution six years ago. The parliamentary vote -- 60-59, with one lawmaker abstaining -- was a measure of how sensitive the issue was. stltoday.com