We're told about the "Olympic spirit" as if it's represents some human goodness.
The Olympic spirit is about competition and trying to be better than everyone else. It's purely an egotistical endeavour. The athletes who can run the fastest or jump the furthest have no real useful qualities for the human race. Not once has someone running a hundred metres increasing our understanding of the world we live in. Not once has someone throwing a shot put reduced poverty or inequality....it's just a self led ambition to be the best at something.
And while I'm at it, swimming is not, and has never been, a sport....it's just something you do to stop yourself drowning.
The athletes pretend that they do it for their country and hide their ego behind flags and anthems but when it really comes down to it they just want to be able to say...I'm the best, and we hold them up in great esteem, give them knighthoods, pay for their training and buy the products they sponsor. So that's why I'm saying fuck the Olympics, fuck the corrupt IOC, fuck Redgrave, Radcliffe and Sue-Cocking-Barker.
We never win anything anyway.
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i found this very entertaining, even though i fundamentally disagree...sport is the only true form of meritocracy out there, and the olympics is the pinnacle of that.
I disagree too.
ah but lee that's kind of the point....it's pseudo-meritocracy...
Their achievements are utterly pointless. They're just the same as the man who holds the record for attaching clothes pegs to his flappy face.
If you want meritocracy, what's wrong with the Nobel Prize?
What's wrong with the Nobel prize is that there isn't one for maths! At best a mathmo can hope to win the economics Nobel like that chunky guy in A Beautiful Mind, but it should really have its own prize!
Gautam, haven't you seen Good Will Hunting? Isn't that what the Fields Medal is all about?!
Meanwhile, on topic of the thread - "We never win anything anyway" 3rd in the medal table means I and all the angry australians disagree with you on more than one aspect of the post.
I'm not sure you can call it pseudo-meritocracy at all.
Regardless of how 'pointless' you think they may be, you seem to be suggesting that it is somehow not a fair contest or that the acheivments of athletes have not been based on years of training and dedication.
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