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kitler53 on 27 July 2012
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wfz said:
kitler53 said:
SamuelRSmith said:
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  •  It's turned the competition of the world's best athletes into a nationalistic stomping ground. Achievements are not considered personal, but are attributed to nations, as a whole. As if I've had anything to do with anybody who wins a medal. I haven't, and I don't deserve any credit for it.

 


how has athletes ever been different?  not only were the olympics created for this reason specifically, when the packers won the superbowl i immediatly became a better person then my illinois native collegues.  that's half the point in having an althetics program...

and lolz if you think no one reconizes their personal achievements.  phelps is celebrated like a god here now-a-days. 


Agreed. Even if it's something he doesn't like, it's not an innate problem with the OLYMPICS. It's a "problem" with all of sports.

 

Team Sport = You do well and carry your team, entire team is happy and gets credit for being awesome

School Sport = Schools get credit and pride for winning teams

National Sports = Cities/States get credit and pride for their winning teams

International Sports = Countries get credit and pride for their winning teams

 

That's just how it works.


i don't even view it has a problem.  i don't like watching sports if there isn't a team i feel invested in.  i think most people share that.  that feeling of investment (in sharing the glory) is what keeps me paying to see sports events.  take that element out and you take out the audience (and money) as well.

 

  • It's become a celebration of pomp-and-circumstance. The over-engineered stadiums, press chambers, opening ceremonies, and the rest of it, really take away from the core of what the Olympics are about. Great athletism. In a way, this is similar to my first point, as much of it comes from hosting countries trying to outdo each other.

I also feel like dismissing this one now.  i have dinner parties with my friends.  there is a lot of pomp-and-circumstance around the event and it is costly to me to host but you know what ... it's these types of events that make life worth living.  take away my celebrations and what is left??  work and sleep?  fuck that.  i didn't travel to paris to see the "finacially-and-use appropriate effiel towerette" .. i came to see something wonderous, something amazing, something worth traveling for..