Sylverin says...
Once again, it's that quadrennial time when all the world's professional athletes come together and compete against each other to see who is the best. And with them comes the media attention, the fantastic display of sporting perfection, a unification of the nations of the world as we celebrate our athletes success.
Sadly though, there is always one in every bunch. You know who I mean. The one's who would rather lie to themselves and their countries by taking some kind of illegal performance enhancing drug to win gold. It reeks of desperation. It proves to themselves that they have taken the cowardly path to glory. When they stand beside their competitors on the winners podium, I do hope they feel guilty. Guilty and the burning sensation of my mental knife sticking out of their ribs. Thankfully, there are so few of them at each Olympics, otherwise I would have stopped watching long ago.
Speaking of watching the games themselves, I am mildly disappointed with the coverage. There are only so many times I can watch the same repetitive photo reels with supposedly popular music that Channel Seven delights in putting up. While it is good and all to do so at the beginning and end of their coverage segments, they are really testing mine and everyone else' patience when they cut from an event that is good to watch to one of these bullet-timed displays between three and four events.
*Sigh*
On a more positive note, I am inspired by the amount of effort and time that the majority of Olympic athletes devote to achieving that level of sporting competency. One must remember, a good deal of them have spent their whole lives building up to this crowning moment. Consider if each and every one of us put in that amount of effort towards anything we did.
"The Olympic Games epitomise humanity at it's physical, mental and spiritual peak." - Sylverin
Finally, congratulations to all athletes, Australian or otherwise. You make us all proud to be called humans.
Sylverin
