If there is anything that life showed me at a young age, during gym classes, it’s that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.
They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.
Again, they trained all their life for this, so what’s a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?
It’s not the athletes I took issue with, that’s their passions being taken advantage of. It was the fans I don’t understand. Could you just not miss watching it for a year or 4?
Listening to a football fan complain about Qatar and then still watch it was crazy to me. You explained so much on why nobody should watch it then watched it anyway!
If there is anything that life showed me at a young age, during gym classes, it’s that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.
They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.
Again, they trained all their life for this, so what’s a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?
It’s not the athletes I took issue with, that’s their passions being taken advantage of. It was the fans I don’t understand. Could you just not miss watching it for a year or 4?
Listening to a football fan complain about Qatar and then still watch it was crazy to me. You explained so much on why nobody should watch it then watched it anyway!