OLYMPIC FLIP
I read a most interesting observation about the Winter Olympics the other day:
“It is not about winning” he said and I smugly awaited the old canard about taking part.
“It’s about losing.”
He had everyone’s attention.
“Think about it. Let’s say each sport has a hundred competitors and you have fifty sports, that means by the end of the games you have fifty winners and four-thousand-nine-hundred-and-fifty losers. And look how well behaved and civilized that whole thing is.”
And it came from an even more interesting source - a Chassidic Jewish blogger.
I'd honestly never thought about it that way.
“It is not about winning” he said and I smugly awaited the old canard about taking part.
“It’s about losing.”
He had everyone’s attention.
“Think about it. Let’s say each sport has a hundred competitors and you have fifty sports, that means by the end of the games you have fifty winners and four-thousand-nine-hundred-and-fifty losers. And look how well behaved and civilized that whole thing is.”
And it came from an even more interesting source - a Chassidic Jewish blogger.
I'd honestly never thought about it that way.
2 Comments:
At May 06, 2006 10:16 PM, Anonymous said…
Hi! I really enjoy your blog. Is there any way to get an RSS feed of it?
At May 10, 2006 4:39 PM, M said…
Actually, that guy's view of the olympics is how I view March Madness, the college basketball national tournament.
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