The human spirits of the Olympics

The human spirits of the Olympics

It shows the best of us and the worst of us during the Olympics.

First start with the controversy that the US Olympic attires are made in China. What attires are made in USA?

Despite the no positive testing from the Olympics committee, John Leonard accused the 'suspicious' Chinese 16-year-old swimmer. Another US swimmer from nowhere did the same and no one accused her of doping.  Guess which country is among those whose athletes have been tested positive? Not China. He represents the silly swimming coaches, but not me.

Then the media got into the wagon as controversy sells. The ‘prestigious’ Nature magazine did apologize in the web; due to the pressures from their sponsors? Some pointed out the human sufferings of the athletes in China. They forgot the same sufferings of the US athletes and their parents. Some were bankrupt and many do not get good jobs after the game despite a fistful of former medalists making good money. At least there is no sexual abuse reported on Chinese coaches. If they have sex with a 14 year old or below, it is automatic, death penalty. If we have the same rule, many coaches in US should die and we would not have clergymen molesting altar boys as part of the sport.

Some argued China should win more medals as their population is four times ours. From this logic, India should be #2. They forgot it is not the population, but the resources per capita or GNP per capita that matters.

China never wants to be #1 as US always wants. I’m glad China is behind in medal counts by now. The disqualification in badminton game is good. The timing is bad as it happened before. It is the rules of the game to be blamed, then the coaches who plan for win according to the game rules, and then the athletes. I would be angry to watch this game that I pay good money for.

We need to understand the Olympics will not solve our global problems such as debts, poverty and even obesity that the Olympics should promote as opposing to be #1, jealousy, bias and other bad human natures. US is a nation of fatsos but score the most Olympic medals for centuries. How ironic!

The better human spirits are shown by the Muslim girl. I wonder what they wear in beach volleyball. Religion needs to adapt to the global culture to some extent. The amputated athlete won our hearts. He could be the only one who participates in two Olympics in the same year. The Malaysian diver just lifted the spirit of a nation, same as the one Hong Kong won a long while ago and same for the first Tibetan who won an Olympic medal. These are the treasures and why we enjoy the Olympics.

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