Personnally, I think the Olympics are a great example of determination, not only for the participants, but also for all the organization surrounding an event of that scale. It really takes some courage, some guts, and a lot of sweat in order to make it successful. But at the end, everyone is proud of the achievement they have just done. This interest and mobilization for a cause is according to me fading away from people (myself included), and events like that make you think about yourself.
At the same time, you have to understand the thousands of days athletes have invested for the possibility of one sole day of glory. After that, you understand all the emotions these people get through. and when you look at them... well, I can't think of anything else than highly-trained machines, which they are, to some point. But they're still human, they have dreams, and they worked toward it.
Having said that, I'm totally against doping
, but it's for medical reasons more than anything. I'm not against doping itself, or should I say, biologic enhancement. That's more a question over what is "natural" and "sacred" and what is not. And I don't want to get into philosophy or religion. We needed rules, we made rules, we have to enforce the rules, in order to level the playing field.
It will also help me understand better China (at least I do hope, we have a pretty good team of reporters at Radio-Canada, the French division of the national broadcasting company), because that country's culture seems really interesting.
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