2. Is the number of medals achieved at the Olympic Games and the position on the medal table important? As Heraclitus of Ephesus said about the oracle of Apollo at Delphi: the oracle does not hide or reveal, but rather indicates.
3. Does anyone understand any of that esoteric financial jargon that unfairly overshadowed Kipchoge’s great victory in the Marathon and that involves Messi, Barça and PSG? The language of modern football, like the language of the Dothraki people in “Game of Thrones”, is extremely difficult and does not contain the words “please” and “thank you.”
4. Is it worth it for an athlete like García Bragado, who is already in the Olympus of sport, to suffer in the brutal test of the 50-kilometer march knowing that he will not win another Olympic medal? As Kierkegaard said, there is no feeling so overwhelming that you cannot walk (or march) behind.
5. What is the merit of those athletes who limit themselves to running faster, jumping higher or pedaling harder than ordinary mortals? It does not occur to anyone to say that Socrates was sitting in prison waiting for the hemlock because of a certain arrangement of his bones, muscles and tendons. Olympic sport, like Socrates’ decisions, is more than just bones, muscles, and tendons.
6. Is the good that athletes do to the community is ephemeral and does it not make us better and, as Xenophanes said in Colophon, is it better to compose a song about how to drink at a banquet than to win an Olympic event? The philosopher and emperor Marcus Aurelius insisted that it was important to know that good wine is only grape juice and the pretext toga is nothing more than sheep’s wool dyed with shellfish blood, but the wine is very rich, the toga is very elegant And seeing the girls of the Spanish water polo team on the podium of the Olympic Games is forever and makes us better people.
7. Did a guy like Saúl Craviotto really need to break his soul for five years to win one more Olympic medal? As Patty says in a chapter of “Gilmore Girls”: need it, no; But wanting it, yeah
8. Isn’t it ridiculous to spend the best years of your life preparing to participate in the Olympic Games, giving up on having a decent job, an acceptable mortgage and an all-inclusive vacation as soon as possible? For Nietzsche, the secret of happiness was living dangerously: “Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!”
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