WEEKEND BONUS: EUROSTUPIDITY

Financial Times columnist Matthew Engel ruminates on American elitism at the Olympics and the thrill other nations get from knocking American athletes off the pedestal. A fair point – after all, who outside of Boston wasn't praying to see the Patriots defeated last year, the smug smile wiped off Tom Brady's dimpled face?
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What baseball fan doesn't secretly openly enjoy watching the Yankees' $220 million train wreck?

Then Engel criticizes the way that we just don't get team sports and international competition, contrasting our must-win attitude with the casual, it's-all-for-fun-and-the-joy-of-competing attitude of our European cousins:

My own theory is that the US has never quite grasped the give-and-take character of world sport. Countries devoted to soccer, cricket and rugby play regular international fixtures; they win some and lose some, and learn to live with that…
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Neither (American) athletes nor spectators are well-prepared for the Olympics.

Right. I will keep that in mind the next time I am watching the World Cup, which is played for fun and in which the fans are not particularly concerned about winning.
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5 thoughts on “WEEKEND BONUS: EUROSTUPIDITY”

  • I suppose if you have no hope of winning in most (if not all) events, it's best to focus on how the Olympics aren't about competition, and how you're not really *trying* to win, because that's missing the whole point of the Games. I remember my little league coach trying a similar strategy to boost my team's morale when we were getting our asses handed to us. It didn't work then, either.

  • hate to defend the olympics, but…

    j. – of course you're *trying* to win in a competition, it's just not *everything*. your coach was right. in my experience, the kids who win all the time are invariably jerks.

    ed – I think it's not the athletes we wanna see beaten, its the flag.

    it's a little like watching someone who is standing on your throat get stung by a bee. not exactly satisfying, but its as good as its gonna get, so we like to try enjoy it. sue us.

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