Has everyone lost the spirit of the games?

Question

i mean, here we are complaining about the chinese judges and how we aren't dominating the olympics, and then there is china who takes kids from their parents just to train them everyday for the Olympics and then throws them out on the street once their athletic use is over....i think the Olympic spirit is lost among most countries....i read an article about this Afghanistan athlete who won his countries first medal ever(it was bronze) so the whole country stopped their fighting amongst their government and all came together for that day to watch him compete and celebrate after he won, he is now a national hero and they are gonna celebrate a holiday for him...isn't that the type of spirit that the olympics are really about?

Answer 1

vanity, the human nature to be superior than everybody else, those athletes from really small countries, seem to embrace the olympic spirit than anybody else, if their country is first world superpower they'd be doing the same thing and try their best to "win"

Answer 2

Singing You've lost that loving feeling oh oh that loving feeling.

Answer 3

I think a lot of people have, being blinded by the controversy of bias gymnastic judges and the Chinese gymnasts. But, yeah I think the spirit is lost, I mean this comes around once every four years. I personally like the Summer Olympics more than the Winter Olympics and I do not want this year to be wasted.

Answer 4

What a load of drivel, get the facts right before posting,China does not throw their kids on the street after athletic days are over.Edit..... now you're adding to you're question,I answered to what you had written, once again get your facts right.

Answer 5

yeah it's like christmas. everything loses it's meaning after awhile. that's why there's so many divorces. things get old and stale at some point, but they just keep happening out of tradition.

Answer 6

I concur. One fellow on here is talking about how, "stupid the Americans are" for thinking we are, "actually leading" in the medal tally. "China has the most Gold", he says, and evidently that's all that matters. The fact that someone is even one of the top three means diddly nowadays.

It's like in poll vaulting: Our American girl gets second, beaten only by the ranging world record holder, and all her coach could do was slam her and slander her for not being first. And she's only been doing this for four years, I'd say second place, or even making it to the Olympics was pretty good, eh? But it's not gold so it means crud. What the heck, eh? That's wrong...

A while back my parents told me how America actually doesn't treat their Olympians like heros or gladiators, and I think that's kind of wrong, honestly. They are the closest things we have to real life superheros or gladiators, but because we can't *afford* to give them some credit, once the Olympics are over they're back to being just regular people. My Aunt was an Olympian, and she had to live with my grandmother for all her life because she couldn't make it out on her own... And I think that's pretty sad really...

Much luck in life to you.

Answer 7

The asker is spreading malicious lies.  Only depraved human like you are SORE and BITTER about China leading dominantly in gold medals, and so when you have nothing good to say, don't say it.

Answer 8

The games are big business now.  They need to take them down a notch.  Rogge is not good for the games