As long as businesses are involved in sports, doping will be excepted and promoted. Just like the presidential election, who ever wins will fold to the foreign policy that's been in place for decades or they will get run over.
As long as businesses are involved in sports, doping will be excepted and promoted. Just like the presidential election, who ever wins will fold to the foreign policy that's been in place for decades or they will get run over.
HRE wrote:
One of the main justifications for having sports, going back to Ancient Greece, has been that it makes people better; fitter, healthier, happier, develop character, etc.
No. Sports at the most competitive level are not supposed to make people healthier. That was not the case in ancient Greece, and not the case today. If you want to be healthier and happier, all you need is moderate exercise. Running 30mpw is better for your health than running 120mpw.
And it does not "develop" character. That's a myth. It reveals character. Knowing one's true character through participating in sports might be useful in personal development. But being competitive in sports at the highest level does not mean one has more "developed" character.
A Typical LRC A-hole wrote:
HRE wrote:One of the main justifications for having sports, going back to Ancient Greece, has been that it makes people better; fitter, healthier, happier, develop character, etc.
No. Sports at the most competitive level are not supposed to make people healthier. That was not the case in ancient Greece, and not the case today. If you want to be healthier and happier, all you need is moderate exercise. Running 30mpw is better for your health than running 120mpw.
And it does not "develop" character. That's a myth. It reveals character. Knowing one's true character through participating in sports might be useful in personal development. But being competitive in sports at the highest level does not mean one has more "developed" character.
Truth. But ultra-competitive A-type people won't admit this.
I disagree. Sports by definition are recreational pursuits and when you look at reasons high school federations, the NCAA, etc. give for funding and fielding teams they always cite things like "developing the complete person." And no, being in sports at the highest level does not mean one has a more developed character anymore than being a clergyman means one has better morals than a layperson. But there are people in the sport that I've respected over the years who talk about the impact a sport has on developing a person as a whole and not just as an athlete.
But the pursuit of money, which usually comes from being very successful competitively in sports, corrupts most things and it certainly has done that with high level track. I don't like that. I don't like those who are at the forefront of making it happen.
I'm not sure what your argument is. I'm not suggesting that anyone should dislike NOP. But the thread asks the reasons why people dislike them and I gave my answers. Really, what's your point? Are you trying to get me to see that I'm "wrong?" It's impossible to prove that someone is wrong for liking or disliking a thing. I hate the DH in baseball. Many others do too.Others like it and we all have reasons for our preferences. Neither of us is right or wrong.
Well Rupp going solo in HS and college and never being a team player wasn't the best thing to do on the like ability scale. Too good to run XC, the gimmicks, the stupid awkward celebrations all has something to do with it.
But this pretty much sums it up: