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Sport is about not winning

by Carl Brewer last modified 2010-01-11 18:30
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An interesting and clever article ...

From here.

Some extracts :

Defeat is the sporting experience that dare not speak its name. Defeat is the thing that keeps us coming back: for when victory is certain, where is the joy? A mismatch brings no pleasure to the winner, and we call such victories hollow.

And it finishes with :

We are as hooked on defeat as we are on victory. Sport would not be sport without misery, without despair, without hopelessness. Victory is for wimps: it is in defeat that the true spirit of sport is to be found.


Read the whole article, it's more about soccer than anything else, but it's a good article, from a spectators perspective.


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