Why the sport and the Olympics make me disgusted

Olympic Games - it's great. Someone earning in the construction of sports facilities, and someone starts for no apparent reason to be proud of their country. And so much senseless and proud that there are articles like this.

Here I turn on the broadcast of the Olympic Games and see how the four burly men sit in a sled (which for some reason called "bean") and roll down at a tremendous speed. And I can not understand why some tractor and seamstress should be proud of the fact that "our" win by 0.01 seconds. It is impossible to realize. What does the proud? Pindos overtaken?

There can be proud of some German company, producing more and more sophisticated version of the beans. Can be proud of a foreign worker to do in Sochi track. Even the Tajik migrant workers reason to be proud of more than us. Be proud of us, I do not understand. Maybe we are proud audacity and swiftness four guys? But they are often trained for their money somewhere in Salzburg and Montreal. And there is no pride.

At what point do we became partake of that slender guy rips someone on the ice, running 5 kilometers in the latex with an incredible and little compatible with the speed of life? You sponsor his training? Do not be deceived: food, fees, trainers, doctors, massage therapists, travel expenses, uniforms - is extremely expensive. No they do not provide. And we are proud of. We are proud that we have nothing to do with these people and forget their names the next day.

Sit fans are temporarily depicting Russian patriots, or of another country, and shake their liquid reserves and gas in the stomach. Drink tons of beer, yelling and proud, without doing anything else. If this is you, you have to change something.

Engage yourself in sports!

Run to the city competitions of 10 kilometers at least in the first one hundred and proud. Shout at the finish, "Russia! Russia!". Dress up even in a clown suit Bosco and getting on your favorite runners finish frame. All that matters is that in the picture, you and your accomplishments, rather than some guy.

And yet you can stop spending money on beer, expensive whiskey, wine and strange sausages and buy a road bike - only 800-900 dollars. Then any running shoes and wetsuit. It's all going to cost you as 5-6 liters of good single malt whiskey from Scotland. Prepare and take part in the Moscow triathlon. Simply complete at least the Olympic distance and proud. Struggling tear the throat in squares and fend fingers on the forums. "Russia, thank you for the opportunity to be a beer keg." Be proud of yourself, not someone else.

Be proud of the kids!

All around the pee boiling water over the nymph-skater accepting a medal. And I'm not interested. I am proud of my son. The fact that it quickly swims. Those that ran at will in five years, nearly 3 km on the Kiev half marathon next to me. So quickly that thinking about his paltry deplorable many of my peers. And he received a yellow belt in taekwondo. Just wanted and got, I did not ask him. Even the yellow belt of his son 100 times more valuable than a girl of 15 years with a medal. For me.

I am proud of the Kharkiv football team of IT specialists of the company of my friend, who tore other companies. I am proud of the children's football team "Antelope" in my area Rusanivka.

So why do we cheer for someone who is on the boards with sticks proprygal some time there? Or what do I care about the team football team of my country? Generally uninteresting. I find it interesting time - 10 hours, and how much a minute - Mikhail Ivanov, publisher at Ironman, because it's cool and I want it! I'm wondering what I ran in Kiev, 10 kilometers in 37 minutes. I will be interesting when I'll do it for 30 minutes... and how zagorzhus!

And team sports and Olympic athletes, acting on behalf of my country, I do not care. Let them take pride in their families, coaches, owners and other people involved! They have earned the right to be proud of, but I'm not. Not earned, and "beer barrel".

I just sincerely'll be rooting for Team Paralympians around the world who can do everything, and in spite of absurdity, we accepted as the norm.

I end this article with respect to the position of sport and patriotism, formulated by the great George Orwell. Looking at visiting tour of the Moscow "Dynamo" in post-war Britain in 1945, he wrote an essay evil "sports spirit":

If you went out to play football on the lawn in the backyard, teams are formed randomly and you can easily warm up for his own pleasure, not powders brains themselves and others by patriotic sentiments. But when it comes to prestige, as it turns out that you do sports for the sake of someone's honor there and in the case of your loss will fall on her stigma, you just wake up in the deep primal instincts. Anyone who has ever play for the school football team, familiar with this feeling. International competitions - a quasi-war. But the main thing - not the behavior of the athletes, and the reaction of the public and those who are behind it. Whole nations are beginning to come out of the gall of these absurd merrymaking. But many believe seriously (especially those who are in the stadium), that the ability to run, jump and kick the ball there is a measure of the merits of the entire nation.

George Orwell "Sporting Spirit"