Is top sport asking too much?

Perhaps we ask too much to our guys in sport. Excellence and talent are two words much used by all, and I think we do not yet understand that beyond expressing positivity, they may also represent a burden, something that creates unrealistic expectations in ourselves and in others. It’s hard to learn how to handle this kind of stress, often the people who surround the athletes do not understand this difficulty, but they think to the  athletes as individuals to push more and more toward a perfection that does not exist. These athletes are likely to become like Icarus who wanted to reach the sun and that is why he died. So certainly we condemn those who resort to doping or any form of cheating.  We have also to remove this burden from their shoulders, so that their talents and their achievements are not at the same time their grave.