Sky TV said that football betting determines economic problems. Doping is an issue that can remove the sponsor from certain sports and individual athletes. Having athletes who call themselves too stressed by their sport it is not a good advertisement for those who want to sell the image of an athlete as health or equilibrated individual. Paradoxically it could be the companies that put their money to ask the athletes to be more balanced and healthy, while those to whom this should be of interest to more as the sports federations, the state bodies and sport organizations are instead absent. The business of companies that invest in athletes could save them from undertaking bad roads, since nobody wants to invest his money on someone that is not what it seems.
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Petrucci, president of the Italian Olympic Committee, said he hopes that Schwarzer will become ambassador in the fight against doping. Personally I would add, maybe in 10 years after he passed this time doing volunteer work in a field of leprosy.
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.
There are shortcuts and frauders and the world is not as we wish. But let us not give up the excellence that comes from intelligent commitment.
Talking about the last doping case of Schwazer Reinhold Messner was right: abolish the competition and there will be no more obsession to achieve the results at any cost. Before we take this road, choice already made in many long-distance races of cycling just for the same reason, I would like that something be done to spread a positive culture of competition in sport, whereas no organization of the sport does nothing to make it clear that no should win the smartest guys. We have to start by educating the managers, coaches, families and sponsors, without which nothing is possible. We have not to leave the athletes alone with their thoughts, that fear turns into nightmares leading them to fall in the hands of the doping professionals. We can still do something? What do you think we are now crushed in a pincer between the frauds of the football (like in Italy) and the competitive sport destroyed by doping? What do you think?
Schwarz is the normalcy that becomes madness. Damilano was schooled, with a girlfriend champion and a native of an area of Italy where the sport is a positive value. He had all to continue to be the best, not only for results but for the sport culture expressed by his work. Instead the unthinkable it has happened. Unthinkable only for one who thinks that we are always the same and that we cannot change our mind. Instead it happened, the boy despite the successes had a unstable personality, and he did not believe to succeed. So the easiest option is to use drugs and medical fraudsters. What it is the lesson of this story: never leave these athletes themselves, not just a coach or a manager must make use of expert psychologists who understand their minds and what they would be willing to do to win. Two years ago I did a lecture to the athletes of thea rmy to which it belonged, of course, the general said that my worki t was not necessary. Congratulations.
One thing that goes bad can it get worse. It is the case of Italian track and field after the exclusion of Schwazer found positive at EPO. Theguy did not understand yet that he has not only ruined his career but his whole life.
The trap competition, shooting, it was really cruel. The Croatian Cernogoraz won the gold medal but it was entered last in the final with 122 out of 125 target. Giovanni Pellielo, however, with one plate less, 121 out of 125, has been out of the final, finishing in seventh place. Michael Diamond had taken all the 125 plates equaling the world record, in the final five plates was missed and he was ranked only fourth. Fabbrizi and Cernogoraz have concluded with the same score the final, so they made a shotoff that lasted 6 plates, the sixth the Italian missed the target and finished in second place. In this sport the difference between the joy of victory and the sadness of defeat has really done nothing. The revenge for those who will be in four years.
Imagine winning helps you win. This is not rhetoric, it is what the great champions say. Usain Bolt said: “In my head I never had any doubt that it would end like this.” The same did Jessica Rossi, shooting, again the day before the race she trained imaging to win and to do the world record. It has been repeatedly demonstrated by studies in psychology of performance that optimism is a cause of success. Being optimistic means to be convinced that with the right focus and determination to win, it is there waiting for you. Mood that usually have not access those athletes who do not climb on the podium, because before and during the race they have not this feeling with their performance. This mood is certainly not the result of the hazard but it is possible to train it and who win the Olympics means that he/she has trained this skill more than others.
Napoleon said: “I win my battles with the dreams of my soldiers”. Champions from Phelps to Bolt to Serena Williams to Wiggins teach us that we must dream and work hard, so heads up and do.
(Au dessus des vents, by René e Radka)
