顺着CBC的原文,找到了今天的嘉宾John Leicester在报纸上的文章。
转贴这些文章的目的,不是说老外的话就是真理,而是想让朋友们再思考一下:为什么这些跟中国运动员并没有利益关系的国外体育专家和记者们,并未轻易地把“无耻”、“没有做人底线”等帽子扣到这些羽毛球运动员头上?
http://metronews.ca/olympics/320950/column-ideals-reality-clash-at-olympic-badminton/
LONDON – In sports, as in life, there are those who bend rules, and those who cheat. They’ve always existed. And because of human frailties and pressure from sponsors, countries, coaches and athletes themselves for medals and trophies, they always will. But bending rules and spitting on them are not the same thing.
Olympic ideals of fair play, sportsmanship and all of that are just that — an ideal. But the reality of the Olympic Games is that success is measured in gold, silver and bronze.
Be good sportsmen if you can but, above all, win and we will give you a shiny bauble. And because these are Olympic medals, they will bring fame and perhaps fortune, too. Winning medals changes lives. Being good sports alone rarely does. Sad, perhaps, but true.
Between the Olympic ideal and the Olympic reality is a trap that eight badminton players fell into at London 2012.
They didn’t cheat.
Instead, they tried to win — by deliberately trying to lose.
They bent the rules to breaking point. But they didn’t trample on them like doped sprinter Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics or Fred Lorz in 1904, the New Yorker who hitched a ride by car for much of the Olympic marathon and then ran over the finish line in first place. It’s not like a boxer taking a dive or a soccer player scoring in his own goal to get a fat envelope from a gambling syndicate.
Those are cheats, damned cheats.
The women badminton players from China, South Korea and Indonesia are not.
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