Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:04 pm
SaintsFan wrote:
However, the British atheletics federation or whatever they are called made similar comments after the under-performance of Brits at Bejing and already we have more Brits through their initial heats than we did at Bejing, if memory serves. That doesn't mean we will win any more medals than we did at Bejing, but it means there has been an improvement as a result of analysing the failure at Bejing.
The Olympics is a competition when all is said and done. Nobody wins anything in a competition without a good dose of analysis. In fact, nobody achieves anything without a good dose of analysis.
The Olympics is a competition when all is said and done. Nobody wins anything in a competition without a good dose of analysis. In fact, nobody achieves anything without a good dose of analysis.
That is true but the final, and vital ingredient is the human mind and all its frailties - there are too many examples to mention where athletes who should have been more successful, and who were in peak condition right up to the second that the event starts, suddenly don't perform as well as they have done in training or even in their heats, its unpredictable and sport is all the better for it - the moral of the story is leave the analysis to the coaches and just enjoy the spectacle.
Relating it back to RL, spectators are far less knob-ish if they don't read the Opta stats, partly because they often don't understand the significance of certain ones, partly because they were never intended for public consumption anyway, but mainly because many RL games are often won by a totally unpredictable error or fluke.
