All England badminton, ladies doubles, final score line is 14-21, 14-21. Japanese girls literally walked over Indian pair of Ponnapa and Sikki, without breaking a sweat. Same with our girls! They are taking it equally cool too. Despite losing badly they are showing all the attitude, the high fives, clinching of fist, that nonchalant walk even after losing the point. Seems like they are well practiced in the ritual, of losing. They, rather than getting perturbed by their inadequacy in the game, are making maximum of their air time to come out as cool girls with attitude. Sometimes difficult to tell whether they are playing this sport professionally with a desire to win, or just for physical fitness.
Though a power to reckon with in singles, we have never been anything in doubles. Going down to better opponents is not something that I can hold against them, but sheer mental surrender and acknowledgment of defeat in advance is unacceptable. Sport persons are true bearer of warrior spirit (sans literal violence), and desire to win is equivalent to the desire of being the last man standing in a real dual. It is that kind of intensity for winning, as if one's life depends on it, that makes a sport worthwhile and sport person a real hero and deserving of all the adulation. Not to put a fight and walk on to the court without a desire to win makes them pretenders, not warriors.
No pretender would have walked in to a real dual for the fear of death. True warriors always walked in to it believing, and giving their best for, victory. It is for this reason, for this grit to fight till last breath, the glory was theirs. And, so, the glory of vanquished too was no less than that of victorious, for his grit to fight till last breath is no less than that of victorious; in fact a little more validated for he actually fell in the battle. But, in sports because a duel doesn't result in death or injury on losing, pretenders have found their place.
It is strange to see a so called sport person to have a fan following based on her fashion sense ( or looks!) rather than sporting achievements and exploits on the court. Well, in the age of mass media sport also needs glamour, and perhaps there are players who see a carrier for themselves in fulfilling this need than actually adding something more to the art of sports. They are fine with being a commercial break in something more serious, a sheep among lions.
These pretenders have reduced the sports to a glamourised display of limited skills; something between movie and sport, more movie less sport. A kistsch of sport closer to cheaper form of performing art, rather than a dual of two warrior spirits using the medium and skills of a sport to give a new hight to human grit for fighting for glory. Money alone (may be fame, in whatever hue it comes) is worthwhile for them, no glory required.
This phenomenon is, based on the nature of society and male dominance, currently prevalent in ladies sports; and specially in those which are less developed and not much talent goes in to them pushing the mediocrity out.
-Pulastya
Though a power to reckon with in singles, we have never been anything in doubles. Going down to better opponents is not something that I can hold against them, but sheer mental surrender and acknowledgment of defeat in advance is unacceptable. Sport persons are true bearer of warrior spirit (sans literal violence), and desire to win is equivalent to the desire of being the last man standing in a real dual. It is that kind of intensity for winning, as if one's life depends on it, that makes a sport worthwhile and sport person a real hero and deserving of all the adulation. Not to put a fight and walk on to the court without a desire to win makes them pretenders, not warriors.
No pretender would have walked in to a real dual for the fear of death. True warriors always walked in to it believing, and giving their best for, victory. It is for this reason, for this grit to fight till last breath, the glory was theirs. And, so, the glory of vanquished too was no less than that of victorious, for his grit to fight till last breath is no less than that of victorious; in fact a little more validated for he actually fell in the battle. But, in sports because a duel doesn't result in death or injury on losing, pretenders have found their place.
It is strange to see a so called sport person to have a fan following based on her fashion sense ( or looks!) rather than sporting achievements and exploits on the court. Well, in the age of mass media sport also needs glamour, and perhaps there are players who see a carrier for themselves in fulfilling this need than actually adding something more to the art of sports. They are fine with being a commercial break in something more serious, a sheep among lions.
These pretenders have reduced the sports to a glamourised display of limited skills; something between movie and sport, more movie less sport. A kistsch of sport closer to cheaper form of performing art, rather than a dual of two warrior spirits using the medium and skills of a sport to give a new hight to human grit for fighting for glory. Money alone (may be fame, in whatever hue it comes) is worthwhile for them, no glory required.
This phenomenon is, based on the nature of society and male dominance, currently prevalent in ladies sports; and specially in those which are less developed and not much talent goes in to them pushing the mediocrity out.
-Pulastya
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