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Essay Galaxy - The Olympic Athlete
The Olympic Athlete
I always have respected Olympic athletes, for they spend all their time
training. Victorious athletes were professionals in the sense that they lived
off the glory of their achievement ever afterwards. Their hometowns might reward
them with: free meals for the rest of their lives, honorary appointments, or
leadership positions in the community. The victors were memorialized in statues
and also in victory songs, and commissioned from famous poets.
Today, the Olympic Games are the world's largest pageant of athletic
skill and competitive spirit. They are also displays of nationalism, commerce
and politics. These two opposing elements of the Olympics are not a modern
invention. The conflict between the Olympic movement's high ideals and the
commercialism or political acts, which accompany the Games, has been noted since
ancient times. The ....
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