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Good thing judo is so much more than winning. Good thing judo is so much more than standing on the medal stand. Good thing your instructor is prepared to teach you ALL of judo, not just jacket wrestling for kids and thugs. Good thing judo is much more than another hypocritical, over-commercialized Olympic marketing mind-f**k carried on the backs of hard-working athletes who sacrifice their youth and often their health for our momentary amusement.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/opinions/view/thorpes-plight-shows-how-sports-highs-can-lead-to-lows
From the article:
“There would be many of hundreds, if not thousands of athletes that don’t have the notoriety who are at any one time contending with the same things.”
Andrew Hughes, an expert in sports marketing and branding at the Australian National University, said dealing with the transition was a problem across all sports.
“When they stop, there’s no training regime, no fame, adulation, no adrenaline. It all disappears,” he said.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/opinions/view/thorpes-plight-shows-how-sports-highs-can-lead-to-lows
From the article:
“There would be many of hundreds, if not thousands of athletes that don’t have the notoriety who are at any one time contending with the same things.”
Andrew Hughes, an expert in sports marketing and branding at the Australian National University, said dealing with the transition was a problem across all sports.
“When they stop, there’s no training regime, no fame, adulation, no adrenaline. It all disappears,” he said.
