Comments on: Who needs the armchair critics? http://www.opinionaustralia.com/wordpress/2008/08/18/who-needs-the-armchair-critics/ A view through the window... Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Welsh Dog http://www.opinionaustralia.com/wordpress/2008/08/18/who-needs-the-armchair-critics/comment-page-1/#comment-14987 Welsh Dog Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:23:30 +0000 http://www.opinionaustralia.com/wordpress/?p=1566#comment-14987 Eh what?? *<strong>I</strong>* missed the point... turnabout I think!?!? Athletes turn up to do the best they possibly can... which is what Tamsyn did. Every one of them wants to be the best and beat the rest... yet obviously not all of them can be winners. Each of them represents the cream of the athletics crop and if they've done their best then we can ask no more of them. If I'd been training for 20 years I'd never be able to run as fast as our track and field people. Surely, that an athlete has been prepared to put in year after year of hard slog, put their personal life and career on the back burner while they pursue that dream of Olympic glory is enough to make them a hero!?!?! Just to be good enough to *<strong>be</strong>* there representing their country isn't enough? Is everyone who went and failed to gain a medal a loser?? I think not!! What would *<strong>you</strong>* have them do?? Eh what?? *I* missed the point… turnabout I think!?!? Athletes turn up to do the best they possibly can… which is what Tamsyn did.

Every one of them wants to be the best and beat the rest… yet obviously not all of them can be winners. Each of them represents the cream of the athletics crop and if they’ve done their best then we can ask no more of them.

If I’d been training for 20 years I’d never be able to run as fast as our track and field people.

Surely, that an athlete has been prepared to put in year after year of hard slog, put their personal life and career on the back burner while they pursue that dream of Olympic glory is enough to make them a hero!?!?!

Just to be good enough to *be* there representing their country isn’t enough? Is everyone who went and failed to gain a medal a loser?? I think not!!

What would *you* have them do??

]]> By: Graham http://www.opinionaustralia.com/wordpress/2008/08/18/who-needs-the-armchair-critics/comment-page-1/#comment-14984 Graham Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:03:23 +0000 http://www.opinionaustralia.com/wordpress/?p=1566#comment-14984 I think you've completely missed the point of the Olympics and competition. Re Tamsyn Lewis "just for her to have fought through to the semi-final was an achievement!"?!? Huh? You're applauding her, someone who's been running for Australia for 14 years, for struggling through rounds? I think you’ve completely missed the point of the Olympics and competition. Re Tamsyn Lewis “just for her to have fought through to the semi-final was an achievement!”?!? Huh? You’re applauding her, someone who’s been running for Australia for 14 years, for struggling through rounds?

]]> By: Matt http://www.opinionaustralia.com/wordpress/2008/08/18/who-needs-the-armchair-critics/comment-page-1/#comment-14739 Matt Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:24:33 +0000 http://www.opinionaustralia.com/wordpress/?p=1566#comment-14739 A truly British attitude..!!!! A truly British attitude..!!!!

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