Blaming Game
The American sports clothing and accessories company was blamed this week for the poor performance of top U.S. speed skaters at the Sochi Olympic Games. Here is the company’s response.
The company sponsored the team and provided the suits, which were reported to have never before been tested in a competitive situation. This by itself is an incredible circumstance.
Why did the U.S. team not bring along the old suits just in case as was reported this had been done before in a similar situation.
Do Suits Make All The Difference?
Does this indeed mean that among the the top dozen or more athletes in this sport worldwide only the one wins who has some kind of external benefit like a suit? Or the one who is doped better than the rest?
Top Athletes Are Actually Only Average
By implication based on the above discussion this would mean that the top athletes are the best in their sport but they are only average.
Superathletes
If top athletes are only average, then this makes it even more relevant to look for truly outstanding superathletes like Mark Spitz or Michael Jordan or Lance Armstrong and so many others.
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