It was two talented swimmers, one spot and much debatable fine print about selection criteria.
For 283 minutes across five sets, Lendl battled Boris Becker in the year-end Masters final. At match point, on the 37th stroke, the German’s backhand clipped the net cord and fell over for a winner.There are multiple reasons I respect athletes and one is their relentless negotiating of this strange, capricious world. A goal might be scored when the ball ricochets off a body. Another land might have a bigger sporting budget.
And so athletes must build again and Gan bravely has. She is faster than she ever was, a swimmer chasing dreams not drama, but became the “other” person in a controversy she neither started nor fuelled. It must feel unfair but But this is the lovely test of a team, isn’t it? This is the time all those words – harmony, sacrifice, unity – so routinely uttered by athletes, must find meaning. Athletes may be uncomfortable but they swim in a relay at a Games for more than themselves: For each other and a nation.
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