Sometimes friends decry the lack of heroes at a Games, but they are often there before us. Hiding in sweaty sight.
A weeping 37-year-old Novak Djokovic wins tennis gold at the Paris Olympics but wants to play on till Los Angeles 2028.
The drive of young athletes, who are only starting to express themselves, is only natural. But the athlete with a vault of trophies taking his beaten-up body repeatedly back to work is staggering. How much can you love a game? How much winning is enough? What is there left to prove? “Every single day when nobody’s watching I do it as hard as any young player out there in the world right now, I promise you that. I do it as hard, and maybe even harder than anybody else. And so these kind of successes are not coincidences. They come as a result of incredible effort from my side.”
“What a year, what a life, oh my God, wow”, said triple jump champion Thea LaFond, who then offered a small fact-file on her nation. “We’ll start with the basics. We’re not Dominican Republic. We’re about 70,000 people. It is a gorgeous gem in the Caribbean. Our neighbours also include Saint Lucia, Barbados, our primary language is English, and now we have an Olympic gold medal.
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