About Winning And Loosing At The Olympics

Great article in the Ottawa Citizen:

They do it because they love it. It’s not a sacrifice, but a calling, and those who love them indulge it. Classic values are the underpinnings: Hard bloody work, unsung, for years, usually done in ignominy; the satisfaction of giving your all, of sore muscles and weary heads and lonely laps in the pool and long runs at dawn.