What does "the Olympic spirit" mean to you, and how do you apply it in your day-to-day life?
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Mel A
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It's true that all the glam and glitz seems to bombard us every couple of years when Olympic games roll around. (Vancouver is just two years away!) But I don't think the "Olympic spirit" is something experienced by just the elite athletes. I think that spirit and the glory of it can be experienced by any one of us even if we don't get to stand on a box and have the national anthem played on our behalf.
If we have the discipline to occasionally step outside our comfort zone, face fears and endure discomfort to march on and actually finish what we said we would finish; when we hold ourselves accountable to a promise made while sitting in more comfortable surroundings -- despite how "hard" we later find keeping that promise really is -- then, I think, we come to understand that spirit.
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I did some research on Baron de Joubert (???) who helped reestablish the modern Olympics in around 1894. By 1920, it had a motto -- higher, faster, stronger or something similar -- and a creed, to do as well as one possibly could.
The heck with the politics. I don't have to be an elite athlete to try to better my previous best and play whatever "games" I'm in as well as I can.
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Five rings interlocked, alike and yet unique: the whole of humanity, and what it means to be human. I still can't see the whole of the universe in a single grain of sand, but I do see the whole of positive human experience in the Olympic Games. To barrow from Chinese philosophy, there is a Yin/Yang to human life, and that is the balance of Cooperation and Competition: which I believe is supremely exemplified by the Olympic Games. Better the world comes together in athletic competition than war.
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I only use my Visa card now. The MasterCard is not even allowed in the house.
Also, the brand names of all my household appliances are now taped over.
Laura S
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It has inspired me! These athletes go for it 24/7 for 4 plus years to get a chance to compete. There is no middle ground, they just go for it. We can all do that a bit more in life I think. I know I can!
For me it makes me want to work harder to expand my business so that my family has all the chances for success in life that they can. Also since I am working to help the next generation learn the life lessons through chess I feel that the more successful I am the more our society will be improved. After all if our children have excellent problem solving skills, look where we could be!
Bottom line I think we can all make a huge difference in life. It is a decision we make. I realize many people can get caught up in the losses they have endured, but if we look at the amazing stories these athletes have, maybe we can pick ourselves up one more time and just go for it!
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I administer doping tests and verify my sex each week.
I also award myself Gold Medals for various tasks and then challenge the results.
Is this a serious question? (no offense but is there an "Olympic Spirit"? It's sports. It's an over commercialized event made up mainly of professional athletes competing in sports that people only care about every 4 years..... Badminton for example.... when is the last time anyone cared about badminton? Or the 10 meter air pistol competition?)
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I employ the "slo-mo" replay as often as necessary...
I dont care what they say those girls are not 16... That about sums it up for me. I think the Olympics have unfortunately become more of a politcal cold shoulder than an event of world unity. Thats just been my impression... that and I will never buy tickets to an equestrian event as long as I live.
I try to be a postive person for the most part so on that note Michael Phelps is awesome. I am working on my double-jointedness and trying to increase my "wingspan".
M. (Monica) B
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It shouldn't only be the Olympic spirit. I try to have my mind right at all times, Olympics or not.
Good luck to you, Megann. :-) And to everybody who reads this, of course!
James H
Owner of Friends of Ireland group
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Drugs...The first words I heard when I turned the T,V on to watch them ...
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