The charm of the Olympics

-Competitive sports are war in peacetime

Zhang Zhaohan   August 10, 2024

 

Olympic Charter:

Everyone should have the possibility to practice sport without any discrimination and embody the Olympic spirit of mutual understanding, friendship and fair play.

Mutual understanding, friendship, and unity are placed before and above competition. This is the soul of the Olympics.

Replacing wars between various ethnic groups, different countries, and different races with sports competition is a manifestation of the wisdom of human beings as an advanced species on the earth, and it is also the difference between human beings and other species.

 

 

Thinking of the 2022 Qatar World Cup ⚽ ️, it’s true: “Football is a war in peacetime.”

 

 

 The hallmark of human civilization is the choice to replace gunpowder and guns with sports competition. In shopping malls and battlefields, it will be looked down upon if you use deception, espionage or high-end weapons to defeat your opponents. But on the court, if you use fake moves to dribble past others or make reasonable collisions to send the ball into the opponent’s goal, you will be regarded as a star and sought after by people all over the world!

Sports competitions do not distinguish between race, color, wealth or poverty. Everyone stands on the same stage equally and competes according to unified competition rules.

 

Each team member comes to the stadium in Qatar with four years of hard work and sweat, with the expectation and dream of the championship. However, the hope of the championship is only 1/36, the losers are 35 teams, and there is only one team that wins the championship.

But as long as each player tries his best and uses all his skills to pass the opponent with clever fake moves under the camera, deceive the goalkeeper, and send the ball into the opponent’s goal, or like Morocco’s goalkeeper Bonu, use his shaking body to catch the ball, save the opponent’s penalty kick.

 

Winning a championship is like a perfect life, it must go through hardships and ups and downs. In addition to doing your best, you must also work as a team to fill each other’s positions. Lang Ping said: “The whole team is playing one ball. The team must have a spiritual leader who can unite everyone into a whole. Only by doing their best, working hard in one place, and thinking in one place can we win.” !