As a pretty good mediocre athlete myself... slightly better than an armchair athlete and YET not in the NHL... I commiserate a little with our Canadian athletes at the Olympics... Where they get a personal best... yay... be all happy and content... hurra... and YET come in 7th in qualifiers... 45th overall...
... success or failure?...
... 45th best in the world... is really not bad... not bad at all out of billions of people... sort of billions... I guess... maybe thousands or tens of thousands for people who actually do your skill... but 45 out of thousands is still really good...
... So good job personal best... kudos and all that... maybe one day... maybe if we start treating our olympic athletes as professionals like the US or China and we might see that personal best turning into a medal...
... If we stop making them work a job and train at the same time... where fatigue from the job cramps any sort of training they might have... NBC did a story on Phelps... his biggest worry after swimming is if his dog snores to much and keeps him up... getting enough to eat... and that's it...
... equals gold... 12 to be exact...
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