| Barney Ronay on sport and remembrance is worth a few minutes today on 10:01 - Nov 10 with 637 views | factual_blue |
However, as the People's Procession is going on, Liverpool will respectfully be playing Fulham to further enrich murdoch. |  |
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| Barney Ronay on sport and remembrance is worth a few minutes today on 10:17 - Nov 10 with 621 views | Swansea_Blue |
A very good piece and helps me put my feelings about it in context. He’s spot on when he talks about the message of regret being lost and replaced by service and heroism, “and about celebration, remembrance transformed into a shared public display“.
For this reason I’ve been one of those who’ve complained “about the militarising of sport”.
But then I never knew this following quirky fact and, together with a reminder of what sport lost, I think I’ve shifted my position a bit: “Pointlessly so as organised sport has been this way right back to the first Olympic events, including the hoplitodromos, an 800 metres race in full military armour”.
So yes, maybe remembrance does have more of a place in sport than I’ve previously accepted. But let’s keep it real and true to the original meaning (which includes respecting the rights of those who chose not to take part to do so - Vidic, Mclean). |  |
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| Barney Ronay on sport and remembrance is worth a few minutes today on 11:34 - Nov 10 with 581 views | factual_blue |
| Barney Ronay on sport and remembrance is worth a few minutes today on 10:17 - Nov 10 by Swansea_Blue |
A very good piece and helps me put my feelings about it in context. He’s spot on when he talks about the message of regret being lost and replaced by service and heroism, “and about celebration, remembrance transformed into a shared public display“.
For this reason I’ve been one of those who’ve complained “about the militarising of sport”.
But then I never knew this following quirky fact and, together with a reminder of what sport lost, I think I’ve shifted my position a bit: “Pointlessly so as organised sport has been this way right back to the first Olympic events, including the hoplitodromos, an 800 metres race in full military armour”.
So yes, maybe remembrance does have more of a place in sport than I’ve previously accepted. But let’s keep it real and true to the original meaning (which includes respecting the rights of those who chose not to take part to do so - Vidic, Mclean). |
DId you know that the nazis stole the Olympic Salute? | |
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