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I have been thinking about the Olympics. I haven’t watched them that much, we were on vacation when they started and then I had to go back to work . . . you know – life. We elect not to have DVR or TiVo, so I’m dependent upon news clips and the occasional watching if I’m around. I heard coming in second, being awarded a Silver medal, described as being the first loser<\/a><\/i>. That’s really a shame. From time to time I’ve heard someone say, hey – “I did my best and the Gold medal winner was faster\/stronger\/better – so congrats all around”.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if this is primarily an American attitude or an Olympic athlete attitude. I have heard several British Silver medal winners who seem thrilled to have won.<\/p>\n

In an American society that has, for the last 20 years, largely awarded trophies just for showing up, I admire these Olympic athletes who have dealt with true competition their entire lives. I’m just sorry that they don’t see that winning<\/i> the Silver isn’t losing<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been thinking about the Olympics. I haven’t watched them that much, we were on vacation when they started and then I had to go back to work . . . you know – life. We elect not to have DVR or TiVo, so I’m dependent upon news clips and the occasional watching if …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-L8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}