>> It's good to see someone passionate about their sport :)
I have the impression that the pressure to perform at the Olympic level absorbs years of people's lives and costs them untold physical effort and suffering. That's a bit more than being passionate.
'Four years of my life!' the poor geezer yelled among other things. We would all have wanted him to get a restart, but apparently the rules said no. Perhaps we forget that there are always medal hopefuls among the also-rans at the Olympics and Paralympics, that bitter disappointment is present as well as heady triumph.
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