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Old 08-08-2021, 08:17 AM   #1
EldrickOnIce
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Default A shift from nationalism to individualism?

Definitely not a thing in Canada. Yet anyway.
Listening to the post race interview with Kelsey Mitchell is as Canadian and as Olympic as it gets.
Here in America, not necessarily the same

Tokyo Olympics and Suni Lee's gold medal tweet ask us: Do Olympians owe their country?

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The American Twittersphere that demands the U.S. remain atop the gymnastics world indefinitely, as if it were a divine right, exudes the kind of exceptionalism the rest of the world despises in us. It’s not fair to athletes like Lee, it’s not realistic, and it’s not a good look. But neither is dismissing the responsibility that perceptive athletes feel toward the community on whose behalf they compete. A shift from nationalism toward individualism might win us medals, but it will lose us something equally valuable: selflessness.
Good read

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...us-ncna1275849
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