They're not contradictory comments, as the second is sarcastic.
My point is that the media, and perhaps the public at large, seems to crave heroes. How can it be that at every single freakin' Olympics there are heroes? Gina Jones, gymnast, fell the day before the event and hurt her ankle - but as a hero would do she soldiered on and competed anyway. Wow.
I want to see some Olympic heroes truly worthy of the title - I want to see someone still compete after losing both arms the day before. I want to see an athlete jump into the stands and kill with his bare hands a terrorist. Olympic heroes come along once every 100 years, not every second day.
Deciding to compete when you lost your lucky slippers doesn't make a hero in my book.
I'm also sick of the concept that countries are competing against one another for the gold. When Milaki Wamabwa from Nigeria beats Oshka Mungani from the Netherlands in a foot race, all it means is that Milaki beat Oshka - not that Nigeria is somehow a better place than the Netherlands. But a person who just turned on the TV for the first time in his life would swear it's time to move to Nigeria after watching a little Olympics.
The Olympics are just a bunch of rich people's kids trying to beat out other rich people's kids.
