26 February 2010

The Olympic BLOG

I thought it only fit to write a blog on the Olympics which is a pleasant distraction taking our attentions away from the doldrums of our present day to day life and offering us the opportunity to witness what years of hard work for the worlds top athletes produce in the 7 minutes of pure performance. Watching these games I can’t help but think that in many ways we are like Olympic hopefuls with our podiums being a happy family life, a successful business or a great career, I mean the training is more or less the same we focus and train hard to be the best in our respective fields while dealing with the ins and outs of everyday challenges only to face variables like the speed skater Sven Kramer from the Netherlands who was disqualified from winning gold at the Winter Olympics cause of bad advise from his coach. His response “that was an expensive mistake” or the American skier Julia Mancuso whose two split times on her aborted run indicated she would have been near the lead had she finished, felt robbed. She thought race officials should have prevented her from starting or stopped her earlier.

This is just life and the harder we try the more we feel cheated when life happens to us but the great thing about the Olympics is there is always 2014 and you bet that with the right attitude and out look on life these athletes will be back to finish what they started. I was inspired by the Blog of Heather Moyse our bobsled gold medal co winner along with Kallie Humphries, when she said of the Nagano Olympics “I have unfinished business” and wolla 4 years later gold. The beauty of everyday Olympics is that we don’t have to wait four years to win a medal, we can get better tomorrow or the week after the choice is ours. If an Olympic athlete can train for 4 years between greatness in there lives I think we can manage to improve day by day after all winning gold is there for all of us it just depends on what you are training for.

So to all my fellow Olympians go for gold in what ever your personal pursuit of excellence may be.

Dream Big!

Nexonta