On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:47:54 GMT, you wrote:
>Willy writes:
>
>>No one could have stated this point any better. That bronze sure would
>>have
>>looked nice on the neck of Suzy, the same way those bronzes looked good on
>>the 4x100m. Falling deprived the world, not to mention Suzy herself.
>
>
>Well, I guess Steve Prefontaine really is dead - dead and forgotten. Wasn't
>it Pre's gold-or-nothing go for it spirit that everyone admired for a
>generation or two after his death? I guess those days are over.
Those people are now in their 40's.
Maturity and hindsighted views sometimes combine to create
different conclusions.
Maybe people moving into middle age and senior citizen territory now
value a medal (something to show the grandkids) more than a memory of
'blow-it-out, give it 110%, live-life-for-the-max-now, kill yourself at
25', kind of stuff. That may sound like heroic martyrdom to young kids in
their early 20's who can't think beyond tomorrow, but perhaps when those kids
started to get older, the light bulb started to come on that there's a bigger
picture to life.
Not everybody bought the gold-or-nothing rage to begin with, but we were
yelled down by the Pre-myth-worshippers.
RT
