How can a person who thinks so unsportsmanlike be a sports commentator?
Due to a strange perversion, I watch the World Athletics Championships on the German Eurosport channel. The women's high jump is going on and the commentator is talking about the fact that the most talented female high jumper is Russian, and this is an additional loss for Russia that the Russian athletes cannot be here. The Germans also hope that they won't be there at the Olympics, so the other nations have a better chance.
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Now 4 things suddenly came to mind:
1) why does the German feel it necessary to talk about this in connection with a sports event, who is interested in his views, or to whom does he want to prove himself? Is this allowed to politicize when it should be broadcasting the events?
2) how can a person who thinks so unsportsmanlike be a sports commentator?
3) how can the president of the Athletics Association, or the president of any sports association, be the one who thinks to defeat the opponent in order to liquidate it? A country as big as Russia would have brought at least as many athletes as the American one, but right now a lot of them will become world champions without a fight. Is that sporty? Isn't it an ancient custom to stop war during the Olympics? Even if this is not possible, at least the war should not be extended to other areas
4) Will Germany continue fascism? He persecutes races, peoples, and then again struggles and compensates with remorse for 50 years, making himself completely unviable?
Featured image: Jaroszlava Mahucsih jumped 201 centimeters alone (Photo: Károly Árvai)