My Olympic Hero - how will I name my hero in a sport full of heroes, in a Games full of heroes - in a world full of heroes?
My Olympic Hero How will I name my hero in a sport full of heroes, in a Games full of heroes – in a world full of heroes? The whole pretext of the 2020 Olympic Games is unique. Globally, the Covid pandemic made the Olympics a fearful, questionable, celebration of global survival, a memorial of so many lost. The Tokyo Games asked as many questions as it provided answers. Could we afford the luxury of an in person gathering to celebrate athletic achievement and to act out world harmony? At our first ever digital Olympics, how would the sport, the competition in the field, act out? Our sport – artistic gymnastics – began the Games with an enormous dark cloud overhanging. Sport in general has become too big for its boots. Political, social and commercial issues far outweigh the wellbeing of athletes. The IOC, FIG, national federations, coaching and medical consortia have forgotten and abandoned their responsibility for athlete welfare. Sport ha