• rav3n@ttrpg.network
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    22 hours ago

    If American athletes have any self-respect, they’d sit out in protest.

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      21 hours ago

      Unfortunately sports is too intertwined with big money. It’s unlikely to happen.

      It must be tough to spend so long training, to get to a peak of your passion and then feel the pressure of not parting, not getting a shot at gold, because it clashes with ethics.

      But I suppose the truth is to persue something like this in the first place you had to do a deal with corporate sponsorship so that’s that.

      I am not trying to say years of training overrides ethics, just that it will be a tough choice for a lot, they are only human, trying to do something extraordinary. We continually tell people shoot for the stars.