Day: August 11, 2008

There is something about the Olympics that I find very inspiring. The motto “Citius Altius Fortius” goads all of us to be faster, higher and stronger. The dream that has inspired humans to go past their humanness and achieve what makes each sportsperson believe that they too have a shot at inspiring the six billion. When Nadia Comenici hit the perfect ten in gymnastics at the Olympics many years back, the scoreboard read 0 because beyond 9 the scoreboards again went back to a zero. It was not thought to be humanly possible to score ten. Well she certainly proved that perfection was achievable after all. Nadia had like every medal winner proved that it was possible to go beyond what even four years back was celebrated as the ultimate feat a human being was capable of. But winning is not about being logical. (more…)