POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"Owning the podium" is a genuinely stupid
expression, full of the kind of unthinking arrogance that is the precise
opposite of the character-building qualities so often claimed for sports.
Of course, that phrase is the official Olympics jingle of
the politician the Globe endorsed in the last election, so politics play a role
in your repeating it.
And sports, while they can entertain and sometimes thrill,
cannot "inspire" anyone, unless the person being inspired happens to
think in the tired clichés of this sad editorial writer.
Pathetic language, but definitely in keeping with the new
low standards for Globe editorials.
