Posted: Jun 05, 2019 5:56 pm
GrahamH wrote:Destroyer wrote:
Yes, superstars can be good for sports! Do you think that Cito was denying this with his statement? I didn't. If you weren't sure, you could have just asked him if that is what he meant?
It should have been evident from my first post that this is not what I meant.
His words were not ambiguous and he didn't volunteer any clarification or respond when challenged. He didn't merely say that competition was more important than champions, which is perhaps how you took it. He literally stated "What's desired is not champions, but competition.". Literally champions are not desired, competition is what is desired.
He had ample opportunity walk back from that literal meaning to the meaning you prefer and it seem to me he only dug in deeper.
But that's cito, he's usually on the attack.
Since this thread is nominally about the IAAF regulations, I hoped you'd be able to figure it out for yourself. It's true, I didn't do you any favors in meeting demands for clarification, but recognizing confusion and nuisance posting is not the same as being on the attack. The attack comes from your not really having a point of your own, and projecting the attack into others in order to cover.
I've seen a fair quantity of shit in this thread about peripheral issues such as whether someone's right to make a living is being abridged by such regulations. That's neither here nor there in the presumable intent of the regulation, but somebody's always available to read discrimination into whatever shit might be going on.
A few members of this board just like arguing in and of itself, but not all of those really know how to say what their point is; they're only getting feisty because somebody didn't heap glowing praise on their 'argument', or often just because there's another member involved who they've learned not to like or trust for honest discourse.