Comments on: Is this the most fun you can have on two legs? http://blogs.reuters.com/china/2008/08/22/is-this-the-most-fun-you-can-have-on-two-legs/ Giant on the move Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:43:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: N.W.Haughton http://blogs.reuters.com/china/2008/08/22/is-this-the-most-fun-you-can-have-on-two-legs/comment-page-1/#comment-2613 N.W.Haughton Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:30:30 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/china/2008/08/22/is-this-the-most-fun-you-can-have-on-two-legs/#comment-2613 Usain Bolt's Performance Sports is all about the spectacular and the spectacle.. All sports need the flamboyant player or athlete.. As sports enthusiasts, we do not stay up all night to watch (on TV) or pay our hard earned money to go to games just to see someone run or jump or kick a ball. Sporting events are much more than that. I wonder who is the present World Heavyweight Boxing Champion? Well, most of my friends, who are all sports enthusiasts, do not know and are not bothered that they do not know. Now why is that so? I assure you, that when Mohammed Ali was the World Heavyweight Champion, the entire world knew, and the world cared one way or the other... I WONDER AGAIN, WHAT BOXING WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE WITHOUT THE FLAMBOYANCY OF A MOHAMMED ALI. !!!! "I am the greatest"!!!! "I am the greatest"!!!!! Very soon the games of the 29th Olympiad will be vague in our collective memories. It is the outstanding performers and their performances, the spectacle of the games that will remain in our memories.. The sport should embrace these show-men and show-women. Their impact on the sport, in terms of generating interest in the sport, fan involvement, attracting young people to the sport and television "viewership" etc goes far beyond just running and jumping. Our IOC president has not yet appreciated the impact of these personalities on the sport. Norman W. Haughton Kingston Jamaica Usain Bolt’s Performance

Sports is all about the spectacular and the spectacle.. All sports need the flamboyant player or athlete.. As sports enthusiasts, we do not stay up all night to watch (on TV) or pay our hard earned money to go to games just to see someone run or jump or kick a ball. Sporting events are much more than that.

I wonder who is the present World Heavyweight Boxing Champion? Well, most of my friends, who are all sports enthusiasts, do not know and are not bothered that they do not know. Now why is that so? I assure you, that when Mohammed Ali was the World Heavyweight Champion, the entire world knew, and the world cared one way or the other… I WONDER AGAIN, WHAT BOXING WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE WITHOUT THE FLAMBOYANCY OF A MOHAMMED ALI.
!!!! “I am the greatest”!!!! “I am the greatest”!!!!!

Very soon the games of the 29th Olympiad will be vague in our collective memories. It is the outstanding performers and their performances, the spectacle of the games that will remain in our memories.. The sport should embrace these show-men and show-women. Their impact on the sport, in terms of generating interest in the sport, fan involvement, attracting young people to the sport and television “viewership” etc goes far beyond just running and jumping.

Our IOC president has not yet appreciated the impact of these personalities on the sport.

Norman W. Haughton
Kingston Jamaica

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