How elusive is an Olympic Gold Medal?

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An Olympic Gold Medal is a world standard to measure not just a country’s athleticism but more of its economic capability, government stability and social support system. An Olympic Gold Medal mirrors a nation’s strength and its citizen’s success.

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How can a country as small as one of our provinces and has a lower economic growth than  ours produce an Olympic gold medal? More than a world record breaking performance… extraordinarily enough to be unbroken for the next 15-20 years.

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Yes folks, we are talking about Usain Bolt. The phenomenal athlete who blazed the Olympic track, won in the most distinguishing fashion for the last 100 years of the games. A guy who literary grew up eating tubers and trained on grassy fields. His mission was clear, win the Olympic Gold Medal in Beijing, no more no less…

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But what do you think could have fueled him to this kind of performance?

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Usain Bolt was well aware of glory at a very young age.

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Something that only a few of us understand, to many Filipinos, the Olympic Gold Medal is nothing but a dream and so it remains to be up to this day. A feeling of need had not sunk into our veins that we crave each day to become champions. If our country is really serious about uplifting the economy, then we ought to look in improving our sports programs along with our education… Sports promotes discipline. Such morals had been so lacking in our society that even our countries top officials do not have it.

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Glory comes from a well instilled mission. Its accomplishment is the only satisfaction you will consider, there is no other direction for us to move but forward. As the games ended let us reflect, our country has been medal-less for the last 3 Olympic Games and since our joining in 1924 we have not been able to get the elusive gold. We are even being surpassed by newly emerging nations in the world.

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China’s rise to the top clearly established itself as the new world power; they had turned the tides which belonged to the western countries for the longest time.

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The Chinese people had instilled the glory of the games to their young ones at the earliest stage of consciousness; their educational institutions developed ways to nurture this goal in order to develop future world class athletes. They had prepared themselves by instilling a culture of discipline for the last 20 years in order for them to emerge this far.

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We are very far behind from what China has achieved and if I will be sarcastic, they are a year ahead of us for every single gold medal they won. But then economic power is not the secret to get a gold medal in the games, but more of a noble spirit filled with guts, passion, pride and focus to achieve this bold feat.

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Usain Bolt made Jamaica proud and lifted his fellow Rasta’s pride. They have the fastest man in the world…

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What do we have?

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