Definitions by The Original Agahnim
Special
Saying that nobody is special is a half truth. Either nobody is special or everybody is special, from infant to terminally ill elderly people. The reality is people can still do things to make themselves unwelcome, and nobody has to accept or permit/allow anything or anyone in particular.
There is no all inclusive truth about whether people are special or not, or whether everyone is welcome or not. It will always be based on an individual basis by someone's actions and not on the way they look on the surface that determines whether they are welcome or not, or whether they do something special or not, and that won't change.
Special by The Original Agahnim August 6, 2021
Skills
Everybody has different skills and different weaknesses, so saying one person's skill is superor to another is wrong, even if it's a more difficult skill or one that took more time and work.
Sports and games aren't enjoyable when one person's skills are called superior to another, and really a judge disregards the efforts of both athletes by doing that (including the one that got the gold medal). Hopefully no athlete is in it to be better than others. Your skills take you where they take you, and that's it.
Skills by The Original Agahnim August 6, 2021
Technical superiority
There's no such thing as technical superiority, it's one of the bullshit terms they made for the Olympics that isn't based on reality, and judges are the kind of people that perpetuate it. A guy can go out and wrestle his way to a gold medal and that's great, but it's not just about winning and nothing else is sacred. It's also how you get a job done, and a gold medal doesn't make you better than the next guy, that's never the point. Hopefully being better than others is not why people dream of being in the Olympics, no matter their country. Once something goes beyond getting as far as you take yourself to one person being better than another, it's not a good thing for people to reach for.
There are technically skilled athletes, and they are champions in their own right, but telling them they are technically superior or that there is such a thing as technical superiority to another human being is wrong, and it's not a trend that should continue. The Olympics are meant to be games, not a superiority measuring contest or battle. That is not enjoyable for anybody, including the athletes (though the judges and announcers might get off on that sort of thing).
Technical superiority by The Original Agahnim August 6, 2021
Men's track
Being young and inexperienced is tough, you know there is a right moment to wait for, and you also know that does you no good if you're not ready to strike at the right time, you haven't always found a balance or a rhythm yet, and you get thrown out of rhythm before you find your rhythm, it can happen to a vet with years of experience and too many medals to count. Really if you're happy with a silver or bronze, or even just showing up, your country is with you no matter what, even if you don't look, act, or think like they do, and they're not going to stop believing in you if you don't stop believing in you. Really it is only you that ends up letting yourself down or being disappointed at the end of the games. A little bit of extra pain to endure and fight through for a gold might not be worse than a few years of frustration for you, but it's really nobody else's split second decision to make.
There's really just one thing that would defeat the purpose of going to the Olympics in the first place for the men's track, and that is give up because of a few stumbles. Whether you win or lose, you might as well fight through to the end, especially if you're young and you're going to be doing it a lot in the future. Starting a habit of giving up isn't going to get things done for you, and showing yourself or your teammates some tough love isn't the same thing as hating yourself/yourselves if you don't win a gold medal.
Men's track by The Original Agahnim August 6, 2021
Men's track
What's possible is only possible if you fight all the way through to the end and you won't fight the whole way through if you lose focus halfway through. The Olympics are almost over and there will be plenty to get distracted by afterward, no matter what mishaps you had yesterday, you can still finish strong so that you don't feel like all the work is ahead of you in life.
The Olympics is almost over, but it's not over yet. Men's track isn't beyond redemption if they want redemption, but they've really let some slips get to them and get them stuck for a few days.
Men's track by The Original Agahnim August 6, 2021
Men's track team
Having young and (Olympics) inexperienced teams hasn't stopped the women's track, the swimmers, gymnasts, or the numerous other sports, so why should the Men's track team let it stop them from reaching their dream? They don't owe it to anybody else, but as hard as they worked, they might as well take a gold home before they leave Tokyo, not that they have to. If there's a job you really want to get done, you feel better if you get it done than waiting for it to happen in a few years. If you tell yourself you'll be ready in a few years, you most likely will, but you will also not be ready for something great that could happen to you now.
Men's track team by The Original Agahnim August 5, 2021
Safe
Anything that is safe isn't something the media has to convince you is safe. People have good enough sense and intuition to know what is safe and what is not. If a doctor tells you jumping off a bridge is safe, do you listen to a doctor because the doctor is qualified, or do you make sure you don't try it without a bungee cord if it's above a certain height , especially if it's not a bridge over water?
People know what is safe and what is not, they also know anybody trying desperately to convince them something is safe is a questionable source, even if it's the media.
Safe by The Original Agahnim August 5, 2021