A couple of days ago there
was a long and learned academic post on the LSE website about the 2012
Olympics Legacy a subject that seems to be exciting fewer and fewer people
to the dismay of Those Who Believed.
Inevitably, there was one
carping comment:
The “legacy” idea is hocus pocus. After
the 1948 Olympics neither the teenagers then or those about to be teenage made
much, if any, extra effort at games. Admittedly many were working.
The Games just disappeared into the blur
of recent history and we all carried on doing what teenagers normally do to
amuse themselves, being selfish, fixated on our personal lives and seeking easy
entertainment.
It was still the Palais de Dance rather
than the sports pitch.
Unquote.
Who on earth would say something like
that? The medal winner, above in 1948,
lived just down the road from us.
It's a comment on our times too. We don't need academics and graphs to tell us that long term behaviour isn't changed that easily.
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