Unfairness is everywhere, and it really grinds my gears. We may not be able to change the world, but we can change parts of it. And this is why we are building this sports movement.
This morning in a meeting, I asked my colleague Natalie du Toit about the unfairness in swimming – or my perception of it. Having to have the right coach and go to the right school and having to go to the right meets – and her answer stunned me.
Instead of agreeing that the playing field was far from being level, she said that ‘that is just the way it was’ – and that is the narrative we have learnt to believe. That some parents and clubs and some schools can afford the better coaches and the better equipment and that is just the way it is. Natalie obviously had that winning temperament since she was a little girl – way before she earned those 13 gold medals in the Olympics. Some other kids had it better. She didn’t. Yet she slayed it, despite circumstances. And this make me want to scream. It is unfair that kids are left behind without hope due to parents’ circumstances, or the economic climate they grow up in.
By putting our PODs in your hands, you can break these chains. We are going to equip you to be independent and that will give you access to success. Success is not defined by medals, success is your best. Define yourself. PODs can help level the field by letting you decide what you need to succeed in your sports discipline – and if you are not active yourself, help your grandchild. Or your godchild or someone who needs it – this will make you part of the movement and let you play a very important role. Imagine seeing someone medal in Tokyo or Paris and knowing you helped to get them there…. stuff that makes you PROUD inside. With SportsPodium, dreams don’t have to end up in your head – join our movement and let’s make those dreams come true and head towards the podium and not leave them on your pillowcase.
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On the one hand this is all kind of sad on the other it forms the athlete, the will to success, to fight even more and work hard to achieve the goal!!
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Just throwing out my 0.02 here but I believe these diverse backgrounds are what brings some of our greatest champions to the forefront. Without those challenging backgrounds having made them who they are they may have never achieved greatness if they had everything given to them the same as other children. Equality looks great on paper, but when you try to apply that to real life it never seems to sum up.
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I fully agree. There is a tenacity in these people that is not in us....they are wired differently. But unfair is still unfair.
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That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking it is to wonder just how many kids will never achieve greatness because they didn't get everything given to them same as other children?
Look at the most successful athletes in any given sport. How many them actually come from deprived backgrounds as opposed to the number that got all the coaching and equipment and nutrition and time off from school/work they needed?
Just because suffering can breed excellence doesn't mean it will -- and it sure as hell shouldn't have to.
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You may want to look at some of Robert Coles books and findings in which children that come from a poor socio-economic status often find hope and happiness in their lives and are much more adept at over-coming struggles than middle-class and above children who become bored and often have an entitled attitude towards life. Tribulations often build character and help children to become better problem solvers. The most successful athletes(read here Champions) 9/10 times are from poor socio-economic backgrounds...the NFL is littered with them.
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That may well be. However. That is hardly an argument in favour of the suffering and difficulty that comes with being from those backgrounds. Even those champions would have been helped by something like @sportspodium, had it been available.
Maybe there'd have been more champions.
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I agree, no child should have a disadvantage because of their background or area.
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Everyone must have equal opportunity.
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I concur, no tyke ought to have a burden on account of their experience or zone.
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This is such powerful stuff. As long as even one person believe they can make a difference there is a chance to change the world. We should never stop trying to be that one person.
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I am in with the project. I think is promising.
Please, keep posting and explaining here your updates.
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Thanks for the comment. Please join our telegram group. We are chatting there about the detail of the project and we require all the help we can get :)
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Done
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A very nice work and I will continue to follow you and you also follow me ... Have we agreed @bakabou159704
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You can only encourage true competition when everyone is given an equal chance to compete!
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such a powerful message to all
yes, it is true a person can make a difference
we need to start work on some philosophy in which one of them is
never give up
try to do to move towards your goals, goes on and on
until to achieve it
love your post
:)
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Thank you!
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I am following and resteeming your post..
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Exactly,its very touching that children are deprived of their calibre because of negligence of parents .
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a very good post @ me is one of those people who likes sports too, if you are not busy, visit my blog to look around :)
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Nice
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We can still make this world a better place for us. let change the way we think , let change the way we see things and let come together ,join hands together to give our children a better future.
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This is an example for all of us! It does not matter where we come from
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Thank you! Appreciated. (And I love your name btw.)
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Thank you too! :D
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Powerful, well-written post, @sportspodium. Such an important message about the power of something like SportsPodium to change the sporting world, and the lives of budding athletes who might otherwise be blocked from success in the sports they love and excel at simply because they can't afford the right coach, appropriate equipment and the travel costs to get to meets. POD on! 😊😊
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Thank you! What a nice reply to read.
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😊😊
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yes i agree, every life is important and precious.
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The Quran is a child intelligence factory, a fact that the West is trying to hide !!!
The more words the child learns at the age of three to seven years, the greater the level of mental intelligence.
In a study conducted by the English and the French about the Muslim child in Ottoman times, they found that the 7-year-old child learns 77,493 words by memorizing the Qur'an and Ibn Malik's (and this is the equivalent of a young man of our time in his 30s)
The English and the French concluded from this joint study that the reason for the strength of the great Muslim individual is to write the Koran.
France and England abolished the books and replaced us with modern schools that depend on playing in the dangerous years of the life of reason.
Which led to the learning of the Arab child 3 thousand words only
While the Western child learns 13 thousand words ..
This is a cry to all parents and mothers on you Koran to build the generation that will greet this nation and the banner of Azztha.
Which made me happy
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I think it's the drive of the young athlete that will make them a champion. You can have all the advantages of "parents circumstances" and "economic climate" but if the drive isn't there you won't be successful. Many times I've seen athletes who grew up without these advantages but the desire to be great and to get out of those disadvantages is what fueled them to succeed.
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I think is promising
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