Why should I care about the Olympics?
1st August 2012
My answer to Why should I care about the Olympics? on Quora
The sponsors, money and so on make it easy to forget the key thing: many of the athletes competing are still teenagers who have spent most of their lives preparing for this one event. That’s pretty amazing.
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