Sunday, January 4th, 2009
By their very nature, all sports are adversarial in that one team or individual has to beat the opposition. Team sports seem to bring out the worst in people arousing tribal emotions akin to war. In my distant memory, I recall that El Salvador and Guatemala once went to war over a soccer match. Sheer bloody stupidity.
Individual competitions command a deep loyalty but they never seem to arouse people to fight like team sports do. And of all of these, horse races seem to arouse less rancour. OK so you have bet on the 2nd but you still marvel at the winner especially if it is a recognised champion and you are unified in the glory of its success.
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