Thursday 27 September 2012

London 2012 – An awakening




The human body and spirit is truly remarkable. We get reminded about this marvel ever so often and nowhere is a better arena than the Olympics. What London 2012 has shown us is that we can indeed break barriers no matter how often the ultimate is believed to have been reached. We can breach our limits when we dare and we should dare. The United Kingdom besides hosting a successful games, also performed so brilliantly. It’s was their best medal haul in over 100 years. They finished 3rd. overall behind USA and China with 29 gold medals.

In swimming, it was comfortingly inspiring to see world records tumble after a flurry of record setting through “those” special suits. It was a wonder at one time whether we would see world records ever broken again after those suits were banned but records were not annulled. It was a milestone of a controversy.

But today, we can take contentment in knowing that we can still overcome that and create new heights for other humans to challenge. And there’s nothing aided or artificial about it except for sheer human endurance and capability. We saw many emerging young talents who took the world by storm and that too gave impetus to our expectations that we can validly expect greater achievements from these “super humans”.  


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