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Like everything, the Olympic Games have been influenced by technology. An athlete’s success no longer relies on natural talent or training alone but on the improvements that are engineered through technology and science. But for all of the advancement, all of the ability to use pressure-monitors and tracking devices and cameras to make improvements invisible to the naked eye, the beauty of the games lies elsewhere.
In the moment that a runner crosses the line first, or the gymnast makes a perfect landing, in the moment when a swimmer takes the podium to collect Gold, the avid spectator isn’t thinking about how they worked to get one hundredth of a second faster, or why the angle of their body allowed them to do it. They’re swept up in the glory and patriotism, the excitement and exhilaration. It’s only the what that matters.
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by Tania Braukämper via Fashionising.com
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