These Games will be one before and one after for Argentine sports. And there is no talk of results, defeats, triumphs, or medals, diplomas or stories of overcoming. In Tokyo, traversed by the pandemic and empty stadiums, elite athletes, people who are legend in each of their specialties, are leaving their legacy, their mark. And it generates emotion to see the farewell of the great Luifa Scola, a tear is made when we observe how Little Pareto receives an ovation when arriving at the Olympic Village, our throats close when the Gladiators leave the tournament with the oldest of the Simonet bankrupt because there will be no tomorrow inside a field, and it is worth taking his hat off to see how Lange, already in his 60s, keeps trying and gives everything.
Four incredible athletes who have immense merit. There is something that crosses them: respect, values, going for more, not giving up, the we ahead of the self. These four examples are going through the big door and that big door is not a triumph, it is not a medal. And what does it matter, if the transcendent is not in whether you get on the podium or not, but in the teaching that you left in your peers and for future generations. Everyone competes to be first, that is clear, but history is not only written by those who win. And if not, just look at the last minute of the basketball game between Argentina and Australia. A rival who won with justice, by a landslide, and instead of celebrating his passage to the semifinals, decided to pay tribute to a crack, Mr. Luis Scola.
It is time not to lose these references. It is time for the politicians in charge of Sports to take a step forward but for real. Because to grow, it is necessary for the Scola, the Lange, the Pareto and the Simonet to continue close to each of their activities, so that their entire trajectory serves to know what was done well and what was done wrong, so that there is a comprehensive plan to keep improving in basketball, handball, judo or whatever. Do not depend on litters, individual efforts, collections, instagramers. You can dream of more and for that you have to build. And what better than to take advantage of the legends.
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