I don’t believe that things just happen. I really do not think so. Neither in life nor, for example, in sport, which is of course part of life. I mean I don’t think Amancio Ortega, to put a recurring case, is a millionaire not just because he worked more and made more effort than others. And probably because he also had a bit of luck. Luck is very important. And the same thing happens in sports, whoever does things better wins. I I don’t think Real Madrid has fourteen European Cups just because. I also don’t think that Rafael Nadal They have given him the gift of being the best Spanish athlete of all time. I don’t think LIV Golf has offered Jon Rahm the biggest contract in the history of sports for her pretty face, I don’t think so. Nobody gives anything away. It seems to me that Rahm has a natural talent, surely he has had a bit of luck and, later, he has worked harder than the others. As Doncic. I don’t think Doncic is taking the NBA by storm because they let him do it, but because he’s been making his way for a long time. Nothing is coincidental.
There is no coincidence in brilliance and there is no coincidence in mediocrity either. I recently heard Arturo Pérez Reverte To say that, years ago, when someone did not train properly, did not study or did not read, that is, when someone lived in ignorance, it was for the simple reason that they did not have the necessary tools at their disposal to do so. Today things have changed and the staff boasts about their own ignorance, brags about it, walks it down the street, displays it on a daily basis. And that’s not just because. After meeting the PISA report data, which are the worst in a long time, the Catalan Government said yesterday that we had to go back to the basics and teach children to read. Because children, in 21st century Spain, do not know how to read, that is the truth.
I do not think that Pau Gasol He was the first Spaniard to enter the Hall of Fame by chance. And I don’t think that this morning the statue of Federico Martin Bahamontes woke up destroyed in Toledo just because. If the statue of Bahamontes, located in one of the busiest areas of Toledo, has been torn down and torn from its base, it is because, as I also said yesterday Greater Ear, we are doing something wrong. If we do not respect our myths, our idols, if we are not able to admire and thank the best, it is for the simple reason that we do not respect ourselves. And we don’t do it because we are a profoundly ignorant society, which certainly brings me back to the last and disastrous PISA Report.
Federico Martín Bahamontes was not only the first Spaniard to conquer the Tour de France, not only was he a prodigious climber who always went on the attack, but he was a good person, a man of integrity and integrity, humble, always attentive, generous, a example for everyone. Next to Manolo Santana, Seve Ballesteros, Ángel Nieto, Paquito Fernández Ochoa or Joaquín BlumeBahamontes is one of the pioneers of Spanish sport. Einstein said the following: “Setting an example is not the main way to influence others; it is the only way.” If we are no longer even able to respect the unquestionable figure of someone who gave us an example by parading the name of Spain around the world, something terrible is going to happen. It is actually happening. If a group of vandals are capable of meeting at night, secretly, probably cloaked, to tear down the statue of Bahamontes, and in Toledo too, it is because we are already irretrievably lost. They are the first, even if they don’t know it yet. And we later, although we don’t know it either.
2023-12-08 19:56:15
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