Sports Columns
The Olympic Oath is taken late in the opening ceremony, when thousands of athletes stand and promise to respect their sport and abide by its rules, to compete in the true spirit of sportsmanship and for the glory and honor of their teams. There isn’t anything honorable about badminton today.
The literal meaning is to be delivered from something. To be rescued, perhaps. From what, mind you, did Jordyn Wieber need to be rescued?
I am complete. I met a London mush.
It is not the culmination of a dream. It is the continuation of one. Jake Dalton’s journey carries on.
I would pay to hear Khadevis Robinson speak, to discover how life beckons at certain moments, to learn how he exorcised those demons from 2000 and 2008, to better understand his view that the past is gone and the future doesn’t exist and the only choice we have is to live in the moment.
Another basketball team from the U.S. opened its pursuit of gold Sunday. It beat France, 98-71.
