>>5168622The grandeur is not a delusion -- a championship represents the trust of your employer and the belief of its creative charges that you are worthy of its utmost representation. For those who find fulfilment in the advancement of their careers, such achievement must be near the pinnacle of their life's experience, surely. Now, if you, the viewer, do not respect the champion? This is a separate failure for which the company itself bears chief responsibility as its creatives chart the way forward and have great influence on a champion's representation.
If your intention is to criticize athletics in general, I'd rather not engage in a circular 'bread and circuses' debate which became rote in the early days of ecclesiastical expression.
