I want to go back to the Olympics for a minute. They suck me in. Sports I’ve never heard of, countries that might as well be made up as it pertains to my geographical knowledge.
A big reason of why the Olympics are what they is that athletes can’t switch teams. I know I know, it happens sometimes, but you get it.
A participant is tied to the country they’re from. They can’t accept more money from another country to come ice skate for their team. They can’t switch teams cause they enjoy another countries weather more.
You can’t change where you’re from. One of the few decisions we have zero control over in life.
But this limit set on the Olympics holds the charm of the whole thing. Loyalty. And your home country knowing that you are theirs forever. You’re not leaving after this season.
Knowing that my American athletes aren’t leaving makes me feel more connected to them…and therefore I cry more during the behind the scenes footage with the dramatic music. And then I feel more connected and then I cry more and then…
I’m telling you, the moment the Olympics would ever turn into a free-agent athlete situation, is the moment it will crumble.
Believe it or not as humans, we love boundaries, we love limits.
