Triathlon and The Loss of The Grand Narratives

What does it mean the loss of the grand narratives?  Let´s see Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative

A metanarrative (from meta grand narrative), in critical theory, and particularly in postmodernism, is an abstract idea that is thought to be[who?] a comprehensive explanation of historical experience or knowledge…In postmodern philosophy, a metanarrative is an untold story that unifies and totalizes the world, and justifies a culture's power structures. Examples of these stories are nationalisms, religion, and science, to name a few. Metanarratives are not usually told outright, but are reinforced by other more specific narratives told within the culture…

Replacing grand, universal narratives with small, local narratives

According to the advocates of postmodernism, metanarratives have lost their power to convince – they are, literally, stories that are told in order to legitimize various versions of 'the truth'. With the transition from modern to postmodern, Lyotard proposes that metanarratives should give way to petits récits, or more modest and "localized" narratives.[citation needed] Borrowing from the works of Wittgenstein and his theory of the "models of discourse,"[5] Lyotard constructs his vision of a progressive politics that is grounded in the cohabitation of a whole range of diverse and always locally legitimated language games. Postmodernists attempt to replace metanarratives by focusing on specific local contexts as well as the diversity of human experience. They argue for the existence of a "multiplicity of theoretical standpoints"[6] rather than grand, all-encompassing theories.

Nothing new, it took almost a century since our great Albert Einstein opened up this new era.  In his book where he explained relativity in 1921, he reasoned:

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/einsteins-special-relativity.html

The genius of Einstein’s discoveries is that he looked at the experiments and assumed the findings were true. This was the exact opposite of what other physicists seemed to be doing. Instead of assuming the theory was correct and that the experiments failed, he assumed that the experiments were correct and the theory had failed.

What in hell triathlon has to do with the loss of grand narratives?

Triathlon coaches see the Brownlees, the Armstrongs and they do not want to see what they see to start thinking, but explained things stupidly as: “They doped;” “they are genetically special.”  Without the Grand Narratives we are lost, but we could have a better second chance as mentioned below.

Think about Queen, the members had “formal” training in classical music.  The same thing happened to Einstein in Physics.  After getting that “formal” training you start your creation and the needed distance from what is known and taught to create and think.  If we do not get the formal training we can end up like the Greeks, the Mayas, the Incas, the Zapotecs (first written language in America), the Aztecs, the Egyptians; they do not know where and when the Grand Narratives were lost in their cultures and perhaps they do not even know what they were and what they are.  I like the film My Life is in ruins for that reason.  We have written in this blog related subjects, April 16, 2012. WHAT A CYBERNETIC TRIATHLON HISTORY IS; and April 25, 2012. GREGORY HOUSE, BRUCE MILLER AND THE ART OF TRIATHLON COACHING.

Eduardo lost the race in Edmonton in the last 200 meters.  He froze during the last 200 meters and entered third.  We have been talking about the situation using simple narratives.  As shown in Coach Carter film where it is said that the “fear to win” is real; doing as Einstein, “deconstructing reality” using simple language like fear.  Please read our previous post.  Einstein said:  "La única justificación de nuestros conceptos y sistema de conceptos reside en el hecho que pueden representar el complejo de nuestras experiencias; pero fuera de ello no poseen otro título de legitimidad." El Significado de la Relatividad. 1993. Planeta, Barcelona.