Reading after the ITU last publication regarding Gold
Coast where Jonny Brownlee and Gwen Jorgensen showed what is needed to be a
real champion, it made us come back to our great teacher Jorge Luis Borges. Borges
is the soft, smart, unique product of the Americas who “wrote everything.” The
product of the human race created after the Europeans encounter with this
continent. The pinnacle of our thoughts
in this New World; the evolution of Nietzsche, Einstein, Wittgenstein.
Ragnarök :: J.
L. Borges
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we
think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx ;
we dream a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel. If this is so, how
could a mere chronicle of its forms transmit the stupor, the exaltation, the
alarm, the menace and the jubilance which made up the fabric of that dream that
night? I shall attempt such a chronicle, however; perhaps the fact that the
dream was composed of one single scene may remove or mitigate this essential
difficulty.
The place was the School of Philosophy and Letters; the time, toward
sundown. Everything (as usually happens in dreams) was somehow different; a
slight magnification altered things. We were electing officials: I was talking
with Pedro Henríquez Ureña, who in the world of waking reality died many years
ago. Suddenly we were stunned by the clamor of a demonstration or disturbance.
Human and animal cries came from the Bajo. A voice shouted “Here they come!”
and then “The Gods! The Gods!” Four or five individuals emerged from the mob
and occupied the platform of the main lecture hall. We all applauded,
tearfully; these were the Gods returning from a centuries-long exile. Made
larger by the platform, their heads thrown back and their chests thrust
forward, they arrogantly received our homage. One held a branch which no doubt
conformed to the simple botany of dreams; another, in a broad gesture, extended
his hand which was a claw; one of the faces of Janus looked with distrust at
the curved beak of Thoth. Perhaps aroused by our applause, one of them — I know
longer know which — erupted in a victorious clatter, unbelievably harsh, with
something of a gargle and of a whistle. From that moment, things changed.
It all began with the suspicion (perhaps exaggerated) that the Gods did
not know how to talk. Centuries of fell and fugitive life had atrophied the
human element in them; the moon of Islam and the cross of Rome had been
implacable with these outlaws. Very low foreheads, yellow teeth, stringy
mulatto or Chinese mustaches and thick bestial lips showed the degeneracy of
the Olympian lineage. Their clothing corresponded not to a decorous poverty but
rather to the sinister luxury of the gambling houses and brothels of the Bajo.
A carnation bled crimson on a lapel and the bulge of a knife was outlined
beneath a close-fitting jacket. Suddenly we sensed that they were playing their
last card, that they were cunning, ignorant and cruel like old beasts of prey
and that, if we let ourselves be overcome by fear or pity, they would finally
destroy us.
We took out our heavy revolvers (all of a sudden there were revolvers in
the dream) and joyfully killed the Gods.
Translated by J. E. I.
The Gods always come back and we should be ready to
answer before being killed by them:
What we learned from #WTSGoldCoast
· 2. American women are
taking over
· The USA have claimed seven
of the nine total podium positions in the last three WTS races. Gwen Jorgensen
tallies three gold medals, Katie Zaferes has two silvers and a bronze and Sarah
True earned her first medal of the season with the silver in Gold Coast. With
their 1,2,3 sweep on the Australian course, plus the addition of Lindsey
Jerdonek and Kaitlin Donner coming in in the Top-20 Columbia Threadneedle
Rankings, the USA is the country to beat this season.
· 3. Back-to-back Brownlee
· The younger Brownlee
brother is staking claims on the 2015 season, first with a victory in Auckland
and then in Gold Coast. But what is impressive with the past two performances
of Jonathan Brownlee is not the two consecutive victories alone, but rather the
way he has earned his titles. It seems that the British athlete is keen on
domination, proving through all three disciplines that he has no weaknesses and
his leadership on the course is untouchable. While he is taking a break from
the competition in Cape Town to allow his older brother Alistair to open up his
own WTS season, there is a lot left in Jonny this year, and it is going to be
an exciting experience to follow to see what he does next.
· 5. Was Gold Coast too
technical?
· The very technical 40km
bike course in Gold Coast proved to be tough on the execution. The bike course
varied from the path that was laid out in 2009 when the Queensland city hosted
the Grand Final. But this year's bike was surprisingly tough with it's quick
hills and tight turns. Jonny even dubbed it one of the harder courses he had
competed on.
How to make the sport of triathlon more even? Let’s not listening to the Gods. Triathlon is a team sport and Brownlee has
been fighting a “bunch of imbeciles,” as Armstrong mentioned ones, regarding
the cycling European circuit.
16 févr. 2012
In 2007, Armstrong was interviewed by Ciclismo a
fondo. 267: 46. He said: “The reason why Johan and I were
able to win was because we competed against a bunch of imbeciles. We had a modern planning…There were a bunch
of ranchers running around us…still the same situation in cycling.” I would say that he approached triathlon the
same way and thinks the same way. Not to
blame him for such thing, most likely he´s still correct.
Jonny Brownlee did not have teammates in the first ITU
competitions of this year. There is no
brain in many competitors working for nothing or for no cause who were just
riding the bike to catch the first peloton, knowing that they were not going to
run. Just remember what Borges’ short
story says: “The Gods already lost their humanness after climbing stairs to be
part of ITU and the “save” is not going to come from them.” Triathlon should be organized as cycling
teams (but in a better way). We should have
triathlon teams; not relays teams. Most
of the American females know this way of working and they will continue winning
without problems until somebody want to be important; something that has always
happened (remember Athens Olympics where they lost the gold).
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