Estate Living September 2016 Digital Issue | Page 18

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meritocracy

The Olympics are now over – thank Apart from the legend that is Usain Bolt, it
goodness, I can hear some of you seems that a medal has become a rather
devalued item − dirtied and tarnished, as
saying!
the primary sports and top individuals,
As youngsters my friends and I all thought and indeed entire nations, stagger from
that the Olympics were THE pinnacle one scandal to another, be it around
of sporting and athletic achievement, financial shenanigans and corruption
even though they excluded those more or the seemingly endemic problem of
traditional ball games which we played performance-enhancing drugs, or doping.
during our school years: soccer, cricket,
football, rugby and, for me personally in To be fair, golf has had its fair share of “dope”
scandals, but fortunately these have been
the later stages, golf.
largely limited to the “dopey” decisions