The Olympics Are Coming

The Olympics are coming and while there is homage paid to the sharing of an experience and the gathering of peoples, the issue quickly turns upon winning, and not only winning but also the beating of someone else.  There will be the counting of medals and defining of 'them vs. us,' the implication not always so implicit that we should win since we are good and they are foreign.  Maybe it cannot be other than it is.  Maybe it is another event unable to limit itself to what might be better.