Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Heather Stanning, Helen Glover...

Helen Glover, Heather Stanning, Lizzie Armistead, Kate Walsh, Loius Smith, Sam Oldham, Kristian Thomas, Max whitlock, Dan Purvis, Brad Wiggins, Tom Daley, Zoe Smith... the list goes on and on.

Are we finally realising that there are real heroes out there? Exchanging our love of vacuous, self indulgent celebrities with people who can actually do great things, yet conduct themselves with modesty and dignity?

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

hear hear

Sutton Tutor said...

Well said, Frank.

Anonymous said...

Fantastic personal achievements and good positive role models, but not really heroes.

Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur said...

Yes quite - compare them to the cnuts who play football like John Terry, Joey Barton, and Ryan Giggs.

Anonymous said...

Sorry Frank none are heroes.
Heroes are men and women who are prepared to lay down their lives for another human being. Few and far between.
These people can be an inspiration and role model but not heroes.

Anonymous said...

Do great things? They have extended a hobby they happened to be good at into a lucrative career. That's not noble, that's very very fortunate. I'd have more respect if they were truly amateur.

Anonymous said...

Miserable g*ts

Johnny said...

It was all lottery funded: the training and funding of coaches. How I loathe the lottery - a tax on those that are the poorest in society (a tax on the stupid?).

Kaptain_Von said...

Extremely talented sportsmen and women...yes, good role models, in the main...yes, heroes...no.

A true hero is someone who selflessly does something for others at the risk of their own life. I classify my friends son Matt as a hero as he gave his life saving half a dozen of his squadmates from an IED even though he could have backed off at any time.

Anonymous said...

Role models? Yes. Heroes? No.

I always find it odd that people look for heroes with flaws when if one looks at the Greek classics all the heroes had flaws. I think people's definition of a hero has become not just unrealistic but unattainable.

@Kaptain_Von: Sorry to hear about the loss of your son's friend.

Anonymous said...

Of course, I meant "without flaws" in the first instance of the second paragraph.