Buzkashi…. The Greeks would have been very pleased at such a game, and one which still is played today.
A headless dead calf or sheep is the ‘ball’ the riders on horseback, carrying small, lead tipped, whips to hit the horses, and riders – the pack of riders descends on the dead calf and leaning out and down from the saddle they grasp it up from the ground in a mass melee- teams, but also every man for himself, and then the effort is to take it to a goal post and around, scoring a point wile all the other riders, on highly trained horses who have no fear of getting into the the melee, and the fight, try to tear it from the one holding it…. There is no fenced field, and when one with the calf breaks free, and the pack of riders is heading towards the crowd the people vanish fast…. The calf gets torn to shreads eventually, so intense
It is Afghanistan’s National Game, and one which should have been shown to the Politicians before they began their time in the country – it is all for Honour, that most important thing of all in life to a Pathan, it is total of skill at horsemanship, and sheer nerve and pain tolerance, to come unseated in the pack would be the end…
To think of our petty and spoiled athletes sulking on the Prize podium, to show their disdain for their National music and flag, is so disgusting in comparison to what these events should be, it ruins the whole thing….
Hersch Schneider – brilliant! Thanks for encapsulating the horror of living through the triumph of wokery over Honour.
Julie Kemp
2 years ago
Good on ya Tom. It’s all got rather passe (e = ay as i have no digital acute accent available) and cliche (e = ayed.) Like so much else in the public sphere except for certain individuals around the World. The glorious amateur – untainted and undaunted with no fist in the air, nor weakened by bended knee has disappeared from public view.
Dr Stephen Nightingale
2 years ago
Well I was inspired by the victory of Dr Anna Kiesenhofer in the Women’s Olympic Road Race. Which she did in the proper Olympian spirit of being an Amateur, riding as a solo athlete with no ‘Trade’ team or national team to help her, and without any whingeing about the absence of Radios. While various channels’ commentators avoided alluding to her earned Title, they made Midas-like remarks about her possibility of getting a fat professional contract. She is apparently not interested, preferring to continue with her academic career.
Dr Kiesenhofer is the first and possibly the only True Olympian of the current Tokyo Games.
Gary Baxter
2 years ago
Modern Olympics has not only degenerated into a monument of capitalism, but also, worse, a propaganda tool of autocratic regimes.
In communist east Germany and communist China, millions of millions of dollars are spent on young sport talents, in the hope of winning a medal to glorify the regimes. In the process hundreds, thousands of young people wasted their best years, got injured and left the sport teams semi-literate, unskilled for any job and at the bottom of the social heap. East Germany was also notorious for doping and gender fraud.
Olympics symbolises ‘the soaring of human spirit’? Fat cats at IOC, have some human decency,please!
Taking the knee, trans women (geezers) allowed to compete against women.. I won’t be watching.
I shall watch the Equestrian events, only.
Hmm, OK I may do the same. But if I see ONE horse taking the knee.. I’m out.
I believe they do take the knee in the Dressage event …
The Greeks performed naked for a reason.
Buzkashi…. The Greeks would have been very pleased at such a game, and one which still is played today.
A headless dead calf or sheep is the ‘ball’ the riders on horseback, carrying small, lead tipped, whips to hit the horses, and riders – the pack of riders descends on the dead calf and leaning out and down from the saddle they grasp it up from the ground in a mass melee- teams, but also every man for himself, and then the effort is to take it to a goal post and around, scoring a point wile all the other riders, on highly trained horses who have no fear of getting into the the melee, and the fight, try to tear it from the one holding it…. There is no fenced field, and when one with the calf breaks free, and the pack of riders is heading towards the crowd the people vanish fast…. The calf gets torn to shreads eventually, so intense
It is Afghanistan’s National Game, and one which should have been shown to the Politicians before they began their time in the country – it is all for Honour, that most important thing of all in life to a Pathan, it is total of skill at horsemanship, and sheer nerve and pain tolerance, to come unseated in the pack would be the end…
To think of our petty and spoiled athletes sulking on the Prize podium, to show their disdain for their National music and flag, is so disgusting in comparison to what these events should be, it ruins the whole thing….
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=bushkashi&iax=images&ia=images
Hersch Schneider – brilliant! Thanks for encapsulating the horror of living through the triumph of wokery over Honour.
Good on ya Tom. It’s all got rather passe (e = ay as i have no digital acute accent available) and cliche (e = ayed.) Like so much else in the public sphere except for certain individuals around the World. The glorious amateur – untainted and undaunted with no fist in the air, nor weakened by bended knee has disappeared from public view.
Well I was inspired by the victory of Dr Anna Kiesenhofer in the Women’s Olympic Road Race. Which she did in the proper Olympian spirit of being an Amateur, riding as a solo athlete with no ‘Trade’ team or national team to help her, and without any whingeing about the absence of Radios. While various channels’ commentators avoided alluding to her earned Title, they made Midas-like remarks about her possibility of getting a fat professional contract. She is apparently not interested, preferring to continue with her academic career.
Dr Kiesenhofer is the first and possibly the only True Olympian of the current Tokyo Games.
Modern Olympics has not only degenerated into a monument of capitalism, but also, worse, a propaganda tool of autocratic regimes.
In communist east Germany and communist China, millions of millions of dollars are spent on young sport talents, in the hope of winning a medal to glorify the regimes. In the process hundreds, thousands of young people wasted their best years, got injured and left the sport teams semi-literate, unskilled for any job and at the bottom of the social heap. East Germany was also notorious for doping and gender fraud.
Olympics symbolises ‘the soaring of human spirit’? Fat cats at IOC, have some human decency,please!