{"id":4958,"date":"2013-01-30T19:41:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inveske.co.uk\/the-fall-tiger-woods-and-lance-armstrong\/"},"modified":"2013-01-30T19:41:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:41:03","slug":"the-fall-tiger-woods-and-lance-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/the-fall-tiger-woods-and-lance-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The fall: Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just answered a question in Quora and thought I’d reproduce it here. The question was:\u00a0Whose fall from grace was worse: Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong<\/a>?<\/p>\n

And my answer was:<\/p>\n

”<\/p>\n

I think they are both very different and bear a scary similarity.<\/p>\n

The difference is obvious: Tiger Wood\u2019s fall from grace has nothing to do with his accomplishments. It shouldn\u2019t even be a matter of public disgrace weren\u2019t if for the fact that public opinion reflects the conservative moral stands of the masses.<\/p>\n

Lance Armstrong\u2019s fall from grace is a sports political debate. It brings forth the \u201cdirty secret\u201d avoided by all high performance athletes that remain subservient to the WADA\/IOC dictatorship, whose hands reach deep into public policy and corporate life. It is not expected from the public to understand that performance enhancing STRATEGIES, of which the pharmacological are just a part, have a long history and are part of the game. They have been brought to higher levels during the Cold War and haven\u2019t subsided since because of the rise in sports investments in general.<\/p>\n

Each one is a separate, sad discussion on the nature of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

What they bear in common has nothing to do with the athletes in question. Both falls reveal the sadistic, envious, hypocritical and conservative nature of public opinion, so easily manipulated by the media.<\/p>\n

In other words, there\u2019s nothing new about what these scandals \u201creaveal\u201d: monogamy is just an agreement in a partnership and does not involve anyone else besides the partners. It is not good or bad \u2013 it is just a clause in a contract that unfortunately is sanctioned by the State and churches. Besides that, history seems to show that this is not the easiest clause to obey in such agreements. The guy hasn\u2019t (as so many other billions haven\u2019t). So what?<\/p>\n

The other one has been juicing and denying it. What\u2019s new here? EVERYBODY does it! By definition! If you don\u2019t, then you\u2019re out! And I mean it: if you don\u2019t juice AND if you don\u2019t deny it.<\/p>\n

What may be new, and that depends on reactions, is exposing the hidden subjects in these matters: the \u201csilent majority\u201d and the institutions. I would love to see fragmentation become loud enough to be heard and scare the hell out of the crowds.”<\/p>\n

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I just answered a question in Quora and thought I’d reproduce it here. The question was:\u00a0Whose fall from grace was worse: Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong? And my answer was: ” I think they are both very different and bear a scary similarity. The difference is obvious: Tiger Wood\u2019s fall from grace has nothing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1697,1471,1698,1538,15,1699,1700,1366,1701,1702,1540],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}