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ESPN Classic sports
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From: Sean
Category: TV
Date: 04 September 2003

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a tv channel which shows old sport. which is weird. last night I watched daley thompson win the decathlon at the 1984 los angeles olympics. without the news element, the who's going to win excitement, sport becomes aesthetic. a beautiful striving with the medal already decided; the taking part, the style of the outfits, the neo-classical stadium, the shimmering crowds, the colours of old television. it evokes ours lives at the time, when we were young watching the olympics, what we were doing then and felt about everything. The meaning is amplified and broadened by the preserved athletes of our youth and before. they will run, and throw, and jump forever, and age shall not diminish them, or us.

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