"The essence of the games is not to win, but to participate. You don't gotta win to fight well."

It is so hard not to ask why, due to the fact that the words of the cheering song "Poles, nothing happened" are neither a comfort nor an explanation. The case is multidimensional, it might be worth a fewer of these dimensions to mention in this column. surely our national features are neither specialisation nor stabilisation. We compete in almost all competitions, but we are not favorites in any. Even if in any discipline we were for a time a power (box, athletics), this does not translate into training successors, and short-lived fashion for a given discipline passes as rapidly as fashion in the clothing industry. A good illustration is the fact that 2 of these 10 medals were won in the competition of climbing on the wall, which discipline debuted at the Olympics.

It is besides worth noting that 8 medals were won by women and only 2 men. In addition, men won medals exclusively in squad competitions – a volleyball squad and 4 doubles in rowing. No Pole so won a medal in individual competition. There is no area for amateurs in the contemporary Olympics. In order to accomplish success internationally, not only talented athletes, professional trainers, medical staffs, but besides sponsors and managers who will bring all these elements to the common denominator, which is the will to accomplish success. The question here is whether, at least in part of Polish sports unions, activists, as communes, cities treat their functions in a servile way, fight among themselves for proverbial seats and associated apanages. This cannot be separated from politics, especially now, after December 13, 2023, when, in various areas of social and public life, it is restored to the favors of disgraced communist apparatusists.

I fear that alternatively of a deep reflection on this phenomenon, we will be given any kind of Games after the Games. Already during the Olympics, the media, these "well-informed" leaks, that the right-wing candidate in next year's election for the President's Office may be the head of the Polish Olympic Committee Radosław Piesiewicz. And here, just a day after the Games ended, any enchanted wand made the president of PKOL a major for left-wing liberal media, or possibly the only culprit of the sports defeat in Paris. The attack on him is so intense that you can anticipate arrests any day, according to the law, as Tusk and Bodnar understand. After all, it is the decapitated head of Maria Antonina presented during the inauguration of the Paris Games that becomes the icon of the European policy of tolerance and love. She was yet guillotined after a two-day trial, that is, according to the law, just as the Revolutionary Court understood them out of hate.

Thus, Polish athletics falls victim to politics. But not only Polish interior policy, but also, and possibly even above all, it is simply a victim of European and global political correctness. due to the fact that did Poland not truly win at least 2 gold medals in Paris? After all, the boxing runner Julia Sheremeta defeated all the rivals she faced in the Olympic ring. She lost at the end to a man not allowed to enter a women's competition by a planet boxing organization. A man whom MKOL considered a female in the name of tolerance. The decision was scandalous adequate that left-wing liberal media had to grasp desperate arguments to legitimize and justify the MKOL decision. A writer from the German portal Onet went to the limits of absurdity, saying: “First of all, sexuality in general is not as clear as it may seem to us on a regular basis." Well, all I have left is this editor's heartfelt sympathy. If for him "sex mostly is not so unambiguous", then in a peculiar case, the editor can get rather a fill.

But, yeah, but. Is Julia Szermeta's triumph the only gold medal received in Poland? But before I rise another issue, another dimension of the defeat of Poles at the Games in Paris, due to the politically incorrect thesis, I will start with a brief introduction, a brief explanation. In many disciplines there are mandatory alleged categories. There are presently 10 of them in boxing – from paper (player weight to 49 kg) to super dense (weight over 91 kg). likewise in wrestling, although this discipline has its own division by category, in addition different for free kind (from the lowest to 55 kg to the highest above 125 kg) and classical 1 (by 57 kg and above 130 kg). Another division is binding in judo, and it is different for women and men. Somehow, it never occurred to anyone that more than a hundred-pound player would fight a filigree weighing little than 50 kilograms, and that specified a fight would be an expression of equality and tolerance. It has not occurred to anyone, either, that the introduction of division into weight categories is discrimination against heavier players, who are deprived of the right to show their "sportsmanship" with impunity over any "hover".

Weight categories are characteristic of combat sports, strength sports. But in all athletics there is simply a division into age categories. For example, in athletics there is simply a category of young people (up to 15 years), juniors (16 – 17 years old), juniors (18 – 19 years old), young people (20 – 22 years old) and seniors over 23 years old. And while a highly talented junior or youth may be trying to compete with seniors, it has not occurred to anyone to let within the framework of equality and tolerance of a 30-year-old athlete to compete with 12-year-old or 14-year-old children. And no 1 considers this to be discrimination.

After this introduction, I think I can return to the question of another gold medal received by Poland during the Olympics in Paris. Polish sprinter Ewa Swoboda did not qualify for the 100 m run final taking 9th place. But all the finalists of this run, all the 8 players who overtaken Eve's freedom... were black. Is not skin color, race, like gender, weight, or age of an athlete a categorizing feature? I stress – categorizing alternatively than discriminatory. The motoristic characteristics of black people are different from those of white people. This gives a crucial advantage in any disciplines, frequently hard to overcome with tedious training. So possibly 1 of the sports journalists would undertake to make a medal classification of the Olympics in Paris among white athletes? What place in specified classification would Poland take? To be clear, I have nothing against competing Polish athletes with players from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda or another countries of their origin. Different races, different cultures, different climates – all this does not exclude interesting competition, or possibly even a kind of challenge. But the problem is that black athletes are the backbone of the representations of countries specified as France, the Netherlands, Britain and late even Germany. And someway in an astonishing way, this "equal" ideology is not symmetrical, it does not work both ways. someway I have not heard that a white sprinter from Europe represents Uganda or Jamaica, that a white long-distanceer from Europe should be taken in by Ethiopia and become her main hope for an Olympic medal. Similarly, I have not heard that a female who feels culturally like a man starts to compete in men's boxing competitions. The probability account says that these phenomena should be symmetrical, akin in quantity. And it is not, and so far no 1 (yet no 1 .....) has undermined the probability account.

Is it not so that the rich European countries that built their wealth on the exploitation of colonial states proceed to do so? Is it not that rich European states do not aid mediocre African countries, there, on the spot, due to the fact that then a talented black athlete would represent his homeland at the Olympics and it would be for her to win medals? Is it not that alternatively of this, the slogan is “herzlich willkommen” to bring these “refugees” into their representation to win medals for France, Germany, and the Netherlands? How is it that little than 18 million Netherlands took 6th (SZÓSTE) place in the medal classification of the Paris Games, winning a full of 34 medals, including 15 zlotys? possibly 1 of the sports journalists would like to number how many of these medals were won by white athletes, Native Dutch? Is this consequence not a veiled continuation of the colonial politics of the Kingdom of the Netherlands?

As I wrote at the beginning of this column, the mediocre consequence of Polish athletes at the Games in Paris is simply a multidimensional matter. Therefore, it is crucial to talk honestly of all these dimensions, not only of those politically correct. And utmost dishonesty is to bring defeat to only 1 dimension that can be played absolutely and cynically in the current political struggle.

Mr Bogdan