Olympic Medallists Are Not Real Heroes ; Although I Am the First to Applaud All Our Athletes Competing in the Olympic Games in Beijing, I Wish the Bbc Commentators Would Stop Referring to Medal Winners As Heroes and Heroines. They Are Not.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › August 24, 2008

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Although i am the first to applaud all our athletes competing in the Olympic Games in Beijing, I wish the BBC commentators would stop referring to medal winners as heroes and heroines. They are not.

The real heroes and heroines are the underpaid men and women dying in the killing fields of Afghanistan and other war-torn zones.

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Olympic Medallists Are Not Real Heroes ; Although I Am the First to Applaud All Our Athletes Competing in the Olympic Games in Beijing, I Wish the Bbc Commentators Would Stop Referring to Medal Winners As Heroes and Heroines. They Are Not.

In contrast, men and wom...

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