Live on the BBC at the moment there is a program on to "welcome our olympic hero's back home"
Now our olympians did a good job and quite rightly are getting a lot of praise for it. But hero's? Is somebody having a laugh?
If somebody funded by lottery money decides not to work and to take up a career in athletics is a hero then what do we now call a fireman who rushes back into a burning building to rescue a child? Or a soldier in Afghanistan who rescues his mates? How can you compare people who commit selfless acts like that with somebody who is paid to ride a bike or sail a boat?
Calling these people hero's is an insult to the genuine hero's that this country still produces in abundance.
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