SINGAPORE — Pete Townshend, guitarist of legendary rock band The Who, once said, “Rock and roll is very, very important. It is also very, very ridiculous.”
Just think: 22 men chasing a ball for 90 minutes, and billions around the world pay to watch that? Yes, that’s football. How the International Olympic Committee managed to resist calls to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for weeks, hoping beyond hope that somehow the COVID-19 pandemic would die down by July and everyone would be happy enough to enjoy the Games, is a perfect example of the ridiculousness of sports.
Meanwhile, it ignores its biggest, most prized commodity – the athletes eager to showcase their sporting prowess – who remain in the dark over whether they should resume intensive training, or stay at home to stop the spread of the virus. Meanwhile, the popular English Premier League suspended its 2019/20 season until end of April – a wildly optimistic resumption date, judging from the grim outlook of the pandemic in Britain.
Picture this: the fighter defeats his opponent, lets out a victorious roar, raises his hands in triumph – and not a single soul is around to cheer him back. That was how surreal the closed-door, no-fan UFC and WWE fights played out.
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