Recommendations of the Editorial team
It starts on September 13th. Then run, jump and throw them again for their lives. The highlight of all athletes: the Olympic Games remain inside, but athletics world championships are always a show. Around 2000 athletes will start in Tokyo: 49 gold medals are to be awarded inside from more than 200 countries. Although or because I am quite unsportsmanlike, I love to watch competitions – even if you have to suppress reality a bit in view of all the doping cases so that you can still enjoy it. Sometimes the achievements look completely unreal anyway: how can someone jump 6.28 meters high with a thin bar? When the American Swede Armand flies through the air, gravity seems exposed to gravity – and if he is happy again about a world record, you just have to be happy. A magician on the staff.
And what does all this have to do with music? Duplantis recently has a single name under his nickname Mondo “BOP” Published, but we prefer to be silent about it. For him, music therapy means that he can calm down, and so the song already has its justification. We don’t have to hear it.
How many thousands of moments have led to a win? And what price was paid for?
A song that comes to mind every time such sports spectacles take place is “one moment in time”.
Albert Hammond and John Bettis wrote the play for Whitney Houston-it became the hymn of the Summer Olympics in Seoul 1988. Kristin Otto won six gold medals for the GDR in swimming, Florence Griffith-Joyner was three. One claims to have never doped and never gets rid of the suspicion, the other died in her sleep at the age of 38. You wonder: is there really this one moment that changes everything? And how many thousands of moments have led there, what was paid for it?
“Each Day I Live/ I Want To Be/ A Day To Give The Best Of Me”, Whitney sings. Every goal achieved costs – time, nerves, money. At athlete: Inside, it is definitely a hardest training, a lot of torture and pain. Double or not, only the most ambitious do it.
Does a victory mean that you are a winner for all eternity?
Albert Hammond has already done it right – a song with such a topic needs an oversized melody, and a symphony orchestra is also needed, and of course Whitney Houston’s huge voice, which bears the chorus: “I want one moment in time/ when more than I got bbe/ When all of my dreams are a Heartbeat away/ and the Are all up to me! ” The dream of grasping – and only your inability can stop you now. (Or someone who is even better.)
“Give me one moment in time/ when racing with destiny/ and in that one moment of time/ i will feel eternity …”
How does it feel when you run for the bet with fate – and then feel eternity at the finish line? “You’re a winner for a lifetime,” says Whitney, but is that really true? And do you become free, as the song in the end claims? Or isn’t there already the view in triumph that it is going downhill from now on? Then the freedom to fail remains.
For all the hard moments that come as much as a defeat after a win, for courage and motivation in every situation, I recommend Albert Hammond’s most beautiful song, “The Free Electric Band”. A guy gives up his potential career and woman to make music in California – the best doping in the world, and not unhealthy at all. “Just Give Me Bread and Water, Put a Guitar in My Hand/ ‘Cause All I Need is Music and the Free Electric Band.”