Reflecting back to our week 12 topic of mentors, i have been thinking lately about the quality of mentors in our sport today, who have the kids of this generation got to look up too?
I mean there are certainly role models in australian sport today, but compared to the role models of yesterday they seem few are far between.
My opinion is that if your getting paid a huge sum of money to play professionally in a sport you've dedicated much of your life to, the thought of binge drinking in public, using illicit substances etc. should not even pop into your mind, it's pure stupidity to throw your career away for a couple of hours of indulgence, the gain is so little when you compare what you potentially loose, this is why i believe the australian athletes have on the whole have become selfish, they want everything, money, fame, publicity and at the same time privacy, freedom, no responsibility; it can never work this way, when one aspect of your life gets bigger, all other aspects are affected in some way and with the addition of todays booming social media industry there is so much more chance of getting caught.
Athletes like todd carney, josh duggan, quade cooper, kurtley beale (sorry for all the rugby ones) have all had incidents such as alcohol, fighting even stealing in the last few years, but sure enough after the intial hype wears off they usually slip right back in, like it never happened, another example is the australian swimming team recently, found to be taking stillnox a recently banned substance by the Australian Olympic Commitee and causing a ruckus as part of a team bonding session, you would think they had more brains, throwing away your reputation for some stillnox, come on really?
Anyway the thats my rant for today over, thanks for reading
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