Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final
This is the kind of things that bother me in current sport. Not that it is a business with backstabbing, just that we paint it as clean and magnificent.<p>An elite athlete also does not have anything to do with the average Joe out Jane, so let's stop pretending about health and normality.<p>I played volleyball for my uni, it was a nightmare and I gave up because of the stress and lack of fun. I then played in "business league" and our team was dreadful. We were always messy but this was pure fun and joy. The other teams knew we were bad and they we would loose, so they played cool, had fun with combinations that they would not risk with other teams etc.<p>We usually ended with 4 or 5 sets because everyone wanted the match to last. And then beer afterwards (I arranged for special funding because we were always the ones to buy the first round...). We had the only mixed team (and thanks god, because the girls were systematically saving the team's ass)<p>This is what I call real, fun, great sport.