I must admit one item from the Olympics is worth thinking about. Most competitors are expensively equipped and sponsored, with highly specialized custom-made gloves and clothes and helmets. They perform all the expensively trained moves.
The shooting contestant from Turkey showed up in T-shirt and jeans, no ear protectors or goggles, looking like he just happened to stroll past the arena and decided to try shooting for the first time. He lifted his ordinary gun and won.
When you live without expensive equipment, you MUST develop your own skills.
Later, the contrast raises a more relevant constants and variables question. If one contestant wins without any special equipment, and others do well with the equipment, shouldn’t we consider the equipped people to be cheating? It would be cheating in car racing for sure. Every engine is carefully scrutinized for extra gimmicks.
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