Monday, January 21, 2013

Losing is Everything (A Guest Blog by Mitchell Hegman)


Sometimes, I think we are so busy always trying to win that we forget the beauty of merely competing with grace and the grace in losing well.  We presently live in a world of Lance Armstrong doping to gain a few seconds on up-hill climbs and baseball players taking anabolic steroids in hopes of lifting a baseball over the fence
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Everyone strives for the record books.  Nothing else will do.

Thankfully another side of sports exists.  One of my favorite stories is from a Special Olympics event in Washington State many years ago. 

During a running event, one of the contestants took a tumble. Two other runners, seeing the third runner in distress, stopped and ran back to help the fallen runner.  After a few assurances, all three runners locked arms and crossed the finish line in last place as one. 



--Mitchell Hegman

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5 comments:

  1. Mitchell HegmanJanuary 21, 2013 at 5:00 AM

    Thanks for allowing me a spot, Ariel Murphy! I like the picture.

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    1. Ariel MurphyJanuary 21, 2013 at 5:08 AM


      My pleasure Mitchell Hegman. The story was beautiful and well-written.

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    2. Ariel MurphyJanuary 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM

      The story happened in Spokane, Washington in 1976 during the Special Olympics for the mentally and physically disabled.

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  2. shootersroom210January 22, 2013 at 3:59 AM

    nice
    now whatever Vitamin Lance Armstrong was taking,,, I WANT SOME hahahah

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  3. shootersroom210January 22, 2013 at 7:55 PM

    no one loses what they dont have.
    only the illusion is lost.
    thatz a win.

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