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High life

The Olympics have become a celebration of human frailty

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

Coronis

Embracing one’s vulnerability seems to have replaced the higher, faster, stronger ethos of the Olympics. The very frailty that makes us human appears to have triumphed over the need to excel, or so the Games sponsors tell us. Not that I watched any of it. Not a single second, so help me you-know-who.

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