Sports and politics ideally should be twains that shall never meet. But as usual they meet more often than you would like. Probably that is because you can never compartmentalize things. Everything has something of the other and influence one another.
The saddest thing I read in recent times was the recent Asia Cup football final between Japan and China in Beijing. The Chinese really hate the Japanese due to the Imperial Japan's atrocities during the World War II in the mainland. But then by any token, booing Japanese national anthem was disgraceful.
It reminds of Valluvar's saying which roughly translates to,
"If someone does something bad to you, then shame him by doing good to him". He also adds that if you end up trying to be as bad as him then there is no difference between you and the other guy. Hope sometime that everybody in this world follows the Valluvarian path. Alas, we don't live in an ideal world!
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Politics always interfere with sport-since long time ago.Sport is suppose to heal the 'cold war' and enjoyed by everyone, but then...you know. Just look at South Africa, India and Pakistan. And also the history of sport- eg the olympic.
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