a écrit le 1 juillet 2010 à 18h31 2all
There had been a period of time when the Idea of "sport success" of a country was ideologically meant to strengthen the dictatorship of the party in power. That tendency reached its peak levels during the glorious sport success of the USSR, East Germany and other eastern european countries!
The idea for those politics was to create the best athletes in the extreme scientific and biological ways. Those athletes were sent in the face of the world, to represent a powerful and strong image of those countries.
History teaches us that this system litterally collapsed in the 90's, revealling its machiavellian doping and (athlete, child) abusing methods.
The only merit we can allow to that system is its very analytic and scientific manners, based on research, rigour and a lot of work. What we learned is that thoses skills even if they were the results of a politic, could not be associated with the authority power(which allows the worst abuses and ethical overlaps), and that's when I make the relationship with our country, Cameroon!
Cameroon(the government), is using the results of the ILICS in order to strengthen the Party in power, but we forget one thing, we don't have the same determination, neither the same will, nor the same amount of rigour and work and investment to copy those east european countries. One thing is sure, we do it all upside down, despite our love for the ILICS! Not only that we mix up power-politics-and the ILICS, but we don't give all the necessary works to make that ideology happen!
We're therefore late in the history of sports! Not only that we have some USSR ideas, without having the tools, but we are stucked on a pseudo-"democrature".
Actually, the main concern for me is not what will happen in the 2012 African cup of nations, the real issue is what will it be in the presidential elections of 2011?! It's all linked.
There had been a period of time when the Idea of "sport success" of a country was ideologically meant to strengthen the dictatorship of the party in power. That tendency reached its peak levels during the glorious sport success of the USSR, East Germany and other eastern european countries!
The idea for those politics was to create the best athletes in the extreme scientific and biological ways. Those athletes were sent in the face of the world, to represent a powerful and strong image of those countries.
History teaches us that this system litterally collapsed in the 90's, revealling its machiavellian doping and (athlete, child) abusing methods.
The only merit we can allow to that system is its very analytic and scientific manners, based on research, rigour and a lot of work. What we learned is that thoses skills even if they were the results of a politic, could not be associated with the authority power(which allows the worst abuses and ethical overlaps), and that's when I make the relationship with our country, Cameroon!
Cameroon(the government), is using the results of the ILICS in order to strengthen the Party in power, but we forget one thing, we don't have the same determination, neither the same will, nor the same amount of rigour and work and investment to copy those east european countries. One thing is sure, we do it all upside down, despite our love for the ILICS! Not only that we mix up power-politics-and the ILICS, but we don't give all the necessary works to make that ideology happen!
We're therefore late in the history of sports! Not only that we have some USSR ideas, without having the tools, but we are stucked on a pseudo-"democrature".
Actually, the main concern for me is not what will happen in the 2012 African cup of nations, the real issue is what will it be in the presidential elections of 2011?! It's all linked.
