Archivo etiqueta «Deporte»
By Efraim Karsh, the head of Middle East and Mediterranean studies at King’s College London and the author of Islamic Imperialism: A History and the forthcoming Palestine Betrayed (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/02/10):
We may scoff at the idea that the Olympic Games have anything to do with the “endeavor to place sport at the service of humanity and thereby to promote peace,” as the Olympic charter enshrines as its ideal. But at least nations across the world were able to put aside differences for two weeks of friendly competition in Vancouver.
A mundane achievement, perhaps, but it’s one that’s… Seguir leyendo
By Matthew Syed (THE TIMES, 17/02/10):
The body of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian competitor in the luge killed at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday, will arrive back in the icy hills of Bakuriani today.
The coffin will be met by his grieving father David, who yesterday spoke of his sense of loss and incomprehension. “He feared that curve,” he said, holding aloft a photo of his dead son. “I told him, ‘You just take a slower start.’ But he said: ‘Dad, what kind of thing you are teaching me? I have come to the Olympics to try to win’.”… Seguir leyendo
Por Jaume Llopis, profesor de IESE Business School (EL PERIÓDICO, 09/02/10):
Inmersos en una profunda crisis económica desde hace más de dos años, estamos viendo y oyendo noticias diarias sobre un número creciente de empresas en concurso de acreedores, expedientes de regulación de empleo, cierres de fábricas, dificultades para acceder a la financiación bancaria, despidos, recorte de gastos y de inversiones, etcétera. Sin embargo, nadie o muy pocos se atreven a poner de manifiesto el escándalo que supone la situación económica y financiera de casi todos los clubs de fútbol españoles y europeos. ¿Es tema tabú? ¿Es el nuevo opio… Seguir leyendo
By Raymond Tallis, a writer and physician, a former Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester andthe author of the forthcoming book, Michelangelo’s Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence (THE TIMES, 23/01/10):
The futility of golf, an appalling waste of the gift of life, has been insufficiently acknowledged. I suspect that God, if he had existed and had seen the game coming, would have appreciated the positive qualities of the void and left it alone, uncontaminated by the Creation. But there are times when even golf gets interesting. The current brouhaha surrounding Tiger Woods’s exertions in the 19th… Seguir leyendo
By Ed Smith, a leader writer at The Times and a former England cricketer (THE TIMES, 12/01/10):
Physically imposing, vastly talented, sometimes irascible, often headstrong: Emmanuel Adebayor is no one’s idea of a sporting softie. So the television footage of an emotional Adebayor clinging tearfully to his team-mates was especially poignant. It followed a lethal gun attack in Angola on the bus of the Togo national team at the Cup of African Nations. More deaths in Africa; but this time they have captured our attention.
For Adebayor, one of the English Premier League’s most recognisable players, it should have been… Seguir leyendo
Por Antonio Franco, periodista (EL PERIÓDICO, 06/11/09):
En nombre de la justicia, para evitar que en el futuro los megacracks multimillonarios extranjeros de nuestros equipos de fútbol continúen pagando menos impuestos que los trabajadores españoles que los aplauden, el Gobierno de Zapatero, a propuesta de los demás partidos de izquierda, prepara un cambio fiscal. Si ese proyecto entra en vigor, que eso está por ver, en vez pagar el IRPF rebajado del que han disfrutado hasta ahora, que es de un 24 %, pasarían al baremo de las demás personas con ingresos millonarios: un 43%. Ahora que Hacienda busca dinero… Seguir leyendo
Por Manuel Mandianes, antropólogo del CSIC y escritor. Es autor del blog Diario nihilista (EL MUNDO, 30/10/09):
La popularidad de un deporte depende de su capacidad de ser espejo y de crear identificación. En estas últimas fechas del calendario español, pocos acontecimientos han logrado enganchar a tanta gente y suscitar tal interés de los medios de comunicación de todo el mundo como la epopeya protagonizada el martes por los jugadores del modesto Alcorcón al vencer al todopoderoso Real Madrid. ¿Por qué el balompié suscita una curiosidad, sino un interés, generalizada?
Los futbolistas encarnan la indomable violencia de las fuerzas primitivas… Seguir leyendo
By Daniel Johnson, editor of Standpoint and author of White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard (THE TIMES, 23/09/09):
In 1984, the Orwellian year in which Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov first sat down to play, chess was as Russian as vodka. The rematch that began this week in Spain marks the resumption of a duel between two names as evocative of Russia as Stolichnaya. But why should anyone who is neither a chess buff nor a Russophile still raise a glass to these old rivals?
I can think of at least three… Seguir leyendo
By Paul Kedrosky, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, a center for economic research (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/09/09):
ROGER FEDERER is getting teased, and not just because he lost the U.S. Open last week to Juan Martin del Potro. He is being mocked for his terrible eye. He challenged more calls in the U.S. Open than any other competitor, and yet he had one of the lowest success rates of any of the top players.
Insult to injury, right? Wrong. Federer is adept at challenging tennis calls, and he should challenge more of them — as should his… Seguir leyendo
By Stefan Szymanski, Professor of Economics at Cass Business School and co-author with Simon Kuper of Why England Lose (THE TIMES, 05/09/09):
How free do you think you are? Suppose someone approached you tomorrow and offered to double your current salary if you came to work for them — are you free to go?
You probably think you are but, depending on the type of contract you have, you might not be. If, for example, you are a smart software developer your employer may have put a clause in your terms of employment preventing you from working for the competition… Seguir leyendo
Por Miquel Porta Perales, crítico y escritor (ABC, 31/08/09):
En mayor o menor medida, el deporte siempre ha llamado la atención de filósofos, sociólogos y psicólogos. Por ceñirnos a la época contemporánea, la filosofía alemana de la primera mitad del siglo XX quizá fue la primera en percibir la importancia que el deporte iba cobrando día a día. Si Max Scheler llamaba la atención sobre «ese poderoso fenómeno supranacional de la época actual que ha crecido inconmensurablemente en magnitud y aprecio», Norbert Elias preguntaba cómo «explicar que un entretenimiento inglés denominado sport pudiera servir como modelo del ocio a escala… Seguir leyendo
Por Xavier Antich (LA VANGUARDIA, 24/08/09):
Hay deportes que se las tienen con la duración, y otros que se la juegan contra el tiempo y el espacio. Los primeros son deportes de resistencia y, en su máxima expresión, de elaboración refinada y de fuerza desplegada, a veces, hasta la extenuación. En ellos, prima la mirada a larga distancia, la estrategia, el cálculo y, cuando se tercia, la previsión geométrica de las formas. La duración, en ocasiones, permite incluso la belleza del ornamento, los destellos fugaces y gratuitos, la ingeniería orgánica de una totalidad compuesta de elementos heterogéneos. Y, sobre todo,… Seguir leyendo
By Mark Lawson, a Guardian columnist and feature writer and theatre critic for the Tablet (THE GUARDIAN, 20/08/09):
The doubts over the world women’s 800m champion Caster Semenya’s gender extends a fraught August for two of the sports most associated with amateur idealism. As rugby deals with the allegation that coaches may have deliberately cut players to justify substitutions, is one of the world’s quickest women also gaining an unfair advantage?
There is a long history of innuendo in athletics: several eastern European women in the lifting and throwing events came under scrutiny, and the late comedian Bernard Manning used… Seguir leyendo
By Gary Lineker, a retired English international football striker and a sports broadcaster for the BBC and Eredivisie Live (THE TIMES, 01/08/09):
Playing for Bobby Robson was a privilege. I will always think of it that way. He had a great understanding and knowledge of football, coupled with great passion. You only have to look at his career record to see a story of remarkable success.
My memories of Bobby are totally bound up with memories of England, and of the World Cup in particular. For any player, or manager, it is the pinnacle of your career.
In the 1986… Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Goytisolo, escritor (EL PAÍS, 24/07/09):
No soy lo que se dice un aficionado al fútbol. A lo largo de mi vida he puesto tan sólo tres veces los pies en un campo. La primera, a comienzos de los años cuarenta del pasado siglo en el de Las Corts, adonde me llevó consigo mi hermano mayor: el partido no me interesó, pero aproveché mi presencia en el lugar para memorizar -en aquellos tiempos de niño memorión recitaba de carrerilla tanto los establecimientos coloniales franceses en la India como los volcanes andinos de Ecuador-, el nombre de los jugadores del… Seguir leyendo