Sport Is For Losers.

People like those above did not medal in the Industrial Revolution competition. Guys who looked like this

took home the gold. And the silver and the bronze.

Danny Boyle did a rare thing in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics: he celebrated losers. And why shouldn't losers be celebrated?  If there were no losers there would be no winners. We're indispensable! Even winners lose: the best professional baseball teams in America lose 40% of their games. They compete, Olympians compete. They hate to lose. But they do:  "you win some, you lose some." We all compete in life: for gold, for love, success, power, for survival. We all win some and lose some in life. And death always takes the gold medal from survival.

We are all losers, ultimately. In celebrating losers, Danny Boyle celebrated all of us, our common humanity: