Definition af en vinder og eksempler fra sport

I agree with the poets opinion on what a winner is like and what a loser is like. You have to be mentally strong to admit if he or she is wrong or say:”there must be a better way”. But at the same time I think that he or she does look at it a bit square. I mean, you are not a loser just because you for example make promises. A winner can easily make promises too. And a loser can also make commitments and still be a “loser”. But then again, maybe the poet wrote the difference between winner and loser roughly on purpose.

My “Winner(s)”:

I do not admire only one winner. I don’t know if I even admire anyone except my parents, but just because I admire them it doesn’t make them winners. So I am not going to write about one winner, but a couple of winners. In my eyes a winner is not necessarily a person who wins everything. A winner is a person who is mentally strong, who can stand up for themselves and can come back when it gets toughest. For example Lance Armstrong. In 1996 he got testicle-cancer and the doctors said to him that he had 50% chance of dying. But still he came back and became the cyclist who won the Tour de France most times. That is in my opinion the definition of a winner. He was close of dying and still he managed to get back and be the best cyclist in the world. The vital factor in this story is not that he became the best, but that he even came back is admirable. Another person who made a historic comeback was the Italian Paolo Rossi. Paolo Rossi is a former football player who in the seventies and eighties was one of the best strikers in the world. He played in his heydays for both Juventus and AC Milan, but in 1980 he was involved in a famous betting scandal and as a result of this Rossi was disqualified for two years. However, Rossi always claimed to be innocent and be victim of an injustice. Later on one of the men who accused him admitted that the accusations were invented. Rossi returned just in time for the World Cup in 1982. Italian journalists accused him for being in a very poor shape. This claim seemed to be correct, because Italy’s first four matches he played terrible football and almost none of his passes succeeded. But Rossi just fought on. The coach stayed loyal to Rossi and let him start him the pitch again. Against Brazil he scored three beautiful goals and Italy won 3-2. In the semifinal against Poland scored Rossi another two goals, and now were Italy in the final. In the final against Germany, Rossi scored the first of Italy's three goals to win the match 3-1, giving his team their third World Cup. With six goals total, he won the tournament’s “Golden Boot”.