Somehow the watching of other people sporting became a very important part of our lives, so important that sport became big business. People spend a great deal of time (and some a great deal of money) to watching soccer, tennis, baseball, cycling or whatever and sportsmen became heroes. A strange development that became an even stranger vicious circle. In order to get more attraction and more money, sport has to become bigger and bigger. Ridiculous amounts of money is paid for players, salaries are absurd and the money that TV-stations are willing to pay for the rights to broadcasts the plays is beyond belief. Especially in the case of soccer there is an unnatural rivalry between ‘supporters; of different teams who think that they can demolish entire cities to ‘make their point’. What irritates me most, is that even the main news makes time to tell us all about the world of sports, as if there is no more important news to give. The last week this has reached its top. I don’t care about the cyclists in France and if I did, I would watch the ‘sports news’, so why do I have to see half of the news dedicated to the Tour de France? Things get worse. Because the runners have to perform, they look for ways to do this better. This results in the use of all kinds of ‘medications’. Then runners have to sign that they are not into that, well that is news! Some runners of course can’t resist the temptation and now the news is all about the “scandals”, as if the average news-watcher is interested in that. I am not the least bit interested in it all, but I wouldn’t know how to learn about things that are more important without having hear all about ‘sports’. What is it that fascinates people so much in it and why do they keep being fascinated when it all turns out to be a farce? Isn’t there something better to do?