They need to put God up on the podium and give him the Gold then.

It IS hard to take, isn’t it?

Humans are prone to curiosity which leads to study which leads to frustration when the answers are not readily available.
So the exercise of jumping to conclusions is engaged. Thus, they assume anything out of their control is gods plan. Anything within their control (like - diet, practice, mental preparedness etc) well those are possible because god made me that way.

You can not argue with people who are convinced there is a supernatural puppeteer pulling all the strings.

Well, regardless of how we would like to see it the reality is this is a religious world.

Sounds like a pretty pathetic god. Forces a person to do years of training and competition making them a world class athlete and then shows up at the Olympics to take credit for the work done. Sounds totally worthless if you ask me.

Well, most athletes are superstitious. Either they believe in God, enter the pitch/track with the right foot or do many things similar. The funny thing is, whenever they have to lose, these things never stopped it from happening and they keep doing them anyway.

Ever read the Exodus chapters about the ark of the covenant and the clothes the priests have to wear. God loves him some bling.

" I would like to thank the airline all the people in the aviation industry, and all the scientists and engineers who developed aircraft. So that I could fly quickly and cheaply to Japan, just to take part in these games." Honest speech yes. But it is never going to happen.

My favorite one was when I was a Mormon and the first Sunday of every month was fast and testimony meeting. All member were supposed to skip two meals and the meeting was an opportunity to tell the congregation how much you believed the Mormon church was true. Someone every so often would tell of their spiritual experience of finding lost car keys after saying a prayer to find them. Now, if winning medals at the Olympics is bad, how much more trivial is finding your car keys?

As for these Olympic medals, how dismissive is it to credit an unseen being and ignore the years of hard work, sacrifices, and dedication to training to reach the level of expertise enabling this and all the other athletes to get to participate in the Olympics much less to achieve a medal for all your efforts?