olympics paris 2024 by geoff lowe https://t.co/ZXcFDyaoRT
Roger Federer on how art can be a byproduct of a commitment to a different goal:
"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war."
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Poi
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Let the games begin!🏅Sending love and luck to all competitors.
- Celine xx…
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‘the art of the racquet the most appropriate sport for the man of letters’.