Both are Olympians in their own right

So the Olympic Games are over and we in Britain can feel very proud of our young athletes. It obviously has a knock effect to to our own sense of achievement, admittedly fostered by people we never met or known, other than as an image on the TV but never the less we feel we have a common heritage. 

Of course sport is a business. It's backers want their logo or their product mentioned as often as possible. The athletes are professional, they train all year round, 8 hours a day, "it's their job". It's no longer a something you do in your spare time, it's certainly not a hobby.
If you come from the era of amateur athletics when to compete you had to hold down a 9 till 5 job and still find time to train, travel and compete in far off events. The expense was to your own account and very strict rules governed any financial transaction. There was no sponsorship, no high altitude training camps, only the soggy streets of which ever city you were born in.
Is it any wonder that our athletes are stellar given that they receive so much help and are able to hone their talents uninterrupted by the issues that trouble you and I every day of the week. Like footballers they are removed from the lives of ordinary people and whilst we plod along tipping our £2.50 into the lottery system it's the athletes who glean the headlines, especially at Olympic time, headlines we can emulate only if we rob a bank or commit a murder.
One of the issues at Rio has been the dis-proportionality of the Olympic environment with all its glitz, with the reality of people living only a few hundred metres away.

The extreme example is the "favela" a mound of poverty rising from the same slopes that make the skyline of Rio so famous. Living cheek by jowl, much as the shacks of Cape Flats compete for the view of Table Mountain, these tips are human flotsam, the discarded unwanted residue of a capitalistic system of governance which continues to repeat what seems mankind's default position, and is another example of  "man's inhumanity to man".

That we can disconnect the drama played out through the various sporting activities with the drama of living in a favela where, if the insanitary conditions or the lack of proper nutrition don't kill you the crime will.
Does the will to win a medal compare with the will to stay alive and are the winners in either camp, both Olympians in their own right.