 "Yawn...Yawn...So,
what's new?...Schumacher won another race, na?...That happens every other day; that Schumi, I hate him!"
Sport is unpredictable. You
don't know what's going to happen. You don't know who's going to win. So we thought until a handsome man clad in red came along, and conquered the Formula 1 stage like few have. When Michael Schumacher won the Malaysian Grand Prix this Sunday, his second win after the Australian, words like 'perfection' and 'consistency' took a new altitude, and raised themselves to greater heights.
Once in a very long while in sport, there emerges a man - a combination of
scintillating skills and teasing talent - this with physical fitness, mental toughness that makes him 'THE' man in that sport, a man who is miles ahead of his next rival. Tendulkar in cricket, Tiger Woods in golf, Michael Jordan in basketball, Pete Sampras in tennis, not long ago. And, Schumacher in Formula 1.
"To know how fantastic the car is, how great it is to drive. I enjoy what I'm doing and when you have a result like this, you get excited. I love the sport . . . I'll enjoy it for as long as I can," said Schumacher after his first 2004 win at the
Australian Grand Prix.
 The great German driver has millions of fans all over the world who may sit glued to the TV even if he has a comfortable lead. But there is also that class of fans who, like the 'yawner' in the beginning of this article, follows sport only for high-voltage excitement and so may lose interest.
The first axiom of sport is that nobody knows what's going to happen next. If you did, you would rather not watch it at all. The whole fun's gone. The sensation is lost. Predictability is sport's worst enemy.
Then again, predicting that Schumacher will lose an F1 race and that coming true has the same odds as the possibility of sighting Mahatma Gandhi alive.
Srinivasa
Ramanujam
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