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All respect, Art, but I think that says more about the nature of Mexican Gov't in specific and Representative democracy in general. Naming a race car driver an athelete to please the populace doesn't make him an athelete any more than a crown and an English accent would make me Queen Elizabeth. It's the basic flaw of all democracies; if the majority is composed of baboons, they are still baboons, and being in the majority won't make them anything else.
Words mean things, and that is the problem here. Calling drivers atheletes is, to my mind, changing the definition of the word athelete. Do that enough, and, at length, we will no longer have a word for a person that tests their physical self against others doing the same.
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