WELCOME September 17, 2001 Issue

We can all be winners

The Editors

In almost every sport, at least some people are asking, with greater urgency, "Is winning really everything?"

A 17-year-old Canadian competitor in one of the equestrian events in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, Christilot Hanson-Boylen, gave a great answer: "Yes. Winning is everything ... but winning is what it means to you. It's your own goal, set and achieved."

How starkly this contrasts with the wry social comment in a July 23 New Yorker cartoon depicting an earnest father cautioning his son before he runs onto a Little League baseball field, "Just remember, son, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose unless you want Daddy's love."

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