Case Analysis: 20 Badass Athletes Who Played Through Serious Injuries

What is the Physical Price for Athletics? What all does it take to become a gold medal Olympic champion? In the summer Olympics of 1996, gymnast Kerri Strug learned the hard way. As Kerri landed from a vault she snapped her ankle, but did her coach Bela Karolyi have her seek medical attention then? As I searched for my article, five articles titled similar to “20 Badass Athletes Who Played Through Serious Injuries” appeared in just the first two search pages. These webpages set the example for young children that playing with pain and injury is part of that what makes athletes great. What will stop the little leaguer from playing with a sprained ankle, or the young gymnast to ignore a stress fracture if part of the process of competition is …show more content…
The first step is to describe the moral problem in detail. The moral problem is that Bela Karolyi’s athlete is injured in an Olympic event, if she vaults again she will become a gold medalist but she will further injure herself. If she does not vault again, the USA will still win against Russia and Romania, but Karolyi will not have another gold medalist gymnast champion. The next step is to determine the moral values that an Olympic coach should have. these moral values include reliability, sincerity, diligence, empathy, and acceptance. The next step is to determine how a person with these moral values would act. If Karolyi had empathy, he would accept that Kerri should not vault and injure herself more and that he would not make another gold medalist champion in this case. If the coach had reliability and sincerity, he would be honest with his athlete and weigh the pros and cons of the situation with her instead of telling her what to do. Based on these options the coach should choose the engage in the action of a morally sound person and let her make her own informed decision instead of telling her what to