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From Sharapova, Meldonium, and why David Foster-Wallace is #BadForTennis by hypotemuse
Fuelled by a generous and regularly scheduled helping of overwrought thinkpieces ascribing “microcosm of life”, “religious experience” (yes DFW has a lot to answer for) and all manner of other metaphysical qualities to sport, our sense of the spectacle — and of our place in it — has become like a latter-day Hollywood pastiche: bloated, indulgent and self-congratulatory.