For my birthday I asked for the book of daily thoughts, Love is the Explanation for Everything. Hidden inside (I didn't know until I was skimming through it), there is a meditation for cyclists.
"The pursuit of sports always reminds us of the ideals of human and Christian virtues, which not only contribute to physical and mental training, but promote and encourage strength and moral and spiritual greatness. Sports are a school for loyalty, courage, tolerance, will power, solidarity, and team spirit. All of these natural virtues are, frequently, the foundation upon which other supernatural virtues are consolidated.
In your lives as professional cyclists and in your family and social responsibilities, do not forget to put into practice that series of small and great acts of self-control, simplicity, honesty and respect for others that are in the arena of sports. Shun all that disloyalty, deceit, and cheating because that degrades your profession and diminished you in the eyes of God."
Speech to the Spanish Cycling Team
June 10, 1985
In researching this statement, I found the John Paul II Foundation for Sport. As always JPII never fails to disappoint.
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