This was the United States National Baton Twirling Championships, a showcase for an enterprise that is part sport, part parade and seems caught between the competitive dreams of its top-level practitioners and its image as halftime entertainment by a smiling co-ed in spangles and a cowboy hat.
"Interacting with front-rank experts across the world, top-level practitioners of new technologies, and rural families is absolute fun".
Practitioners operating at the top level are strongly encouraged to share knowledge, experiences and data (eg, player match and training loads, injury information, individual characteristics) with researchers.
It's a truism that the most openly vicious practitioners of any brand of oppression tend not to be the people at the very top level of privilege, but those in the second-to-last row, desperate for someone at the very bottom that they can feel better than.
Money, after all, controls top level football.
"No one auditions at the top level.
"It starts with the top level.
"Jiang wants him at the top level".
He is still at a top level.
The top level, east side.
