This piece refers to the symbolism of the Olympic Games, in which game and sport are put at the service of a mentality that links success directly to physical capabilities. It replaces the traditional Olympic Games slogan “Faster, Higher, Stronger” with “Weaker, Lower, Slower” referring to a letter written by Subcomandante Marcos that mentions how the Zapatista struggle is concerned with “the weaker, the slower, those at the bottom.”

The photograph that serves as this piece’s back- ground shows the athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen winning her third gold medal at the London 1948 Olympic Games. At the time, Blankers-Koen was expecting her third child, and she was criticized in the press for her age and for “not attending to her duties as a mother and wife.” She has since become an activist for women’s equal participation in sports.

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