The Rev. Franklin Graham recently posted a video to social media of his father, the famed Rev. Billy Graham, commenting on a study about how many athletes would trade years of their life in return for winning a gold medal at the Olympics.
Franklin Graham posted the video to his Twitter account on Saturday, garnering as of Monday morning nearly 42,000 views.
In the video, footage is shown of Billy Graham speaking at a past evangelistic crusade event. He mentioned a survey of nearly 200 professional athletes about their willingness to shorten their life to get a gold medal.
“The sports researcher Robert Goldman polled 198 world class athletes, asking: ‘would you take a pill, that would guarantee a gold medal even if you knew that it would kill you in five years?'” noted Billy Graham.
“Do you know what the answer was? More than half said they’d do it. In other words, they want athletic success and they want that gold medal more than they want life itself.”
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