I respect them because they worked so hard for something.
Ok, but plenty of people do.
It’s amazing to work at something every day and accomplish your goals ( mainly being the best in the world at something).
Now you are being more accurate. People don’t respect olympians for working hard–they respect them for being the best. Well, they aren’t the best at anything valuable.
Honestly most goyim when they think of Jews think of chassidim with long payos and and nickers. ( which is fine) BUT maybe if they think they can relate to us a little better it will lead to less anti-semitism. Who knows.
Of course. If we’d just be more like them, we could all get along. We’ve been trying that on and off for about 3000 years I think. It hasn’t worked too well.