When we look at people in other professions (this includes sport), and see the way they think and behave, and take decisions, we feel we have the moral right to judge them based on what we would have done, or how we would have thought, or what decisions we would have taken. And that is so wrong...because how in the world do we know what the demands of their professions are? their compulsions? their feelings about the situation they are confronted with? their position in their organization/society/family? We cannot know how their actions/decisions are perceived in the context of their country? their expectations vis-a-vis the society they live in, and their perceptions of the expectations their society has of them?
Basic respect is the only answer...