I respectfully disagree with your viewpoint, although I could be over reacting. I don’t think that it had any place during Olympic games. If it was a league championship or something like that, then fine, but this is the Olympics and best behavior is supposed to have priority, especially from the host country.
I don't drink and I don't smoke, but I have a problem with people saying this isn't "best behavior". They are athletes, not saints. If they have a beer and a smoke to celebrate their victory, it's not offensive. How can it be? Drinking and smoking are (outside the U.S.) universally common methods of relaxation and celebration.
This is an issue because some in the press just need a negative to lead a story with. It's the old journalistic canard "if it bleeds, it leads". This is a complete fabrication of shock and dismay.
Want a story on shocking behavior at the Olympics? Investigate the bribery and payoffs that is rife among the members of the IOC. That is the scandal.
By the time all this started the medals had been handed out and the team pictures taken, TV coverage had ended and most folks had left the arena.
>If it was a league championship or something like that, then fine, but this is the Olympics and best behavior is supposed to have priority, especially from the host country.
But look, they’re not DOING anything remotely disruptive. Is celebration not a best-behavior type thing, or by best-behavior do you mean ‘formal’?