Athletes Behaving Badly: What Happened to America’s Olympians?

Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^ | March 6, 2006 | Charles Colson

[Mr. Silverback]

There was more than enough good to balance out the bad. And for those who were paying attention, Davis was cheering Hedrick on during the 10,000 meters. Apollo Anton Ohno was aclass act, too.

Heck, Warren Sapp has packed more bad sportsmanship into an average NFL season than our whole team exhibited in these games.

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[Mr. Silverback]

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[Skooz]

The Olympics: People I have never heard of doing things I don't care about.

[massgopguy]

The Sweden-Finland Gold Medal game was the best hockey game I've seen in years. They played like national teams. The American team looked like it was back in the old days where Bean Pot rivalries superceded the unity that Herb instilled in Mike Eruzione. Maybe Mike should be the coach next time.

[HostileTerritory]

Mirroring the democratization of winter sports, formerly the preserve of the rich and the locals.

[r9etb]

The American media ... were understandably disgusted

Well, no, the American media were not "disgusted," they fed the flames. The egregious NBC coverage of people like Bode Miller was positively fawning.

[Bommer]

Time to bring back only armatures to the games. The Pros have ruined it!

[Bommer]

amatures

[em2vn]

I think you must have spent too much time watching curling.

[-YYZ-]

Amateurs?

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>we have no one to blame for this sorry display but ourselves.

Baloney!

1) Any American who screws up anywhere gets front page headlines immediately. That's how our media works. The picture the media painted of our Olympic Team was distorted.

2) The team finished 2nd in total medals and absolutely dominated at at least of the venues. It sort of reminded me of the coverage of the last Summer games. The US team won an absolute avalanche of medals only to be ignored because a bunch of stupid NBA thugs got schooled by Puerto Rico in the prelim rounds.

[Obadiah]

Heck, Warren Sapp has packed more bad sportsmanship into an average NFL season than our whole team exhibited in these games.

Ain't that the truth.

[BadAndy]

"The American media and the public were understandably disgusted with the behavior of some of our best and our brightest."

None of these people come close to being our "best and brightest". And BTW, can we please go back to banning pros from the Olympics? It was much better to watch our amateur players struggle against pro-equivalents from commie block nations, than to watch bored old pros who think they are the world's best, get beaten by a bunch of unknowns.

[Mr. Silverback]

The egregious NBC coverage of people like Bode Miller was positively fawning.

Roger that. The Tom Brokaw interview with Miller after he was out of competition...yeesh!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Side note, and clearly not the point of the article, but I like the irony that the CCCP jacket is like the coolest looking thing that Weir weenie wore during the Olympics.

[Mr. Silverback]

Nope, no curling. Most of what I watched was the prime time stuff.

[brownsfan]

"Heck, Warren Sapp has packed more bad sportsmanship into an average NFL season than our whole team exhibited in these games."

Sorry, don't mean to nit pick, but this is one of my pet peeves. Let's find something that's worse, and that justifies what's bad? No. There was much bad behavior. Let it stand on it's own. Then you can say it's ok, or it's not ok, but let's not look for equivalences.

[Mr. Silverback]

I would love to get that guy to read up on what they do to "princessy" (his words) men like himself in Communist countries, including the ol' CCCP. Yeesh.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Amen.

[Designer]

".."princessy" (his words) men like himself.."

Are you refering to Johnny "Weird"?

He was wearing a warm-up jersey from Russia one day.