Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Shame
If anyone else caught the little girl's, errrr we mean women's gymnastics last night, we hope you felt as angry as we did at the television coverage. The analysis and interview questions were heartless and disgusting. Nothing was about how Team USA won the silver medal, it was all about how they LOST the gold. Words like "Devastating" "Choke" "Disastrous" were all they could come up with. Instead of of showing compassion towards the poor girl who fell twice, the interviewer just kept asking the same question, just worded differently, over and over again. "How do you explain what happened when you fell?" How did it feel when your back was on the mat, twice?" "What do you think was going through your teammates minds as you were falling down?" The questioning put the poor girl in tears, and when her teammates came to her aid in the group interview, the bitch reporter tried baiting them into ripping her. We're curious if other countries feel that silver medalists are just losers, like this country does.
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It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
Well said, Ted.
Your biography was one of the best books we've ever read.
In your honor, we're going to walk around with a "big stick" at work tomorrow...literally.
all i know is that the male swimmers are insanely hot.
seriously the interviewing skills poolside or for gymnastics has been terrible... like asking phelps "so tell me more about that high calorie diet" or "whatcha listening to on that ipod".... how about trying WOOHOO you just dominated that world record by 4 seconds. American F*** ya! How about showing some excitement for the gold medals
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