Comments on: Sunday’s Olympic Gold Hotties

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By: Peter Hughes

Peter Hughes — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:49:48 +0000

#14 – He’s Outside the Tent and it’s raining….

By: Outside The Tent

Outside The Tent — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:53:24 +0000

[...] The sublimely ridiculous Bruce Carroll, a/k/a The Gay Patriot Idiot, took some time off from his school-girlish fawnings over male “Olympic hotties” yesterday to alert us to a “shocking mirror image” of the Jeff Gannon business. One wonders whether Bruce looks in the same mirror that the rest of us do. [...]

By: Peter Hughes

Peter Hughes — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:07:25 +0000

Oh, and #10, I fully agree with you. Give me Summer Olympics any day – men’s gymnastics, men’s water polo, men’s diving, men’s swimming…

Let the games begin!

Regards,
Peter Hughes

By: Peter Hughes

Peter Hughes — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:42:10 +0000

The media will fall all over themselves in self-congratulation of this guy Davis’ feat just like they rose to the so-called defense of Philly QB Donovan McNabb after Rush Limbaugh correctly pointed out that the media wanted a black quarterback to succeed. He’s the latest “liberal feel-good story” to come out of Turin.

And put me in the camp that says fie on hyphenated Americans. We may be a melting pot, but some of us are still getting burned by PC run amok.

Regards,
Peter Hughes

By: Jack Allen

Jack Allen — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:04:07 +0000

BTW, Carl, I’m with you on Bode Miller’s behavior. I’m not a prude, and I do my share of social drinking. But an athlete is a role model — whether he wants to or not — especially when he takes big bucks to be a corporate spokesman. Young athletes weren’t getting a good message from Miller when he’s pictured, while still in competition at the Olympics, looking intoxicated, with a beer in one hand and a Playboy Playmate in the other. Until he leaves Turin he ought to focus less on booze and babes and more on skiing. I sure don’t care anymore whether he wins a medal.

By: Jack Allen

Jack Allen — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:53:14 +0000

Bruce, do you really prefer the winter games to men’s swimming and diving during the summer games?

(Shani Davis didn’t need to be so rude to the NBC reporter trying to interview him after his gold medal performance. I felt sorry for her. If he didn’t want to be interviewed he should have told NBC before the camera was turned on.)

I get so tired of political correctness. NBC is showing the medal ceremony for Shani Davis. Bob Costas referred to him as the first African-American to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics and silver medalist Joey Cheek as “his fellow American”. If Davis is an African-American, isn’t Joey Cheek properly called a European-American?! I think it’s time to forget the damn hyphen and call Americans Americans.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:03:15 +0000

Uh, am I missing something here? Shani Davis might well be the first “African-American” man to claim an individual gold medal in the Winter Olympics, but more appropriately, he was the first BLACK MAN to achieve this — regardless of nationality. Using PC terms like “African-American” undercut his achievement. He wasn’t the first black man in this country to win the gold….he was the first black man IN THE WORLD to do so.

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:34:57 +0000

-be remembered for winning a spot on the 4-man U.S. speed skating TEAM and then deciding to pull out because he’d rather focus on his pursuit of individual glory.-

Wasn’t he asked to be on this team like a day before the event? They only asked him because they thought they couldn’t win without him. The events are mainly individual, so I can see why he chose to take the individual over the team. It’s not like this was hockey or something else known as a big team sport. He never seems to have been that close to his team anyway.

-Carl…. did you mean that Bode was hitting all the bars “ON” the slopes, or hitting all the bars “BEFORE” the slopes? -

I meant either, but his going around boozing before the events bothered me more.

By: ralph

ralph — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:33:51 +0000

glisteny – i could wrong but i think bruce was taking a bigger swipe at bryant. As to celebrating first, it is important – it lets others know it can be done. like it or not, the images children see resonate. if you never see or hear of someone like you succeeding, there is a tendency to think it is not possible.

i’ve no idea how skaters get team appts in skating, but the press, i’ve read, indicates that shani doesn’t do the team stuff. i can think of a number of reasons why he wouldn’t do the team stuff and all quite legit. but more importantly, if u think u were f-ed over b/c he single-handedly “deprived” u of a country gold u got bigger issues. i don’t suppose u consider that even w/ his presence a gold is not assured. prime example, track relays, the 4 fastest sprinters don’t guarantee a medal.

By: just me

just me — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:18:04 +0000

But Shani wasn’t skating for a spot in the four man pusuit, he was skating for a spot on the 1000 and 1500 meter races, and he managed to do both. He has set world records in both (although I think Hedrick broke the 1500 record).

One thing I like about Davis is that when he was a kid, and went to the ice rink to skate short track (where he also excels, and he could have competed in the Olympics in both but opted to focus on long track) his peers made fun of him, because he wasn’t playing in one of their “approved” sports for an inner city youth.

Was he selfish for not competing in the pursuit? Possibly, but that shouldn’t diminish what he has accomplished.

As for the Gumbel issue-most winter athletes come for Northern climes and mostly rural areas. There just aren’t many African Americans living in rural Maine, NH, Minnesota, or Alaska.

I suspect if they developed an interest and had opportunity, African Americans could and would compete just like they do in other sports. I think a good bit of it is where a person’s passion is. In Canada they are passionate about curling-and I still don’t even know what that sport is supposed to be about, or why anyone would want to do it.

By: glisteny

glisteny — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:53:32 +0000

“Big props”??? You’re kidding, right? This post comes across as very bizarre and entirely misplaced on this site, as if it could’ve been written by a leftist advocate of Affirmative Action more interested in the end rather than in the means. GP, I didn’t realize you were so interested in emphasising the “hypen” instead of the much more important “American” part and in counting people like they were beans according to which demographic group they happen to fall into. What’s next…a head count of medal winners according to who’s gay, tall, brown eyed, bald, a single parent, over 30, etc., etc.? Seems like you’re moving backwards, to me.

His status as the first black American to win a gold in winter Olympic history notwitstanding, this Shani character will and should mostly be remembered for winning a spot on the 4-man U.S. speed skating TEAM and then deciding to pull out because he’d rather focus on his pursuit of individual glory. Selfish? To say the least. Not the kind of “American” who should’ve been given a spot on the TEAM to start with and I frankly don’t understand why you’re so quick to praise him, Bruce. Is it OK for a black athlete to F*** over his teammates – and his country, even – just because he’s black? He won’t get a free pass from me just because of his skin color.

The real question should be whether leaving your 3 fellow TEAM members and countrymen hanging consistent with the concept of sportsmanship. And of course it isn’t. That Gold hanging around your neck looks pretty tarnished to me, Shani, and hopefully there’ll always be an asterisk by your name whenever it appears in print. And moreover, hopefully you won’t engage in any further weak justifications for bad behavior just because of the perp’s skin color.

By: ralph

ralph — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:18:28 +0000

okay, count me in the Bryant Gumbel camp – i rarely watch the winter olympics, they simply hold no appeal as they were not sports i was exposed to as a ute. i would disagree on bryant that these are not athletes and to say that they are not the best is a bit unfair, in that, a number of competing athletes could theoretically have more potential and ability than any of the so called champions, but if they don’t practice they will not be recognized as the best, Gabe J and the Goat come to mind. Where Bryant’s argument has some merit, MLB before intergration, but I digress.

That said, I always thought we African-Americans given the chance should rule the speed skating. By the way, unless were diluted in the past 4 years, the 2002 Census report has us at 13%. So Shani is essentially par.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:17:06 +0000

Carl…. did you mean that Bode was hitting all the bars “ON” the slopes, or hitting all the bars “BEFORE” the slopes? Good call either way!

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:14:41 +0000

Some might say that what Davis did was selfish, but I think that doing things like hitting all the bars and then blowing all of your performances (a la Miller) or losing a gold medal because you want to do a cute trick (whatever that girl’s name was) is much more selfish, because so much money and time has been spent on making you into a star, and then you go out there and you make a fool of yourself.

This is an important lesson that the media can’t make stars, stars make themselves. I don’t know if anyone went into these Olympics expecting Davis to be so important. I doubt NBC did.

By: Julie the Jarhead

Julie the Jarhead — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:06:19 +0000

There is no “I” in “team,” but there is one in “Shani.”