Have you had enough of the way some whiny brats have behaved during the Olympic trials, as well as other professional sporting events? I have. If I were in charge, they would be disqualified from future participation – period.
Now we will have a whole new set of gripes coming our way as they are going to start paying NCAA players which will add to the quagmire. Agents are smelling blood in the water.
We pay dearly to watch and emmesh ourselves in sports and don’t need your doping, ill-informed whining or blatant activism on our dime. You’re ruining sports. An avid sports fan all my life, I now only watch golf and as explained before, Green Bay Packer games. My friends say the same thing – except they oddly don’t agree with me on the Packers.
If athletes find this country so offensive, go represent a country where life is better. Quit stealing everybody else’s thunder with your gripes and misbehavior. You’re making tons of money. If nothing else, recall the famous words of Michael Jordan, “Republicans buy tennis shoes too.” That was a diplomatic way to say shut up.
The media loves to broadcast this stuff, upsetting people, rather than reporting the real story. For one example, instead of focusing on a malcontent who placed third in the women’s hammer throw, why not ignore her and instead report on the winner, DeAnna Price? She set an American record with a throw of 263’5”. That’s nearly the length of a football field, folks! (Am I the only one who didn’t know there was such thing as a women’s hammer throw competition?)
Kudos to the International Olympic Committee for showing some spine publicly upholding Rule 50 for the upcoming games in Tokyo. The rule states, “No kind of demonstration or political, religious, or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic site, venue, or other area.”
And speaking of racial propaganda, there is a new rot growing within public education called critical race theory (CRT). It wasn’t enough the National Education Association totally wasted a year of our kids’ education over China bug anxieties, they now fully support CRT – parents be damned.
If you have school-aged children, I urge you get involved with your local school board to prevent children from being indoctrinated into this Marxist platform. Any teacher willfully pushing this rot needs to be ostracized immediately.
Alan N. Webber
Cave Creek
