Category: Sports

The Fragility of American Society

Time to Grow a Spine and Stop the Whining

Whaaaaaaaa! Photo courtesy of YouTube.com

It seems like every Olympic cycle some story emerges about an athlete getting his or her feelings hurt because they cannot withstand the criticism for a poor performance.

I am not going to go into full details because, honestly, I do not care about these athletes going to a murderous communist country to compete for the sake of money.

Slalom favorite Mikaela Shiffrin crashed in the early stages of the slalom competition. NBC has been accused of been insensitive towards the skier because they showed her interview in which she appeared to be distraught and very emotional.

What was NBC supposed to do? Accusing the media of the shortcomings of athletes is ridiculous. The media pump these athletes at the behest of the athlete’s publicists, endorsers, and the United States Olympic Committee.

When they do not perform as expected, the world is crumbling, and the media is evil for reporting the facts. The ‘Blue Checkmark’ keyboard warriors and the Twitter fantasy metaverse loons go on their typing sprees, accusing the network of mentally abusing the athlete.

They did the same thing in the 2020 Summer Olympics when gymnast Simone Byles withdrew from events because apparently the pressure was too much to manage. The media then call it how they saw it and the public was outraged.

Athletes, welcome to the real world. A Twitter keyboard warrior went on to say, “Anyone that endures a public disappointment should be given some empathy, respect, and privacy, it’s basic human decency.”

First, she is an athlete, as an athlete she should know that she will not be perfect, and disappointments will come along. By reporting and showing the truth NBC was not disrespectful, and she is a public figure competing in an Olympic event.

Instead of feeling sorry for these athletes, people should encourage them to get off the self-pity wagon and go fight for it. Unfortunately, in this era of victimhood it is easier to encourage whining than fighting to earn something.

I am sure the millions of Americans living in poverty and wondering how they are going to feed their children are not too concerned about Shiffrin’s meltdown.

Our society has become too fragile, too entitled, and too self-absorbed.

Like President Truman once said, ‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.’

The “Wokestralian” Open Down Under

The Australian Open Champion *

Rafael Nadal? ‘I made sure the #1 ranked in the world player was kicked out of the tournament’

The Australian government made a mockery of their country, the pandemic, and the tournament. They used Djokovic as a political pawn, and his vaccination status, as an excuse to keep him out of the tournament and eventually kicking him out of the country.

Still, the country is run like a penal colony and the cases of COVID-19 remain at their highest despite of their vaccination mandates and lockdowns. Spare me the outrage.

Rafael Nadal may have won the Australian Open, but without the #1 ranked player in the world, Novak Djokovic, the victory will be seen by many as a fraud and with a huge asterisk next to it.

The Australian government may have won the ‘Woke War’, but they lost their prestige with it.

When Rory McIlroy Crashes and Burns…

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Rory McIlroy

After getting a break on 17, McIlroy hits an awesome drive down the 18 hole, at the Emirates Golf Club, Majlis Golf Course, on the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic.

In the clubhouse is veteran Richard Bland and golf phenom Viktor Hovland sitting at a comfortable -12 under par and waiting to either, go on a playoff or the airport.

McIlroy was -12 under par with over 260 yards into the par 5. A birdie would have done the trick at best, and at worst, a par would have taken him into a playoff with Bland and Hovland.

Unfortunately for him, none of those two scenarios came to fruition. He bogeyed 18 after spraying his second shot into the water and missing a par putt.

What what was he thinking? Did his caddie, Harry Diamond, told him what was going on? Did he knew all he needed was a birdie to win outright or a par to join the playoff?

In typical McIlroy fashion, he went out in flames. I felt sorry for the guy, after all, I am a golfer and I have played at the Emirates Club many times. I know how difficult is to clear that water, and at over 260 yards is even tougher.

I know the player is responsible for making the shot, but I put a lot of the blame on his caddie. I would have insisted on the layup and dealt with the ass-chewing after the victory champagne.

This was one of the worst decisions I have witnessed. A heartbreaker for sure.

Personally, I think is time for Rory McIlroy to hire a real caddie. I am sure is fun to have your best buddy in your bag, but when millions, and legacy, are on the line, always go with a professional.

At the end, Viktor Hovland raised the trophy by defeating Richard Bland after birding the first playoff hole.

Is The Australian Government Suffering from Foot in The Mouth Disease?

Australia’s Diplomatic Nightmare

#1 Tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic Picture courtesy of Sky Sports

One thing is to hold your citizens hostage and treat them as third-class citizens, but when you treat the #1 ranked tennis player in the world in such a manner, is going to get the world’s attention.

Australia claims Novak Djokovic is facing deportation because despite of having been cleared to enter the country by medical authorities, the Australian Border Forces moved to refuse him entry into the country.

Australia has been making worldwide headlines with their handling of the Covid-19 virus.  Australia has become a floating gulag while the Covid-19 infections have continued to rise even though they have imposed the most restrictive, and draconian, mandates on their population.

With the Australian Open tennis tournament coming up and Djokovic’s opportunity to break the all-time Grand Slam record, the Australian government has decided to engage in a diplomatic spat with Serbia and the millions of Djokovic fans around the world.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, has gone out of his way to sound tough even threatening to put Djokovic “on the first plane home.”

If Morrison thought the world was going to get behind him, he thought wrong. Djokovic is one of the most beloved sport figures in the world, and for the Australian government to treat him this way, over a vaccine exemption, is ludicrous and classless.

I, for one, hope Djokovic packs his bags and leaves as soon as he can. If the Australian people wish to live their lives under those tyrannical conditions, so be it, but the rest of the world won’t.

Who knows, perhaps Australia should become, once again, a penal colony.

The Australian government has definitively put both feet deep inside their diplomatic mouth.

Game, Set, Match, Djokovic!

The Hypocrisy of the United States Government and Olympic Committee

Time to Boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

A shameful institution!

As much as American athletes love to lecture the common folk, they rarely put their money where their mouth is.

Some of them love to hate the United States, badmouth the country about how horrible it is, but they don’t have second thoughts about taking money so they can enjoy international and national competitions at our expense.

I am not surprised one bit. This is the type of society in which we live, the type of United States wokeness and social media have created.

The upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing are a clear example of American hypocrisy. Our government runs their mouth criticizing China, and rightly so, but hasn’t done a thing about the United States position.

Sure, a meaningless diplomatic boycott gives the Biden administration headlines, but it doesn’t affect the outcome. China will still enjoy, and reap, the benefits of having United States athletes participating at the Olympics.

Not only has the United States team been outfitted with Ralph Lauren gear, which is mostly made in, you guessed it, China, but the United States Olympic Committee has remained silent about China and has refused to criticize China’s horrific record on human rights abuses.

The list of abuses is endless. From Uyghur ‘concentration camps’ in Xinyang to the inexplicable disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai and Beijing’s cover up.

The Biden administration has done nothing to hold China accountable, on the contrary, under Joe Biden, the Chinese Communist Party seems to enjoy a level of moral immunity never seen before.

Why hasn’t the United States pulled the plug on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics? Why is the United States rewarding an oppressive regime with the presence and prestige of United States athletes?

The United States Olympic Committee and the Biden administration should be ashamed of themselves.

How dare we claim the moral highroad while at the same time we won’t condemn the Chinese Communist Party human rights abuses?

The government says the athletes should not be punished, is not their fault. Well, these athletes are representing not only our country, but they represent every single one of us.

I don’t approve of a communist regime who starve its people, place people in concentration camps because of their religious beliefs, threaten its neighbors with invasion, and intimidate our country with vile threats.

To say President Carter had more ‘cojones’ than Joe Biden by leading the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics says a lot about our current state of affairs in this country.

The United States needs to lead again. The United States needs to send a clear message to Beijing and completely boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in the name of human rights and what the United States stands for.

I won’t be watching!

Resources:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/search/china/?sort=relevance-desc