Canadians are sore losers.

[RayThom]

All this USA winning is making me sick. It must be the Trump effect.

[Burning Petard]

And that Men's USA team above is getting a good look at their medals, which state "Women's Curling" At least they're smiling.

snailgate.

[Scooter]

Americans did quite well in sports associated with drinking (curling) and smoking marijuana (snowboarding). But their total of 23 medals was their worst performance since 1998.

[rubato]

Canada is trying to catch up with the drinking and car theft events.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2761 ... yeongchang

Canadian Athlete, Manager Arrested for Car Theft, Driving Drunk in Pyeongchang

Oh Can-a-da
we steal a car for thee!



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rubato

[Gob]

Sportsmanship can be conceptualized as an enduring and relatively stable characteristic or disposition such that individuals differ in the way they are generally expected to behave in sport situations. In general, sportsmanship refers to virtues such as fairness, self-control, courage, and persistence, and has been associated with interpersonal concepts of treating others and being treated fairly, maintaining self-control if dealing with others, and respect for both authority and opponents. Sportsmanship is also looked at as being the way one reacts to a sport/game/player.

A concept totally alien to rubato.....

[Jarlaxle]

So...is the big kerfuffle over yet?

[Lord Jim]

Is this the worst we got on Canada? Let’s not forget Ryan Lochte; USA is still #1 in Olympian assholery!

Make an issue of Russian doping, then. Write stories about why, after the IOC bent over backwards trying to accomodate Russian athletes who MIGHT have been dope-free, two Russian athletes still failed drug tests, and why that didn't immediately result in EVERY Russian athlete being sent packing and EVERY Russian medal won at these Games being revoked because there is no way of knowing if systemic doping is continuing.

And let's not forget Tonya Harding, the biggest Olympic asshole of them all...

Lochte was suspended for 10 months, (in my opinion that was insufficient; he should have been stripped of the medal he won in 2016, and been barred from future Olympic competition) and the IOC should have had the balls to bar the Russian team from competition in these Olympics en masse.

Okay, now that I've addressed the whataboutisms...

Obviously, what Larocque did is in no way shape or form remotely on a par with those cases (or other whataboutisms that could be cited) and so far as I know, no sanctions at all have been seriously suggested for her.

But none of that makes what she did okay, or unworthy of criticism.

the press coverage it continues to get, you would think it was absolutely the most contemptible act to ever occur in connection with the Olympics.

I dispute the contention that the press coverage on this has been excessive. (At least in the US; it's understandable that there may be more coverage in Canada, just as there would be here if a US Olympic athlete had done this.)

As I mentioned, despite the fact that I watched the medal ceremonies live (and about a half hour of interviews and commentary following the game) and followed numerous reports on cable news channels about the game the next day, the very first time I heard about it was when I read about it in this thread.

That is not indicative to me of anyone being "nailed to the cross" (at least in the US media)

BTW, when I did find out about it and started to check out the story on line, the overwhelming number of criticisms of her I saw came from other Canadians...(good for them)

deserves to be labelled an inexcusable brat.

Well, here's what I actually said :

That was just a moment of inexcusably poor sportsmanship and childish, spoiled brat behavior on her part.

Saying that a person had a "moment" of inexcusably spoiled brat "behavior" is obviously not the same thing as saying that someone is "an inexcusable brat" ...

I have no reason to believe that the moment she had was definitional of her overall character, nor did I say or imply that it was.

That being said, I stand by the "inexcusable " part (which is of course different from saying that it was "unforgivable") in that there was no legitimate excuse for what she did, (an explanation, but not an excuse).

Being overwhelmed by the defeat was not a legitimate excuse, (as I pointed out earlier, none of her teammates felt compelled to do what she did or anything similar) nor was there anything else that happened that might be considered a legitimate excuse...

Such as the game being decided by a controversial ref's call, for example...Despite the game's closeness, ( and the unfortunate system of deciding a tie by "shoot-out") no one has claimed that the game was not won and lost fair and square, by the rules that both teams played under...

The absence of a legitimate excuse for the behavior makes that behavior inexcusable, by definition...

And that's all I'm going to say about this...

(Frankly, I wouldn't have added this to my earlier comments, except that when I'm invited to go fuck myself, my natural inclination is to provide further elaboration... )

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Now, permit to turn to another point about "poor sportsmanship" that rube has inadvertently raised (by providing himself as an example) in this thread...

"Good sportsmanship" makes claims not just on the loser, but on the winner as well...

The loser isn't supposed to be a "sore loser" but the winner, is also expected to be a "gracious winner"...

Rube has provided in this thread some splendid textbook examples of how to engage in poor sportsmanship by failing to be a gracious winner...

[RayThom]

Sonja Henie's tutu!

[rubato]

You have to hand it to the Norweeegians who have the largest total medals in the frozen olympics with 380 followed by the U.S.ians with 305 and "everyone else" trails pretty far behind , Canadia clogs in with a measly pathetic 199, par example (explaining their inferiority complex), and the damned door-cutting, elm-tree killing,windmill loving, dutch only have 130.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_ ... edal_table


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[Scooter]

[rubato]

Poor scooter. You Canadians try SO hard don't you? And you're so damned earnest. But trying just isn't enough is it? And earnest just gets you the 'nicest loser' award.

Canada GDP = 1.53 T
California GDP = 2.45 T

Better go back to being polite and let Football players be sore losers. Ok?


yrs,
rubato

[Beer Sponge]

https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news ... nal-tally/

I’m sorry, I missed where the USA beat Canada’s medal count? Would you point out where you see it on the table ruby? Every time I look, Canada finished third, and the USA fourth. Good effort though. Maybe in four years?

[RayThom]

Everyone is catching curling fever:
http://babylonbee.com/news/local-pastor ... ig-sunday/

[Joe Guy]

[Burning Petard]

Bloom County comic strip now has an excellent commentary (according to many in the USA) on the fine art of Curling.

http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county

Me, I abhor the thing Olympics has morphed into. I don't care much for any spectator sports.

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