This is all I could find: [video=youtube;tKIken2jQIE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKIken2jQIE[/video]
Could Freeland be our Pau ? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ol...ens-basketball-as-Spain-win-by-one-point.html
Getting doubled up in any international competition when you managed to score over 70 is just flat out ridiculous.
Perception is a funny thing. Russian gymnasts wept in sadness over winning the silver medal. Mexican synchronized divers hugged each other and jumped for joy over winning the silver medal.
The gymnasts seem a little like divas.... Jordyn Wieber crying because she didn't make the all-around. Komova crying because she got the silver. You don't see that kind of attitude from the swimmers. They're all happy for each other. They congratulate each other. You don't see that from the gymnasts.
They are a bit much. But on the other hand for the most part they are just a bunch of high school girls who have dedicated their whole lives for this one moment. The swimmers, other than Missy, are older, more mature, more battle tested, and could come back in 4 years. This is pretty much it for the gymnasts.
Yeah, I understand that, and I can also understand being upset. I wouldn't expect them to be happy that they lost, or that they didn't make the all-around. I just think they should save that shit for when they get off the floor. Balling like a little girl in front of your teammates and the entire world because you didn't qualify for the all-around makes you look like a poor sport.
Well, a lot of them are "little girls". Not in years, 16 or 17 is choronologically a young woman. But as was documented in the book Little Girls in Pretty Boxes they are kept immature physically (if they menstruate they are told they need to train harder and/or eat less to stop their periods) and kept isolated in a way that prevents normal social development. But it is largely perception - if you expect to win gold, you cry when you win silver. In diving, everyone knew the Chinese were going to win gold, so they were all competing for silver and bronze, and therefore the silver medal winners celebrated. But I just can't see that Olympic silver or bronze, or hell making an Olympic team at all, is something to be sad about. BTW, the first ever Saudi Arabian female Olympian lost in the qualification round, but her being there was still in a small way a victory. Now every country has women athletes. Saudi Arabia was the last.
Who cares how these athletes release their emotions. For the gymnists, especially the Russians, they have the whole weight of their nation on their young shoulders. They have trained and sacraficed more than we probably can understand for this one moment in time . . . and this moment in time is to go out their and do double flipping twisty things while sticking the landing on some 4 inch bar. If they lose a competition they and their nation expected to win, crying is not such a strange way to release emotion. Phelps screams at the top of his lungs when he wins, others get pissed off when they lose . . . the Russian gymnists and the arguably top gymnist in the world cry when they don't succeed. An emotional cry after years of dedication and sacrafice . . . I don't see divas, I see ultra competitive athletes.
