Because the more I thought about it the angrier I got.
Figure Skater Sasha Cohen won a silver medal last night.
And all the headlines can say is she didn't win the gold. All the photos of her show her falling during last nights competition. In the American Mass Media she is portrayed as a failure and in the eyes of most Americans she is now seen as a failure. What is wrong with winning a silver medal?
I think the message this sends to people, and little girls in particular, is why bother doing your best when apparently doing your best isn't good enough?
If you don't see my point then tell me this... where is your silver medal?
I didn't think so.
posted by kris @ 9:45 AM
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If I may say - a silver is an incredible achievement....and i too am sick of the media hyping one star or sport over another and making mountains out of molehills all over the place. Somehow skiing and snowboarding have become THE event when 10 to 20 years ago all you ever heard of was figureskating all day every day. Ever since we beat Russia in men's hockey, I haven't seen a single game highlight yet and what I have heard of is the NOVELTY that the women's hockey is doing o.k.....novelty being said because it feels like a sympathy showing, like "o how cute girls who can play hockey." - please! These women work every bit as hard as all the other athletes. It isn't cute it is great. Sorry for the rant, but it just irks me the way olympics gets televised and watered down by our great teacher the t.v. Somehow curling (and sorry to those of you who love the sport) is so finely tuned into american culture....how is it different than marbles? You spend all you life trying to accurately speed time a precision throw? I though the olympics was about building mind and body, not hand eye coordination. When do we get the frisbee toss through the hoolahoop olympics or the ping pong ball into the fishbowl to win a gold? And lastly - and I am sorry if htis offends chris....but what the hell is up with winning gold or silver or any medal when you fall in ice skating? if all the competitors fall and the last one just skates around in a circle...they get gold...they didn;t fall....they prove they can stand on skates better than the rest. and i hate the crap about how difficult the routine was...if you can;t pull it off....you LOSE! Try for an easier routine you can handle....I want to join and tell them i am doing a quintuple lutze into a forty foot swan dive followed by an arial acrobatic mvoe never seen before where I will leap over all the judges, fly into space and land on my tippy toe...and when i skaet out there and fall on my ass I want a gold for falling the 5 feet onto my ass because of difficulty rating for my routine. F that sh*t. Your routine is what you can handle...if you can;t, you lied and you failed...sorry, end of story. It is amazing she won silver and she is an incredible athlete...the way they judge she deserves every applause and congratulations out there and i would not hesitate to complement her on her amazing abilities all day long. I just hate the judging and what we now deem as worthy of medals overall for skating and hot dogging and most sports where style is a part of the judgement.
taht is all I wanted to say on that :)
-love you all, miss you all, hope to see you soon.
Wow.
I seem to have struck a nerve.
...at least Chip's nerve!
We are a nation of winners....WINNERS, YOU HEAR ME?!?! SECOND PLACE IS THE FIRST LOSER!!!!!
...tell me you've never heard any of that before?....it's the American way.
Just sit back, watch it on TV, and you too can pretend you know ALL ABOUT IT. You're an instant expert who will expect nothing but the best from everyone......except yourself.
There's only ONE person in the world who can say she wasn't good enough, and that's the girl that won the gold.
For heaven's sake, people. When did a silver become a failure?
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