They must be the whiniest, easily scared, group that I have ever seen. Marie Jose-Perec got spooked out of the Olympics. The American OC wants to get CJ Walker’s credentials back because they think that Marion Jones would be useless without her drug-taking husband.
Now, I see this 200 meter final ‘coverage’ on Channel 4. Cappel of the US was leaning forward, then back, right before the start, but no false start was called. He wound up in last place. Now we hear perennial whiner Michael Johnson saying that there should have been a false start called. If you have to make a false start, fly. Get a 50-meter lead, and force the officials to call a false start. Don’t go rocking back and forth on the starting blocks and wait for the second shot. Make the starter pistol go off a second time.
The worst part about this is that all of the NBC reporters, including Bob Costas, who should have known better, joined in the whining about Cappel’s bad start. Stop making excuses for them, the athletes who take unknown supplements, the poor performances, and the like. I wish there were ECW fans over at the stadium where Cappel performed like that. They would have shouted repeatedly, “You fucked up!” And I would have agreed with them.
They said the rules called for the runners not to move once they were in their set positions. If that’s true, maybe a false start should have been called. It didn’t come off as whining to me, and I loved Bob Costas’s line about the Greek runner who won.
But they did say something during the race that I thought was contemptible. After Cappel’s horrendous start, and with him trailing the field with 50 meters left, the announcer said “And here comes Cappel!” He still finished last. That announcer was so prepared to call the race a certain way that he wasn’t paying any attention to what was actually happening.
Everybody fucks up, even me and thee. It a part of living and the winner of anything usually is the one who manages to fuck up the least. These athelets know it better than most.
I don’t think there would be nearly as much whining going on amongst the losers if some asshole didn’t stick a microphone in their faces and prompt them.
I really don’t care at all which one got busted for dope long ago and far away. It has nothing to do with Sidney.
2000 Olympics = Crock of Shit, thank you NBC.
I still think that Romanian gymnast got screwed to the point of anal rape by the committie.