USA Hockey’s Gold Redeemed the Otherwise Awful Olympics
Derek Hunter
That gold medal for Team USA in hockey, both for the men and the women, redeemed for me what was otherwise a boring, selfish and awful Olympics. The reason? The wokesters feeling the need to unburden themselves of their political thoughts and opinions, at the prodding of the left-wing press, and whine about the country were just more than I cared to subject myself to. I couldn’t bring myself to care about anyone under the Stars and Stripes if they were more interested in wiping themselves with the flag than they were proud to be competing under it.
These Olympics started off horribly, with spoiled skiers and figure skaters taking their moment in the sun to claim victimhood status and whine about things happening in the country. I blame the media for asking these people for their opinions on things knowing they didn’t spend a lot of time in school and aren’t deep thinkers about anything beyond their sport.
I don’t blame them – to be a world class athlete you not only must sacrifice play time for practice time, you also have to sacrifice a lot of education time and real world experience time. You’re unlikely to be hanging out with your friends on a Friday night or going to a school dance; their first job was probably an endorsement deal, not working the fryer at McDonald’s.
Like I said, I don’t blame them. If someone were to offer me millions of dollars to do something I loved as a kid, at the cost of things I didn’t know I would be missing, I would have taken them up on that deal too. But I wouldn’t then talk about things I knew nothing of, if I were smart enough to know what I didn’t know, that is.
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