Team USA goes medal-less in Day 1 of
Summer Olympics for first time in 49 years
Yahoo! Sports,
by
Jack Baer
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/24/2021 9:13:42 AM
The 2020 Olympics officially got underway on Saturday with the first 11 of 339 gold medals, plus their silver and bronze siblings, meeting their new owners in Tokyo. For the first time in nearly a half-century of the Summer Olympics, none of those new owners were American. According to Olympic historian Bill Mallon, it was the first medal-less Day 1 for the United States since Munich in 1972. While a medal-less Day 1 isn't infrequent in the Winter Olympics for the U.S. — the same thing happened in 2018 at Pyeongchang — the only other time the United States didn't have a
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PageTurner 7/24/2021 9:17:05 AM (No. 855434)
When you hate your country, why would you want to earn a medal for it?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sanspeur 7/24/2021 9:21:42 AM (No. 855441)
save them the effort of kneeling , scowling & ignoring our wonderful flag . Très efficient .
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 7/24/2021 9:24:32 AM (No. 855444)
The ChiComs, like the Soviets and East Germans during the cold war, have legions of professional athletes who are sorted out of their 1.5 billion population with a fine sieve, and drafted into pro sports if they show promise at an early age. Hard for random amateurs to compete with a giant government professional team system.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
red1066 7/24/2021 9:29:32 AM (No. 855450)
I guessing they were too busy kneeling.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/24/2021 9:30:16 AM (No. 855452)
Well, I guess the, "There is no such thing as American Excellence" crowd must be happy.
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Americans are not getting their subsidy's worth! Send these professionals more money, that's the answer.
I am boycotting the Olympics. It is nothing more than a "woke" professional sports spectacular, a springboard to riches, under the guise of athletics. Our nationalism is misplaced. They could as well put Nike, Addidas, or UnderArmor as the "nations" represented.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Califedup 7/24/2021 9:37:54 AM (No. 855463)
Yawn! ZZZZZZZ!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/24/2021 9:52:55 AM (No. 855477)
It's because the lefty children representing Amerika spent Day 1 preaching their unity schtick ad nauseum.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Louieeferg 7/24/2021 9:53:03 AM (No. 855478)
Who cares...I'm not watching.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bldrrepub 7/24/2021 9:56:09 AM (No. 855479)
Too many commercials
Too many whining babies
Too many “Up close and personal” stories
Too many political statements
Not enough sport.
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Let's hope Day 2 is just as profitable for Team CPUSA.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/24/2021 10:03:58 AM (No. 855490)
We'd be leading if there were a medal for kneeling or dis-respecting your flag/country!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/24/2021 10:06:04 AM (No. 855492)
Karma! Get woke, become losers.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chillijilli 7/24/2021 10:17:04 AM (No. 855499)
I'm having great fun telling people I'm not watching because we are OneWorld now and it seems senseless to pit one country against another. We are all citizens of the planet Earth and should be working together in a unified way---not competing.
However, if bonafide teams are required, the teams of worldwide athletes should not be be organized by country, but rather by skin color, religion or sexual orientation. Just think, if teams were organized this way nobody would have to take a knee or turn their back on a flag.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
padiva 7/24/2021 10:18:28 AM (No. 855501)
This is shocking! I thought that Dr Jill would be a sure winner.....of the Best Imitation of a Dalmation award.
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America doesn't have a team in the Olympics this year.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/24/2021 10:30:24 AM (No. 855510)
Even our trannies in the womens’ events can’t win?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 7/24/2021 10:31:14 AM (No. 855511)
But don't they really have medals? I mean, the one's in their hearts for standing up to white Christian, Conservative Men! They will leave with warmth in their hearts as they teach the world what a rotten place the USA is! Did we expect anything else?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/24/2021 10:46:08 AM (No. 855523)
Correction: the America of Joe Biden, the CCP and the Party of Davos goes medal-less. We haven’t seen the real America for some time, now.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
downnout 7/24/2021 10:49:59 AM (No. 855527)
For the first time in memory we skipped the opening ceremonies and have no intention of watching NBC promote anti-American athletes. I hope they lose a bundle.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/24/2021 10:56:31 AM (No. 855534)
I feel bad for our patriot athletes and wish them well. I laugh at and ridicule the kneelers, and hope they get their butts kicked.
I don't care enough about the Olympics to take the time to determine who's in which category.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Californian 7/24/2021 11:11:00 AM (No. 855551)
Wait, what? We sent an American team?
I thought we Americans skipped this year and a bunch of Wokey Woke alphabet soup Marxist idiots took our place?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 7/24/2021 11:17:27 AM (No. 855555)
They’ll blame Trump but we know it’s that cancer Rapinoe
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/24/2021 11:30:30 AM (No. 855563)
Years ago, I quit watching the Olympics - too many commercials, the stuff I wanted to see was teased all evening, then crammed into 20 minutes around midnight, coverage too fragmented and so on. Haven't watched the opening and closing ceremonies since QEII made an appearance in 2012.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/24/2021 11:42:20 AM (No. 855575)
Team USA is so Woke - who cares? Should change the team name to Team WOKE. They certainly aren't representing the U.S.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/24/2021 12:50:29 PM (No. 855638)
They don't represent me or millions like me. So glad they didn't win squat. If only it could continue. Go World, Beat the USA!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/24/2021 1:08:23 PM (No. 855651)
Shouldn't they be given participation certificates? Having a winner is devastating to those not winning, and can have lifelong affects. I am not watching this virus and woke fiasco. I do not watch NBC for any reason. I do not support any of this gathering. They do not represent the USA.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
deerejon 7/24/2021 1:26:03 PM (No. 855666)
When you don't show respect and support the USA,This is what you get.And well deserved.Hope you all lose.You don't like it go in your corner and suck your thumbs.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/24/2021 1:51:09 PM (No. 855693)
too busy being woke!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/24/2021 1:52:46 PM (No. 855698)
It's because the USA is represented by haters.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
SALady 7/24/2021 2:04:51 PM (No. 855709)
I honestly just don't care. And I really miss caring. But I just don't any more.
Lie-beralism destroys everything it touches, and the Olympics are a massive show of that lie-beral destruction. While I don't care if any other Americans get medals or not, I truly hope the women's soccer team and the men's basketball team come home empty handed. Or, even better, finds some socialist paradise while over in that part of the world and just moves there!!!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
AltaD 7/24/2021 2:06:13 PM (No. 855712)
I know nothing about the people who participated in air rifle, air pistol shooting, archery or the other events listed in this article. Maybe they're just athletes or maybe they too are activist-athletes. If they're not activists, then it's a double whammy of disappointment, no medals and their fellow athletes have hijacked the games in the name of blm.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/24/2021 2:31:32 PM (No. 855722)
Since they’re of a generation that received participation trophies growing up, they’re likely not apt to really sweat for those medals.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
wangbuster 7/24/2021 2:33:56 PM (No. 855723)
Practice makes perfect. Give the womens' soccer team a woker's gold medal for kneeling. Excellence in timing and coordination.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
PostAway 7/24/2021 4:35:49 PM (No. 855776)
I often read the comments after the articles posted on L.com for insight and wit. In this case, it is sadly lacking. Many of you, if you even read the article, have conflated USA teams in general with the women’s soccer team and a few other airheaded showboats. Athletes in fencing and rifle haven’t been anti-American to my knowledge and no Americans competed in judo or taekwondo at all.
Anymore, the Olympics are about as pertinent as World’s Fairs and are mostly unlistenable because of the constant inane broadcast blather and the overly sentimental woke nonsensical pap called “up close and personal stories” that are as predictable as they are unmemorable. But snide remarks which grossly generalize fools like Meghan Rapinoe as being representative of American participants are nonsensical blather themselves and I hope we are better than that.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/24/2021 4:43:33 PM (No. 855780)
Boycott Woke-lympics, boycott pro sports. They do not represent me in any way.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/24/2021 9:37:51 PM (No. 855990)
The parents of team USA must be ashamed.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
local500 7/25/2021 12:38:09 PM (No. 856548)
Go woke, go broke.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
broken01 7/25/2021 9:25:47 PM (No. 856934)
There is a cartoon that used to come on back in 1977 called Laff-A-Lympics. It had teams lead by Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear and Mumbly. This cartoon is more entertaining than the real live Schiff show that’s happening now.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Laotzu 7/26/2021 1:54:32 PM (No. 857590)
The Karmalympics
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