Bryant Gumbel & The Winter Olympics
Posted by Moonage on 20 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe
What he said this weekend was just plain stupid. And I mean that sincerely. At this point, I’m sure even he agrees. On pretty much the very day he trashes the Winter Olympics as being a bastion of white folks only, Shari Davis wins one of the very few gold medals the US will win this year. To compund his incredibly dumb statement, he compares the Winter Olympics to the Republican Party ( huh? ). I’ll elt Condi Rice debate that issue with the the equal ranking Democrat of Gumbel’s choice. How many stereotypes did Gumbel think he could cram into one statement? All he left out was white men can’t jump and once you go black, you’ll never go back.
And the real shame of it all is that I agree with Gumbel regarding the points he actually made about winter Olympic games. They bore me. I don’t consider events where someone else determines the result based solely on their opinion to be true competitive games. Curling is NOT a sport. Basketball is. Having Oylmpics every other year is BAD for the Olympics in that the rarity and uniqueness of it is gone. It’s no longer a much-anticipated event. It’s happening all the time. And, now that it is, people are realizing just how boring 90% of the WINTER games are.
So Bryant, do me a favor, keep harping on how boring the Winter Olympics are. But, STICK TO THE SUBJECT. Tossing the race card into every conceivable issue is just tiresome. And quite frankly, is becoming just as effective as the Winter Olympics are.
For details of Gumbel’s comments, go American Phoenix.
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