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Serena Williams becomes the first woman to win all four Grand Slams and a gold medal in both singles and doubles.
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Serena Williams Wins ‘Golden Slam’ in Rout Over Maria Sharapova
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10 Responses to Serena Williams Wins ‘Golden Slam’ in Rout Over Maria Sharapova
Congratulations to the hands down BEST female Tennis player who has EVER lived!!!!
Doesn’t it bother ANYONE, that these are professional players in something (The Olympics) that was meant for non-pro players?
Who are the good players, the deserving players who have been shut out of this event because the professional hogs must take up more of the spotlight than they already do?
This is disgusting.
And it doesn’t matter what an ethically bankrupt Olympic committee says. They’ll twist themselves into pretzels if they have to in order to get the money they desperately crave.
Take basketball, team USA finished 3rd with college basketball players in 1988. America & Russia voted against FIBA extending it to pros, but they lost the argument.
The blowout by the US over Nigeria was a mismatch, but unless you decide to segregate it further into tiers, which won’t happen, everyone knows what’s going on.
Countries like China and Russia groom their athlete for years.
It’s certainly not what it was once intentioned, as we saw when the Chinese tried to throw Badminton & got expelled for doing it. Rules there certainly need to be changed.
That the Olympic games survive at all is a miracle, even if it’s quite different today. And when I see the female from Saudi Arabia competing for the first time, even though she wasn’t as nearly as skilled and got beat quickly because she wasn’t, I think on the whole the Olympics remain something to cheer and support.
The are SOOO many other Olympic events that are still relatively non-pro. Shooting, synchronized swimming, judo, weightlifting, the marathon, indoor cycling, and more. The Olympics survive because for many countries, this is their chance to be SEEN and HEARD. Yes the USA men’s basketball team destroyed Nigeria. But Nigeria played hard even when down by 80. Even Kobe Bryant and Lebron James were impressed with how Nigeria never quit. But then the USA runs into Lithuania, a team with AWESOME skills, and we have a GAME. So competition hasn’t went away. Competition is alive and well. Had the nationalistic flair, that’s why The Games are still so great in my opinion.
T-Steel, all cycling is professional these days. The indoor version is HUGE in Europe. The Madison, Team Pursuit, Time Trial, Keirin, are watched by thousands in purpose built Velodromes.
Elite players in track and in the road game are physical phenomena who spend years in their craft. Most start on the cusp of Puberty in small regional clubs and are developed over the years. If they are on an Olympic team, especially one of the European teams, they are well paid professionals. Granted, the Track specialists are not as well payed as their Road cousins. But then the Track guys don’t have the haul their asses for 175 Km over big honking mountains.
Just because there are plenty of non-pro sports doesn;t mean that we have to give over any sport to the pros.
There are kids who only want to play basketball or tennis. Why shouldn’t they have a chance? (Why? Because a. we want to win so much that we throw everything we’ve got and the hopes of just plain kids don’t matter, and b. spoiled brats get their way.)
Yes, it’s wonderful to see people like that woman just having the joy of being in the Games.
That’s my point.
How many amateur hopefuls in Basketball and Tennis, etc. are LOCKED out of the games because spoiled brat pros just have to have their way and hog even more of the spotlight and show off more of their dubious talent?
There are kids out there who would love the chance. But no. The overpaid “professional” jerks are given the slots that should have gone to other more deserving individuals.
And saying that other countries prep their players for years is no argument. If we put some money into amateur sports and encouraged kids to play by supporting their efforts, that would be a hell of a lot better than watching overpaid pros crushing amateur players.
The current headline at Drudge is “Serena Does The Crip Walk”
If you noticed the victory dance that Serena did at after winning the match vs. Maria Sharapova…sigh, I just knew it would be exploited by the “Niggaz is dangerous” crew over at Faux Sports
Shorthand: Serena the Thug (Where have I heard that before?)
Perhaps a non-prop would have acted with more aplomb and might just have been grateful for the chance to win and be in the spotlight and not use it as a chance to act out.
Just a thought.
That should read: “non-pro” not non-prop