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| WiseYao |
 Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:06 pm |
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I think it is fine to have their argument to be expressed, even thought it is quite amusing. Got to love this country because every one has a turn to make a case.
Was not really happy with Palin' personal eMails to be leaked. The Internet has wielded too much power of probing into people's privacy.
American is a great country with great minds who would right the ship at ciritical times. Long live U.S.A.
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| pryuen |
| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:26 pm |
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WiseYao wrote: I think it is fine to have their argument to be expressed, even thought it is quite amusing. Got to love this country because every one has a turn to make a case.
There is freedom of expression of course....... but don't you think these cyclists are abusing it to a certain extent?? 
The more they dwell on the case, the more stupid and childish they look to the world. They said they have been treated like children. Well the matter of the fact is they had been acting like children. Of all the 15,000 athletes arriving at Beijing, they were the only ones stupid and arrogant enough to wear the masks inside the airport, without even attempting to see if the air outside was really that polluted.
They made fools of themselves by doing so, and now they turned their agony/disgrace to finger-point and blame someone else, and asked for someone's head to be rolled.  |
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| WiseYao |
| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:05 pm |
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When Liu Xiang's coach got the pressure from his boss to win, he could not talk back. (But he was smart enough to let the word out to the media, and so we knew he was under great pressure.)
In U.S., it is less likely that the coach or athletes to be given pressure one way or another. In this rare case, the athletes were given some pressure to apologize. They had good points there, which is like, you gave me the masks, so we wore it. Don't blame on us. legitimate, but nonstanding. My point is not here.
In U.S. if no one would speak out under seemingly unreasonable pressure/unfair treatment., then it is real trouble.
pryuen wrote: There is freedom of expression of course....... but don't you think these cyclists are abusing it to a certain extent??
The more they dwell on the case, the more stupid and childish they look to the world. They said they have been treated like children. Well the matter of the fact is they had been acting like children. Of all the 15,000 athletes arriving at Beijing, they were the only ones stupid and arrogant enough to wear the masks inside the airport, without even attempting to see if the air outside was really that polluted.
They made fools of themselves by doing so, and now they turned their agony/disgrace to finger-point and blame someone else, and asked for someone's head to be rolled. |
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| pryuen |
| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:49 pm |
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WiseYao wrote: They had good points there, which is like, you gave me the masks, so we wore it. Don't blame on us. legitimate, but nonstanding.
If I'm not mistaken, every US athletes (and some other countries' athletes, too) were given masks. Did they wear it at the airport? These cyclists should have used their brain to think like adults, and not like children. When they acted like children, they should be responsible for their stupidity and arrogance, and therefore they should be the one to apologize for causing that embarrassment, with or without pressure from the above. |
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| shokenchi |
| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:58 pm |
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pryuen wrote: WiseYao wrote: They had good points there, which is like, you gave me the masks, so we wore it. Don't blame on us. legitimate, but nonstanding.
they deserve gold medal for sour grapes. wait till london to see if they can win anything.  |
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| GoYao |
| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:21 am |
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None of these loser cyclist came close to smell a medal - so what da heck r they whining about?
What they did is arrogant and classless, typical obnoxious American white trash. They should be chided like children and I applaud it. If they want to act like children, they will be treated like one. |
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| LAYAOFan |
| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:40 am |
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GoYao wrote: None of these loser cyclist came close to smell a medal - so what da heck r they whining about?
exactly...they are only prolonging their embarassment. They should "man up" and just say they gave it their best, but their best wasn't good enough...nothing to be ashamed of...but now they are looking like fools. |
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| YY2008 |
| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:50 pm |
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| USOC also gave these cyclist condoms, they also wore the condoms when arriving in Beijing airport. So, u cant blame them for wearing what's given to them. |
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