I don’t comment much on sports here at The Glittering Eye. It’s just not one of my interests. However, I did want to remark on the sorry incident involving a U. S. swimmer (who, by the accounts I’ve read, is a well known shmeggegie) in Rio.
Like it or not the athletes on the U. S. Olympic team are ambassadors. They represent us not just themselves. And in a world of 24 hour news when every smartphone is a videocamera it’s not possible to hush up athletes’ misbehavior as it used to be.
Either we should start taking character into account when awarding positions on the U. S. Olympic team or we should be keeping our team on shorter leashes from the time they arrive in the host country until the time that they leave.
Heh. As the tapes get studied, and more eyewitness accounts unfold……….it appears maybe Brazilian police and judges are of questionable character.