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Even without gold, Adam Rippon is an Olympic champion
Outsports: Courage is Contagious ^ | 2.16.2018 | Cyd Zeigler

Posted on 02/17/2018 8:53:09 AM PST by libh8er

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To: DAC21

Oooohhh no... that’s not what he’s angling for. He’s angling for one of those glittery jobs on TV where he can be the voice of figure skating IN YOUR FACE for the next 10 Olympics. Like the poof they have sitting with poor, pretty Tara Lipinski.


81 posted on 02/17/2018 10:40:37 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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To: libh8er

Even without gold, Adam Rippon is a champion faggot.


82 posted on 02/17/2018 10:44:09 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: NormsRevenge

Cyd Zeigler, the autthor of this article,

presently lives in Los Angeles with his husband, Dan Pinar, a dentist.


83 posted on 02/17/2018 10:48:28 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: libh8er

Sorry folks - only gold medal winners receive the title “Olympic Champions”
There aren’t participation trophies at the Olympics - and that’s why people have enjoyed the Olympics for so long.

He does, however, deserve the title, “Olympian” - as do all the Olympic competitors.
And that is nothing to sneeze at.


84 posted on 02/17/2018 10:49:01 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: libh8er

No he is a piece of crap and a gold medal pole smoker not a hero.


85 posted on 02/17/2018 11:01:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: libh8er

Has there ever been a more barf-worthy article?


86 posted on 02/17/2018 11:02:02 AM PST by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Hardastarboard

The curling conversation happens on every Olympics thread.


87 posted on 02/17/2018 11:04:15 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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To: Scotswife

No, you can throw that out at the pub the rest of your life...


88 posted on 02/17/2018 11:06:11 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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To: libh8er

Adam is a celebrated queer


89 posted on 02/17/2018 11:08:21 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: JPJones
I am a CURLING fan. There, I said it. I’m still a good person.

Me too. just got into it and now with Rugby in the summer Olympics i'm set.

90 posted on 02/17/2018 11:10:39 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: DAC21

“If he’s lucky he’ll be hired to put the Snoopy costume on for the next Ice Capades tour.”

I was thinking one of the princesses for Disney on Ice!


91 posted on 02/17/2018 11:13:42 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: bravo whiskey

“I am a CURLING fan. There, I said it. I’m still a good person.”

“Me too.”

Hopefully our courage and fortitude will help others who still hide in the shadows of hate and fear.


92 posted on 02/17/2018 11:23:31 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: libh8er

Adam Rippon should never have been on the Olympic team. Whoever chose the skaters for the men’s US team picked him over Ross Miner who came in second at the US Nationals; Rippon came in fourth and didn’t have the skills that Ross had. Clearly, a case of PC. If I were Ross Miner, I would be as mad as hell.


93 posted on 02/17/2018 11:26:04 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: libh8er

We have a new term in our family “Stealing apples from the gym”. Not sure how we’re going to use it, probably have something to do with homos.


94 posted on 02/17/2018 11:28:18 AM PST by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: JPJones
Curling Rocks!!!


95 posted on 02/17/2018 11:34:27 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

I believe that they’re called “stones”. :=)


96 posted on 02/17/2018 11:38:17 AM PST by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: xp38

“Curling Rocks!!!”

Another one Out of the Closet!

We are a Force to be reckoned with!

We’re Curling Fans, We’re Fierce and We’re In Your Face!!!!!!


97 posted on 02/17/2018 11:43:47 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: IronJack

Great comment. That author deems Rippon a hero because he’s homosexual. He’s so libtarded and sin bound, he’s lost all sense of reality.


98 posted on 02/17/2018 11:57:59 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just look)
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To: IronJack

Great comment. That author deems Rippon a hero because he’s homosexual. He’s so libtarded and sin bound, he’s lost all sense of reality.


99 posted on 02/17/2018 11:57:59 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just look)
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To: GnuThere
Yeah, but you didn’t WIN.

If you have no humility from losing, how do you get any better?

Would you rather they hang their head in shame because they 'let down their country'?

The thing about the Olympics is written in the Olympic Motto, which is stated in the article. The vast majority of the athletes who show up have no chance in Hell of winning a medal of any kind. They are there to participate. They gather together to show the world that, despite our differences, we don't have to kill each other, just to prove who is better.

Would I love it if the US won every gold medal they were entered in? Of course. Is that possible? No.

Remember the old Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc nations? They won a large amount of medals, but they did it through what amounted to state-sponsored control of who got to compete, and sometimes outright cheating.

US athletes have to earn their way to the Olympics. They do what they can to raise money just to compete, not to mention getting to the Olympics themselves. They aren't government-sponsored. I hope it stays that way.

If they believe that they did their best, that they 'left it all out there', even if they didn't win...I'm okay with that. Hopefully, they use what they learned to get better and, if possible, try again in 4 years. If, while they are there, they do their best and have some fun in the meantime, I'm cool with that.

Now, as for Adam Rippon...no, he isn't a champion. No, he didn't advance 'gay rights' by what he did. He only embarrassed himself by what he said and did. Unless he gets a massive wake-up call (whatever that may be), he will probably never understand what kind of a fool he looked like.

The same goes for ANY US athlete who disses their government because they don't like who is in charge.

100 posted on 02/17/2018 12:12:27 PM PST by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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