The media deserve this. They are always trying to find some melodramatic personal story to wallow in when it comes to sports figures. There was a satirical piece in The Onion about an Olympic athlete who was working on a compelling personal story.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/future-olympic-star-hard-at-work-on-her-backstory,29217/
Liberals are ruining everything, including sports. Can’t we just watch the games? Do we have to hear about every competitor who lost a relative and is playing for him or her? It’s enough to make one gag. Costas and Mussberger are two of the worst offenders when it comes to blathering endlessly about a sob story. Oh, and even worse than those clowns is one of the announcers on Fox Sports Midwest who does the STL Cardinals games. He never talks about the game, just the schmaltz. Makes me want to kick in the TV.
Reminds me of Gabby Douglas and the “racist gym” in which she was supposedly the only black gymnast. I can think of six who were in the gym every day with her. And that was over six years ago. Several of them have graduated college now and are in medical school and/or graduate school. They are great young women who were also elite level gymnasts. Those girls immediately cried foul. And yet the national media does not care to change their storyline. And US Gymnastics does not correct the storyline. Because they would then be labeled as racists. Maybe Gabby has corrected the story by now and I missed it, but I doubt it.