Short answer: Yes. Always. We are Americans. At one time we WERE the best of the best and no one could touch us. We must crush all who stand in our path. Ask anyone around FR and that's going to be the prevailing attitude
What's the problem this time? Mediocrity. All those who were supposed to stand out....didn't. We have but a week left in these Olympics to prove ourselves....and, frankly, I don't hold out much hope.
Granted, there are some disciplines that we have never been a power in (Nordic disciplines, biathlon, ski jumping). There are some sports, however, that we have been dominant in past Olympics. It just seems that we've fielded some people who are great human interest stories, but not overwhelming competitors who should be winning their sports.
I'd love this to change, but we're getting to the point that sports should be something we'll need to take our focus off of in order to focus on more important things.
Sounds more like Germany than the US.
If you win all the time it gets boring, and people start to root for the underdogs.
People like comeback stories, and rightly so. Next time will be our comeback story.
People who think the US must be #1 all the time are best left not watching the Winter Games, the only time we’ve ever been #1 in the medal count for winter was 1932. We’re always top 10 but only top 3 half the time. It just doesn’t feature sports we excel at, mostly because it doesn’t feature sports we watch.