Who could argue with that? It shocks me to watch young people behave like thugs and worse if throwing the flag on the ground happened. I didn’t watch because of the lack of graceful sportsmanship.
“...... It shocks me to watch young people behave like thugs and worse....”
The thought that this is a young group of competitors is a security blanket for the team concerning their political actions. These are not youth. They are adults and are expected to act like them in representation of the US. The age span of the team is everywhere from 20 to 34. There are three competitors under 25 and the average of the team players in 26.6 years.
And that’s the problem. They are well aware that they are going to be emulated by youth, especially by young ladies trying to excel and be a part of the growing process. Over the last 25 plus years, young women’s sports has grown into the same mold that young men’s sports has possessed as part of the learning process to a responsible and acceptable adulthood within our society. And that’s where they failed both doing the actions and not stepping forward to self identity they were not part of it, thus guilty by association allowing it to represent the team and teaching youth irresponsible and foolish ways to accomplish their behavior.
rwood