Posted on 08/03/2021 6:36:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
TOKYO—It’s common for stress to get to professional athletes, but U.S. women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe has been dealing with a recurring nightmare: winning the gold medal and having to hear the U.S. national anthem play.
“Aieee! The anthem of my most hated country!” she would hiss and scream as the anthem played. “The one that won’t pay me fairly!”
“Such a horrible nightmare really takes a lot out of you,” Rapinoe told reporters. “It’s started to affect my performance... which I guess is good, so it makes sure that nightmare won’t happen.”
It should all be over soon, though, as the finals are today. Rapinoe is hopeful that will help the nightmares end. “I had a really bad nightmare last night that we won the gold and heard the U.S. anthem,” Rapinoe said, “but as soon as I woke up, I remembered we lost to Canada, so that’s never going to happen. What a relief.”
It does sound exactly like something Rapinoe would say
Aging athletes, like actors, need to stay ‘relevant’.
Not so
They can go to Portland or any other American sh#@-hole of their choosing (or of their own making) and hold the entire US and world ‘media’ in their thrall (easy peasy), while they throw a tantrum.
There is NO need to disrupt the Olympics or the ruin hard won Olympic experience of other athletes. THAT'S just childish and selfish malice!!
And as for personal challenges they drag along behind them TO the games....HE*&! I am old enough to remember when there was no smarmy, whiny back story to every single athlete's path to the games! Enough with that BS!!
Tomorrow morning they go up against Australia for the bronze medal. Here’s hoping Rapinho gets 4th place.
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