Ive been watching many of the events on television and it sounds to me like the writer of this article is lying outright.
I jeered the men's basketball team when they lost to puerto rico. Americans almost always face hostile crowds in these events.
whistling=booing in Europe?
Booing past the graveyard?
Europeans must think our construction workers are gay
The USA will get the last laugh. Look at the stands at the Olympic venues. They are empty. Americans stayed home. Tourist dollars from the USA stayed out of Greece.
Reminds me of an article I read about a big union boss in Germany that is beside himself because Americans soldiers are pulling out of Germany. He is the same union boss that called Americans warmongers and he made a point to show his anti-American bias at every turn. Now it seems he needs us and he can't figure out why we are leaving.
Who probably are as big NBA fans as any stateside and weren't happy about the money they spent on tickets given the Nightmare Team's shameful performance.
There's no whining at the Olympics.
They were probably jeering th b-ball team because they lost a lot of money betting on them.,......
This sucks! It's like all those jeering fans are trying to turn the Olympics into some kinds of "competition." It's almost like they want one side to "win" and the other side to "lose." Pathetic.....
Polls here have shown that anti-American sentiment is just as strong here as in most corners of the world these days, something I had confirmed on an infinitely smaller score by a lengthy chat on the matter with a Greek college student the other day. No matter which way I tried to angle our discussion, he would retort with: "Why do you want to rule the world?"
The merits of his point aside, I wondered what this had to do with sports.
I discount this entire story based on the last line in the article. Obvious bias.
I'm hoping that this is the beginning of the end for the Olympics. Waste of time and money, it is...
I heard quite a few whistles from the crowd when the mens swim team won an event the other night. They announcers didn`t say anything about it , but it was obvious to me.
I have watched a few of the basketball games and I figured the whistling was the European way of saying that the refs made a bad call, or missed a call.
Unfortunately, Greece has been a very anti-American country for a very long time (anti-Semitic, too).
This is bs. The Greeks have never like the US - moreso after the Bosnia conflict as their sympathy lay with the Serbian Christians. Clinton's 1999 trip there was cut short because of the protests including 2000 people holding a mock trial of Clinton.
Embrace the horror, Euroweenies. Bow to your sports masters.