Not aware of Adam Lambert until last week?It gets worse. :o)And I thought I was woefully out of the mainstream pop culture! ;-)
I had never heard of Shaun White until last week either!
You’re a man with ownership over his own life—congrats!
Two possible reasons:
One of the downsides of one network getting the contract for Olympic coverage seems to be that no other network ever mentions them.
or (my preferred reason)
The Olympics stress the competition between nations. Athletes march in with the flags of their countries. National anthems are played at medal ceremonies. Present day medialogues are anti-national and pro-global, and particularly, anti-American-patriotism, so they choose to ignore coverage of these athletes.
When Brian Williams? interviewed vp Biden after the opening ceremonies, he mentioned that his son was enthralled by a hockey player from Russia who is a star for the Washington Capitals, so he was planning to root for the Russian team at the Olympics. Williams asked Biden what he should tell him.
The Vice-president of the United States, officially representing the United States at that ceremony, replied that he would never presume to tell a parent how to raise a child!!!!!
Not one word about rooting for the "home" team for this tournament, and then root for the Capitals when this guy got back to DC.
Not one word about having any feeling for our own country to win at Something!!! Williams' child is a six-year-old. His future outlook on his citizenship is being formed now, and patriotism is apparently not a concern to VPOTUS.