'If you don’t think what I do is not hard, you’re a damn idiot'

Daily Mail ^ | Feb 15, 2014 | Daily Mail reporter

[plain talk]

US figure-skating champion Jeremy Abbott lashed out at his critics in a foul-mouthed rant after his and teammate Jason Brown's spectacular slump at the Sochi Olympics.

Olympic champion Evan Lysacek did not defend his title and Abbott and pony-tailed teen Brown failed to sparkle in the Iceberg Skating Palace, to leave the United States off the men's podium for the first time since the 1998 Nagano Games.

[Future Snake Eater]

they created a bunch of sports “celebrities” out of thin air, that they have pimped endlessly for over a month, to gin interest in watching.

Now they seem shocked that these athlete “Celebs” aren’t delivering the goods.

Reminds me of this major buildup in the 1988 Summer Olympics. Despite the hype, it never really went anywhere.

[TexasFreeper2009]

keeping it classy, as are most of the rest of our athletes this Olympics

[Cyber Liberty]

What if you think what he does isn’t a sport?

My hand is up. Figure Skating is not a "sport."

[1rudeboy]

'I'm proud to be standing here. I'm a four-time national champion. I'm a two-time Olympian and no one can take that away from me.

'So some people can handle it better than others, but everyone has that mental struggle, everyone goes through the same doubts. I am not alone. They just come at different times and different moments. Some people have their moment at the Olympics, and some have theirs at the national championships.'

'So whatever other people have to say about me, that's their own problem because I'm freaking proud of what I've done and I'm not going to apologize for any of it.'

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[Norm Lenhart]

“quit acting like a drama queen in your sissy sport”

I kinda thought that WAS his sport ;)

[Beagle8U]

Hunting, fishing, trapping, etc are sports, the rest are just games.

Sportsmen = hunting and fishing.

Gamesters = golf, football, baseball,..

[bigbob]

I’m not sure how hard what he does is, but I am sure he is an idiot

[outofsalt]

If at first you don’t succeed, come out as, “gay” and decry global warming.

[Celtic Conservative]

Uncanny, the resemblance, LOL!

CC

[Iron Munro]

One too many not's

[publius911]

I think he meant to say "If you think what I do is not hard...". One too many not's

Hey!
Be nice. Perverts' brains are not normal.

Q.E.D.

[CWCoop]

How about, I don’t care whether what you do is hard or not! LOL

[mulligan]

Life’s hard.

[tennmountainman]

The Pajama Boy of Sochi.

[eyedigress]

Apparently “what you do” isn’t ready for the Olympics.

[plain talk]

LOL!

[publius911]

Is there money in it? Does it result in commercial endorsements and a long-term cashflow stream?

That may be viewed as a crassly profit definition...

How about, "Does it provide a useful, beneficial service or product that is actively desired and sought out by society at large?"

[publius911]

Yes poor grammar but he works hard to create beauty. Nothing wrong with that. It’s more fun to watch than curling or IMHO speed skating.

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder with the intellectual capacity to see it.
Applies equally to the music of the planets, or the mathematics of sliding smooth stone objects.

[peeps36]

I don't know about that. Did you see the female curling team from Japan?