Posted on 02/09/2018 4:31:29 AM PST by markomalley
The honor of which American athlete would carry the American flag for Team USA at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics came down to a coin flip today in Pyeongchang. And the athlete on the losing end of that flip is not pleased.
Speed skater Shani Davis decided to not participate in todays ceremonies after he lost the flip to luger Erin Hamlin.
Davis took to Twitter and evoked African American history month in his commentary on the events.
I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event. @TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018#PyeongChang2018pic.twitter.com/dsmTtNkhJs Shani Davis (@ShaniDavis) February 8, 2018
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This may be more about endorsement deals than anything else. I seriously doubt this guy is disappointed because he really wanted to carry Old Glory. It’ll be interesting to see who signs him now.
So, one of N drug-addled “athletes” (where N is a large number) refuses to march?
The olympics are so corrupt that they make the Clintons and Dorkbams seem as honest brokers.
Who gives a sh*t?
Good Luck with those endorsement bro.
wait until he learns it was a two headed coin.
Heh....good point.
WE need to make it clear, we will boycott any product he endorses.
What a jerk.
He’s counting on winning gold to catapult him to fame and fortune.
Now, if he doesn’t win, his status as a victim will do the same.
I thought win or lose good sportsmanship is the core principle of the Olympics!
Why is he still on the team?
The USOC should send him home.
What he’s REALLY pissed about, is that it was decided by a vote, and he did not WIN the vote. He’s asserting that the role should have been GIVEN to him, because of who he is.
Snowflakes are all about “Democracy!”, right up to the point where they don’t win the vote.
NBC ruined the Olympics for me many moons ago.
An endorsement would mean jack to me since I don’t know who these people are.
I used to love watching the Olympics as a kid. But it was about competition then. Sigh.
“...Obama gave all my people (Read: His people) and attitude....”
That’s for sure. The foreign usurper set racial relations back at least 100 years.
As the old saying goes: “You can take the boy out of the jungle, but you’ll never get the jungle out of the boy.” This one is definitely on the left side of the bell curve. Speed skating, huh? We’ll see.
Dishonorably tossed a coin?
Exactly how is that done?
BLACK SNOWFLAKE CRYING
Speed skater? what the hell does he think he is? A jock football player
He’s not an African-American speed skater.
He’s an American speed skater.
He probably couldn’t find Africa on a map of Africa with a giant red arrow pointing to it.
Did he demand a recount ?
Blacks should boycott racist US money.
For those who like their snow colored gray just go to any northern US city the morning after the snow falls.
I was thinking this may be the reason he's all butt-hurt about it. He probably had some sort of "look at me" disrespect planned and now he can't do it.
Or some other "Eff-the-flag/USA" crap.
African-American Olympian
He's no American, send him back to Africa.
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