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Vets_Husband_and_Wife , I agree with YOUR post completely! This stupid article is awful and I disagree with it! Good thing I will never meet the idiot that wrote the article.I would not give two cents for a person like this in any way shape or form.

I love the Olympics and it is important to learn of the lives that have worked so hard to overcome things in their lives to commit to their dream. It is the hope, the glasd half full the wanting to better themselves and be all they can be.

ONLY liberals hate people that want to succeed and better themselves and be the best they can be in any chosen field, even sports.

This article makes me sick! Thank God America is NOT about being negative,but being positive and to reach for the brass ring, the better life and to better oneself.ONLY liberals want handouts and things handed to them .

I think you miss the point. The Olympics are not supposed to resemble the Oprah Winfrey Show. It's supposed to be about sports competition. And sure, there are some compelling personal stories at every Olympics and nobody is rooting against someone because they are a cancer survivor or a latchkey kid. What they resent is how such stories seem to become bigger than the games themselves.

We know nothing about the Lithuanian who wins the biathalon because he doesn't speak English and has no life of hardship to overcome, but we DO know about the American who finishes 44th because he lost his mum at age 7 and shows the skill of weeping on cue.