Winning Silver and Sportsmanship

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Winning Silver and Sportsmanship

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http://time.com/5170424/canadian-takes- ... -olympics/

The Canadian women’s hockey team just had to settle for silver, but one player couldn’t keep it around her neck.

Team USA defeated its longtime archrival Canada 3-2 in a tension-packed tiebreaker shootout on Thursday. Some Canadian hockey players wept, but the loss was especially crushing for Jocelyne Larocque. After the post-game ceremony, defense powerhouse Larocque could only stand to look at the silver draped around her neck for a few seconds before she yanked it off and held it in her hands.

“It’s just hard,” the 2014 Sochi gold medalist said after the event. “You work so hard. We wanted gold but didn’t get it.”

[video=32]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFulXfOXIdc[/video]

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what do y'all think? display of a competitive attitude and the fighting spirit? or unsportsmanlike conduct?
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I think she's just disappointed, she didn't want to draw attention on her at all.
I can understand that, it's not like she thrown the silver medal on the floor.
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it's both. understandable, but not the behaviour you'd like to see. it's not too serious though, as far as losing tantrums go, there have been way worse.
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Can't wait for Twitter to go bankrupt and Facebook to be regulated into oblivion. Then all these moralising hyenas and jackals will lose a platform where they pass judgement all day without them accomplishing much in their lives.
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Dolan wrote:Can't wait for Twitter to go bankrupt and Facebook to be regulated into oblivion. Then all these moralising hyenas and jackals will lose a platform where they pass judgement all day without them accomplishing much in their lives.


Oh the irony. :roll:
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I didn't start this, I wasn't the one who started telling them what they should do, until they started "regulating" other people's lives via social media. That's the difference.
Do we allow this?

What do (((we))) feel about this?

Is this racist?

Maybe she's secretly anti-gay and opposes the rights of kids to identify as two-spirited attack helicopters

She's probably pro-Trump too

We, the Social Media Moralising Brigade gotta do something, we need to decide whether she should be :thumbdown: or :thumbup:
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that shit's irrelevant to the op man
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Lol what a spoiled brat. She even got gold last time. Learn from Starcraft's soO, who has 7 silvers and 0 golds, and manages to not disrespect everyone who worked just as hard as him but got worse results than silver.
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I don't see the problem. Every football player would do the same after a lost final.
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I was going to post a story of my own poor sportsmanship but then I realized, "Why would I do that?"

Anyways this is a trifle. As far as acts of frustration and loss at the world's highest competitive level go, this is pretty tame. After a high school basketball match one of my teammates (and good friend) punched a kid sweet goodnight on the other team in the handshake line (hilarious). Rofl at Dolan getting riled up over people voicing their opinions, almost like a presupposed regulator of... peoples' expressions... like a policing agent of thought?
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I don't even think this is a debate-worthy subject, tbh. But some people can't contain their self-righteousness on social media. Why would I pass judgement on what she did? Why would you?
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This is so far away from unsportsmanlike behavior
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Well, it kinda depends on how the game went. If my team was the favorite but I didn't manage to prove it I would be pissed off as well. Considering the rivalry (I assume) between the two teams I think you can't make an agument for respect here.
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Dolan wrote:I don't even think this is a debate-worthy subject, tbh. But some people can't contain their self-righteousness on social media. Why would I pass judgement on what she did? Why would you?

Why would you care if it's so seemingly dumb?

Some people can't contain their self righteousness over renouncing others' alleged self righteousness :hmm:
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And who is going to stop them, if they're not self-aware?

I'm starting to realise Aristotle was right. Some people are born with a slave mentality. They have to constantly measure their lives against others'. Freedom is too much of a burden for them to carry. They have to somehow cling to other people's lives, constantly commenting on them, shit, making a career out of it.
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Garja wrote:... you can't make an argument for respect here.

That is so wrong, if you can't control your impulses you can't show sportsmanship.
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Dolan wrote:And who is going to stop them, if they're not self-aware?

I'm starting to realise Aristotle was right. Some people are born with a slave mentality. They have to constantly measure their lives against others'. Freedom is too much of a burden for them to carry. They have to somehow cling to other people's lives, constantly commenting on them, shit, making a career out of it.
Easy there tiger. Following and commenting on news, especially sports, is a form of entertainment. You may be reading into it a little too much. Dare I call projection?
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Slightly disrespecting the Olympic spirit!
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Goodspeed wrote:Easy there tiger. Following and commenting on news, especially sports, is a form of entertainment. You may be reading into it a little too much. Dare I call projection?

Commenting on news? Sure, sports? Sure. Commenting on what some notable people are doing everyday, just for the sake of signalling how much better you are for passing judgement? Pathetic, imo.

Those people should get that silver medal first then comment.
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Lol
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Ashvin wrote:
Garja wrote:... you can't make an argument for respect here.

That is so wrong, if you can't control your impulses you can't show sportsmanship.

What's sportmanship?
She did that on purpose but without making up a show, which is the relevant thing here. She is free to think what she wants, including being upset about the resupt of the match.
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Wait this is behavior far from that, but I was just saying in general. She did nothing wrong tbh.
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Meanwhile some people applaud some American football players for not standing up while their anthem plays. And the Twitter Moral Brigade says that's totally fine, there's no sign of disrespect there.

But if a girl takes her medal off because she's unhappy with the result, then that's such a show of disrespect, says the same social media moral brigade.
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I dont know the background for this clip, and I am not in to hockey :P . That said, if they where favorits, going for gold, of corse silver is a downturn. These ppl have spent their best years, training, compeating and being focused at winning. Losing a final, when you where hoping for the gold, Yeah - I can understand that feeling.
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Dolan wrote:Meanwhile some people applaud some American football players for not standing up while their anthem plays. And the Twitter Moral Brigade says that's totally fine, there's no sign of disrespect there.

But if a girl takes her medal off because she's unhappy with the result, then that's such a show of disrespect, says the same social media moral brigade.

Jesus3, dude. It's just a conversation (and two entirely different and unrelated topics of interest).

Something's got your rustles jimmied, if I can make that observation.

But, so be it!

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