June 18, 2008, - 7:57 pm
Becky Hammon: More Evidensky That the Olympics Are a Fraud, Games Outlived Their “Purpose”
By Debbie Schlussel
Longtime readers of my work know that I am not a fan of the Olympic Games. This is despite the fact that I represented Olympic Silver Medalist Diver Scott Donie during the 1996 Olympic Games, as his agent and attorney. I’ve written a three-part series about why the Olympics is a cauldron of deceit and tyranny. (“What’s So Great About the Olympics? Nothing,” Part I, Part II, Part III)
In reality, the Games are not about international competition or peace and understanding, as they are billed. They are about promoting Anti-Americanism, Communism, Islamic terrorism, and Anti-Semitism. All of these things have been part and parcel of the Olympics throughout the last century. The International Olympic Committee still refuses to memorialize the slaughtered Israeli athletes who gave their lives at the 1972 Munich Games. The only good thing about the Olympics was the 1980 USA Hockey Team defeat of the Soviets in the semi-finals at Lake Placid, a glorious moment the world wishes to minimize, as does the Olympic Games governing structure.
That Was Then, This is Nowsky: American Becky Hammon . . .
. . . Is Now “Russian” Bekki Hammon
Now, there’s the issue of Becky Hammon, as yet another example of how fraudulent the Olympics is. Her story will shine the most attention on Olympic Women’s Basketball that it’s ever gotten and far more than it deserves. But it also sheds light on how fake the “international” aspect of the Olympics actually is.
Hammon–one of the few WNBA players who actually looks like a woman–was not chosen to play for Team USA. So, this blonde native daughter of South Dakota–who didn’t speak a word of Russian–chose to play basketball in Russia. They made her a quickie citizen. And, now–Strasveui, Bekki (“Hello, Becky” in Russian)–meet the newest Russian Olympic basketball player. She will be the only member of the team who doesn’t wear a Cross Your Heart Hammock, er . . . Bra. But even she has glammed down to look like a true WNBA, er . . . Russian basketball player.
This chick is as American as apple pie. She’s as much of a Russian as I’m from Fiji. And this is the BS of the Olympics. Athletes who don’t make it in their native country can now pick and choose.
The games aren’t amateur either, as they once were. That was the beauty of the USA Hockey Team’s 1980 win. They were true amateurs who slept on old prison cots at Lake Placid, against steroid-ridden professional Russian players. Now, everyone is a pro, with thousands to millions of dollars in sponsorships and lucrative advertising deals.
And since the athletes are neither amateurs nor real natives of the countries for which they play, what’s the point? No point, other than mucho dinero for Olympic athletes, the multi-billion dollar bloated Olympic bureaucracy, and NBC (which currently holds the broadcast rights).
No, there is nothing “Olympic” about the Olympic Games anymore.
Couldn’t agree more. If we had any cajones, we’d (USA) pull out of this like a Kyoto summit. It’s far more about promoting seperatist BS than “unity”. Remember the inappropriate “black power” salute? More agenda driven than anything else.
spiffo on June 18, 2008 at 8:41 pm