Olympic Cheerleaders

Contact Music says it’s going to be the lowest ratings ever for Winter Olympics. I can see how. Olympic cheerleaders. I’m not kidding:

In the true Olympic spirit of competition, they rejoice when anyone scores, in the same contest. Sometimes they misinterpret the proceedings and cheer over a disputed medal, or a penalty in a hockey game. On Saturday night, the Czech Republic’s hockey star Jaromir Jagr was down on the ice, blood streaming from a cut to his forehead, while a fight broke out between his teammates and Finland’s players. The uniformed young women lined up in a nearby aisle apparently thought it was a showtime cue and began rattling their pompoms. And during Canada’s 16-0 victory over Italy, the biggest rout in Olympic women’s hockey history, the Italian cheerleaders popped up from their seats on the stadium steps and rejoiced against their countrywomen in the opening competition of the Winter Games.

Me and Dad were watching the Ice Dancing competition, and the Russians TOTALLY stole it. We both thought the scores for the Bulgarians were just outrageous. It was a pathetic show of the judges bias, and how the same people won over and over again. It was also the first 30-seconds of the Olympics I’d watched. Apparently, I’m not the only one who wasn’t watching. However, PR was, and has some ways to get people like me to watch.

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author: John Stansbury
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