Mancuso Lacks Sportsmanship
Written by Chriso, Thursday February 25 2010
Do you know when old people start talking about the way things used to be? They mention that things were better in the old days. For example, when the Olympics were about sportsmanship. Of course, I am not sure if Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding would probably be considered the old days. And there really was not much for sportsmanship there.
Yesterday, Lindsey Vonn crashed and broke her finger, and the incident caused another skier Julia Mancuso, to show her unsportsmanship. Mancuso reacted immediately on Twitter with a post filled with obscenities. That post has been removed. Maybe the technology is to blame. In those "good old days," maybe the athletes felt the same way Mancuso did in the heat of the moment, but without the ability to express that anger, the feeling subsided.
Or maybe, Mancuso is wrong no matter what age we are in. It seems the proper way to react to another's injury is to root them on. Even in the most hostile stadiums, you see fans rooting for an injured opponent as they leave the field. It is an old rule, you do not root for injuries. Injuries are a part of any sport. Surely Vonn was as disappointed and trained just as hard only to see it end in an injury.
Mancuso should have known some of the rules of sportsmanship. Perhaps without the ability to tweet right away, she could have taken a moment to collect her thoughts.
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Certainly the weather conditions that dictated a closer starting time played a part, still, a pause before the tweet would have been advised...
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She was upset over the decision to wave the yellow flag during her run, not at the fact that Vonn crashed. Of course she doesn't want to see someone hurt, especially her teammate. She was ticked at the ruling on the slope to make her restart ... her anger was directed at officials, not at Vonn.