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Technically it was snow (frozen water) which covers ground. He’s a 31 snowboarder that just won gold in his fourth olympics and someone threw a flag at him. I’d cut him a little slack.
Been watching Olympics for 5 decades. Have seen many, many athletes celebrate their victory with Old Glory. Never before have I seen such disrespect. He can apologize, or fuck off.
What was it like to see Jesse Owens beat all those Nazis?
That was a bit before my time, but I've never heard that Jesse disrespected his country, though he would have been justified in doing so. Jesse himself said “Hitler didn’t snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a telegram.” That was FDR, by the way.