K...US Swim Team

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Originally Posted by firstdown

When was the last time you can remember someone in the Olympics talking smack. I'm sure its been done but I cannot rember anyone doing this but like that French swimmer or coach said "the US only won by a finger tip". Duh, just about all events are won by a finger tip, few 100th's of a sec., by fractions of a point. I'm guessing thats one of the reasons the US team was so pumped to win that race.

There's always Olympic smack (i.e. US Basketball team in 2004 and now). I don't mind the smack, it gives the games some excitement, especially when it results in the French getting a pie in their face.

Then came the calamity of 2004 in Athens. First, numerous top NBA players refused to play. Second, several U.S. players arrogantly guaranteed gold and the continuation of American dominance — these weren’t even guarantees, they were statements, as if they could not even imagine another country being good enough to beat them. Third, those other countries now had their own NBA stars. Yes, this was going to be a very different tournament.