Tuesday, May 18, 2004
On Winning Unobtrusively
Via Cox & Forkum, an article from the Telegraph on warnings to US athletes not to celebrate victories in an overtly patriotic fashion. Mike Moran, a former spokesman for the USOC who's now acting as a consultant is quoted in the piece:
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"If a Kenyan or a Russian grabs their national flag and runs round the track or holds it high over their heads, it might not be viewed as confrontational. Where we are in the world right now, an American athlete doing that might be viewed in another manner."
Sad.
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