Gymnasts Booed at Pan Am Games

[Cascade]

Hadn't yet seen a thread on this topic. Just wondering what everyone thought of Brazil's contention that the fans were just excited and didn't mean any harm to the athletes from other countries. Do you think there is a possibility we could see this kind of behaviour in China??

[gracefulone]

I didn't hear about that...

[Cascade]

The other disturbing thing is that they cheered when athletes from other countries made mistakes... ie falling off the beam.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Sounds like an absolutely revolting display of poor sportsmanship.

[xstitchcarina]

That sure is not on. I always thought, fans of gymnasts would be supportive of anyones.

I mean, when my dd's club had their club competition last week, I was willing for everyone to stay on. When there was a wobble or something, I was like stay on stay on. That is what I feel a fan of gymnastics is. Of course you can have favorites, but not wanting others to fall off and that.

[Knitted_Fiend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97fQ1nvkKY4

This is my frend Peng, and this drives me INSANE. I CANNOT believe this was allowed. Who would do that to a child??!

[xstitchcarina]

Don't get a video. Don't know what it means exactly, but it says:

The url contained a malformed video id.

[Knitted_Fiend]

I fixed the video link.

[hammy]

What happened to sportsmanship? I hope this doesn't happen at the olympics, but you never know with people these days. The olympics and those that compete are things of great respect.

[teachrugratswga]

I have never seen anything like that that in my life. I watched that video clip, and that was very disturbing. That young girl works hours and hours a day in the gym. She had a bad routine. It happens. For a crowd to "boo" a child like that, is an outrage.

Everyone has gymnasts they like or dislike, but as a fan of gymnastics, you should never "boo" someone who has worked just as hard as everyone else that was at that competition. If that happened at a meet at our gym, the "booers" would be asked to leave, and not ever return to my gym.

Teachrugratswga is absolutely outraged at the poor sportsmanship of that Pan Am crowd!!!!!