Anyways, my problem is that some athletes are allow and others are not allow to show those emotions! I’m talking about gymnastics and the bias towards the Russian or any other girls from other countries compare to the Americans girls. You see an American girl crying and you will hear “poor girl she is disappointed” or “It is understandable” or “she was cheated.” The Russians “crybabies” or from the fans “bitches.”

Look how people made Maroney’s behavior into a joke. If she would have been a Russian girl everyone would have crown her the biggest bitch in the world.

So yeah, I would say that you are right. Athletes can afford to act human because the media and the internet doesn’t forgive anyone with the exception of some American athletes.

But clearly you don’t understand the perception of athletes. The only emotions they are supposed to have is intensity! No crying cause you lost, or being pissed cause a ref made a bad call . Media coverage blows the tiniest things into full blown scandals and the respective leagues and associations crack down hard on “behavior unbecoming” which is why athletes have to sit back and smile and shake hands and make overly bland and sterile statements.

Ovechkin on the bench during play gets mad and for half a second losses judgement and gets caught on camera. Blown into a full scandal that lasted weeks. Now he has the perception of being a head strong disrespectful coach killer and doesn’t follow systems (even though he completely did under Hunter). Crosby makes a comment about the reffing (which is always questionable) and does his captain’s job of talking to them in game and is billed as a cry baby across the league and by fans. We gave out pacifiers in the playoffs for him!

Its not like athletes can apologize or control the way people view these tiny microcosms cause the internet just don’t give a shit. The media looks for these things cause they sell ads, the fans eat it up cause athletes don’t give us much else to add to our fantasy rivalries.

I’d say Paseka has a bad attitude too, she’s been mean on VK honestly. I get that she’s disappointed with bronze but what did she expect, Mckayla’s Amanar trumps hers a million times over.

Anyways, I called it bad attitude because she was clearly piss and it is understandable, but letting your anger and disappointment insult others it is not. Of course, it is not a big deal because she is just a gymnasts and everyone makes mistakes, but my problem is the bias from those “fans” and how differently they took her reaction compare to the Russians crying.

Calling the Russians bitches for crying and making Maroney’s bad attitude in to a joke.

That definitely makes sense.