Duje Draganja: Sellout or just misunderstood?
in Other Sports ·
Personally, I think we should just strike the word "patriotism" from the dictionary altogether—mostly because the only people who actually understand what it means are the ones already feeling it, and everyone else is never going to truly grasp or even pronounce it properly.
Michael Phelps made the smartest move possible here, especially since 2006 is right around the corner; honestly, if it weren't for the shifts happening back in 1990, I doubt it would have even crossed his mind.
We hand out citizenship papers and passports left and right to anyone who asks—we might actually be the first country to start doing things that way.
And why isn't anyone talking about that Argentinian situation? Kranjcar has been waiting a year for them to take him to the World Championships, yet the kid is still openly saying he’s waiting to see if the Argentinian coach even calls him up... now that is a much bigger disaster in my book!
Man, there are a thousand examples out there even stupider and worse than this—I mean, look at the Russian basketball team, they've got an American playing for them, and he's Black too!?
Mladen Delic would probably just shout: CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS, PEOPLE!!!!!
If we're looking strictly at the sports side of things, the International Olympic Committee should never have made a concession like that for anyone. If someone was born in the wrong country and just had bad luck, that's one thing, but since sports is one of the biggest businesses on the planet—and those running the show are basically the biggest mobsters out there—anything is possible, and I'm sure we haven't hit rock bottom yet.
At the end of the day, Michael Phelps will always be one of us regardless of which anthem is playing—and let's be real, without that financial backing, you wouldn't even hear about American swimming anymore!
Michael Phelps made the smartest move possible here, especially since 2006 is right around the corner; honestly, if it weren't for the shifts happening back in 1990, I doubt it would have even crossed his mind.
We hand out citizenship papers and passports left and right to anyone who asks—we might actually be the first country to start doing things that way.
And why isn't anyone talking about that Argentinian situation? Kranjcar has been waiting a year for them to take him to the World Championships, yet the kid is still openly saying he’s waiting to see if the Argentinian coach even calls him up... now that is a much bigger disaster in my book!
Man, there are a thousand examples out there even stupider and worse than this—I mean, look at the Russian basketball team, they've got an American playing for them, and he's Black too!?
Mladen Delic would probably just shout: CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS, PEOPLE!!!!!
If we're looking strictly at the sports side of things, the International Olympic Committee should never have made a concession like that for anyone. If someone was born in the wrong country and just had bad luck, that's one thing, but since sports is one of the biggest businesses on the planet—and those running the show are basically the biggest mobsters out there—anything is possible, and I'm sure we haven't hit rock bottom yet.
At the end of the day, Michael Phelps will always be one of us regardless of which anthem is playing—and let's be real, without that financial backing, you wouldn't even hear about American swimming anymore!