Here’s a quick test.
Quiz 1. What country won the first gold medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics? What is the medalist’s name? What event did the athlete participate in?
Quiz 2. Who is the ONLY summer Olympian to win 6 medals in 6 consecutive Olympics? Okay a hint. This Olympian is the ONLY athlete ever to win Olympic medals on 5 different continents. And again, what country does this athlete represent?
Quiz 3. Who is the medalist with 2 gold medals in 2 consecutive Olympics, holding both the Olympic and Wold records, and is called “The Worlds Greatest Athlete”? What country does this athlete represent?
Easy, right? How many did you get right?
If you missed any the athletes are:
- Ginny Thrasher, Team USA, Gold Medal, 10m air rifle
- Kim Rhodes, Team USA, Bronze Medal, Skeet
- Ashton Eaton, Team USA, Gold Medal, Decathlon
I suspect most people have never heard of these athletes. The US media ignores the achievements of all of these great athletes.
For Ginny Thrasher and Kim Rhodes I believe the media and sponsors ignore both of them because their events involve guns. Plain and simple the liberal progressive media hates guns and the Constitution. Why is it that in the “progressive” world where it’s supposed to be about empowering women and minorities, these ladies are ignored? There were a bunch of Hollyweird “celebrities” who were bashing 19 year old college student Ginny Thrasher after she won gold. Hillybob praised women who wore burkas at the Olympics but made no mention of the hard work and achievements of Ginny and Kim. In fact it was the same day that Ms. Thrasher won gold that Hillybob was praising the burka wearers.
Ashton Eaton is another anomaly. He’s the world and Olympic record holder, and twice Gold Medalist in decathlon, and almost no one knows his name. Okay this may offend some readers, but I feel that Mr. Eaton is ignored because, “He ain’t white and he don’t look black neither”. Not what Madison Avenue wants to promote. Did he get a cereal box deal? Bruce Jenner did when he won gold in the same event. Jenner was all over the news and had million$ in endorsement deals. I recall a front page picture of Jenner in the Los Angeles (Tass) Times.
Praise (and dollars) only goes to those who fit the “progressive” agenda. Go figure.