We have done a poll in a while. Election time poll weariness. Both readers and Groksters. But this seemed like a good opportunity to do one. A wealthy, accomplished athlete gets political on the podium and disses her nation and its flag.
Not a good look, so why would she go anywhere to represent us?
Related: Poll Question – Should Flag-Hating Millionaire Athlete Gwen Berry Be Kicked off the US Olympic Team?
And c’mon, man, at least pretend.
She couldn’t do it. This very successful woman of color who rode the American Dream to financial and professional success played the victim card.
That’s the essence of the matter at hand. And the poll went national. We had thousands of page views as readers checked in from across the country. The right issue at the right time?
Just over 500 of them took the time to take the poll (509).
97.45% said yes, she should be kicked off the team and not allowed to represent the US in the Olympics.
2.55% said no.
Multiple sites have since posed a similar conclusion summed up in these comments from our original poll question post.
A few comments?
If a person goes to the Olympics, they go to represent their country. If she doesn’t respect our country, I’m sure other countries would be happy to accept her as a citizen.
The whole point of the Olympics is for each country to send their best to represent that specific country. If she is unwilling to respectfully do that, she has no business competing for the USA, a country which granted her (and anyone else who wants to work hard) every opportunity to be where she is. Somebody needs to sit her down and ask her what other country would she be so successful in?
Kick her off the team! Now!
Kicked out of the country and sent to the African country whose genetic profile she best matches. Citizenship revoked. Oh, and her money? All in cash, with the locals pre-informed of the arrival of their long-lost rich relative.
No love lost there.
