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Sept. 12 2008
The Olympics are over, it’s time to move on So the Olympics are over. The medals are awarded, winners returned home and yet we still want to complain. We brought home the most medals, having 110 total, but we want more. Our gymnastics team received silver medals to the Chinese that they believe should be gold because of age. We argue that they are too young and should not be allowed to compete, but come on. Can’t we just get over the fact we lost to the Chinese in something? Of course not, we want to be better. We want more gold. I watched gymnastics every time it was on. The Chinese girls were amazing. They stuck every landing and trick, made everything look so easy and proved to be Olympians. The Games are supposed to bring the world together, everyone of all ages. Then why put an age limit on a competition that is to show you are the best in the world? Gymnastics is causing way too much drama. When you are good, you are good and age should not matter. Even if the results
Meghan Lamberth
Athlete of the Month
come out and they are too young, China’s gymnasts should keep their medals. They might be underage but they won. Judges voted fairly and everyone knows they are better. Honestly, if we can’t get over the fact we lost then it doesn’t make us any better than the Chinese allowing younger girls to participate. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for the US winning medals and being the best they can be. But that doesn’t mean we should take medals away from anyone that is too young to compete when they were already giving higher scores than everyone else. What happens if they turn out to be the right age? It makes us look like idiots and desperate for gold. Or if we would have won gold and they got silver, we wouldn’t care. So why care now? Okay, so Nastia Liukin becomes first in the world at an event instead of second. Would it really make her feel that much better about herself? She would still know that she was beat by someone younger than her proving she truly isn’t the gold medalist.
That goes the same for the whole team. If the Chinese are too young and US gets the all around team gold, it really wouldn’t be gold because they would know there is a team out there that is better. But competing in the Olympics is a huge reward in itself. Saying you won a silver medal is a lot more than most of the athletes at the Olympics can say they achieved. Most don’t even make it out of preliminaries, let alone make the finals. What is next? Are we going to say not only do you have to be a certain age but now you can only represent the country you were born in? If you think about it, the Olympics began as a way to put aside political and religious differences. Not just those differences but to put aside all the arguing for a couple of weeks. This event that takes place only once every four years is supposed to build a stronger world. Yet we want to be immature and act like 5-year-olds fighting over a toy just to win another gold. Anyone who goes to the Olympics is a winner just for making it that far. A gold
Co-Sports Editor
H eroes ARE
Remembered Nina Walters medal isn’t going to make a difference weeks after the events are over. Either way, too young or old enough, the Chinese gymnasts proved they were meant to be victorious. So we need to get over the fact we might have lost to girls younger than us. To be an Olympian you need to accept defeat and be thankful for the opportunity of a lifetime. So if the US gymnastics team wants the gold that bad, I will go and personally make them gold medals like the ones given out and present them myself.
Pitcher returns for another round at State Nina Walters, Co-Sports Editor
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Q: When and how did you know this was the sport for you?
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