Voices
DAN
ROSS
HUFFINGTON
08.19.12
What if
Michael
Phelps
Weren’t
American?
WITH SO MANY great story
lines coming out of the 2012
Olympics, from Gabby Gold to
Missy Magic, perhaps the most
fun Olympic sport of them all
was the race to tweet something witty and tag it to #NBCfail. But I would like to propose
another hashtag that I believe
is worth creating in the wake
of this year’s Games: #NewextremesinAmericanjingois-
ILLUSTRATION BY PIETARI POSTI
m2012Olympics.
My primary concern however
is not that we root wildly for the
Red, White and Blue; I’m just
as guilty of that as anyone else.
Rather, it’s that when we lose, we
pout, cry foul or don’t pay attention at all. No example of this was
more troubling than the accusations of doping fired at Chinese
Dan Ross is
a writer and
consultant in
Washington,
D.C.