Wednesday, February 14, 2018

The Nuclear Winter Olympics, Day 5, Part 2: Do we now have TWO GROUNDS on which to DQ that gold medal out of Shaun White's hands?

  • I had written a different post here on the Shaun White flag controversy -- but when, upon review, I see that White also stepped on the flag as well in disregard, now we've got a serious problem...
Methinks it's time for the USOC to sit down and take some very real stock as to whether that gold medal needs to go back on that point alone.

I had not seen, upon first and live viewing, that he did any more than take it to ground (which, in and of itself, is a huge violation of the Flag Code).  But stepping on it as well crosses the line into "conduct unbecoming" territory, regardless of the circumstances.

At minimum, it's grave disregard.  The USOC needs to consider immediate disqualification on that ground alone -- and then he's got more problems once he gets home...
  • The sexual harassment/#MeToo stuff?  That's something else -- and if that's part of this griping, separate the two, please!  A lawsuit alleges he sexual harassed and threatened Lena Zawaideh, a former drummer in White's band.  Penis pictures, unwanted hardcore porn, probably forced her to drink alcohol underage...  (Yahoo!)
If we're going to go there, and there's no reason not to:  You must then state that, should these allegations be true, White must be disqualified post mortem.  There's no other solution for this -- especially because he became more hostile (it is alleged) to Zawaideh after failing and finishing fourth in Russia four years ago.

He has admitted, I believe, the penis shots, but nothing else.

But this is going to have to be settled, one way or the other.  And if Zawaideh is right about everything, Shaun White needs to lose that gold medal he just won today.  As in full-scale DQ, because he had no business representing the United States or anyone else...

So we now have two possible disqualification avenues for Shaun White.
  • And Barstool Sports is at it again.  Chloe Kim has now been officially declared "a little hot piece of ass" by one of the misogynistic idiots at Barstool.  (Yahoo!)
Patrick Connor, a co-host to Dallas Braden's show on Barstool's Sirius XM channel, made the comment.

And he's another KNBR host too.

When are people going to realize that Barstool Sports is "Get it out and jack it off..."?  Seriously...

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