I guess it’s a bad culture where the country expects gold, anything less is a failure.
Terrible mentality but I guess when you’ve been winning all the time, you expect this to be the norm.
Reminds me of the article this morning I read about China and how they feel they let their country down by getting sliver. Wasn’t helped by the internet trolls either.
See Piers Morgan on twitter since the beggining of the Olympics. Has been strong on his stance that 'silver is the first loser' kind of stuff. Obviously the replies to him have gone both ways. He also thinks that nobody has cared about this Olympics and it should have been cancelled.
Well, there's a very strong argument that it should have been cancelled, as there's a bit of a bug going round, but we're all pretty emotionally invested now.
I guess it’s a bad culture where the country expects gold, anything less is a failure.
Terrible mentality but I guess when you’ve been winning all the time, you expect this to be the norm.
Reminds me of the article this morning I read about China and how they feel they let their country down by getting sliver. Wasn’t helped by the internet trolls either.