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"I just told her I didn't respect her as a competitor," Navarro said of the exchange, per AFP. "I think she goes about things in a pretty cut-throat way. It makes for a locker room that doesn't have a lot of camaraderie, so it's tough to face an opponent like that, who I really don't respect."

"She told me she doesn't know how I have a lot of fans," Zheng said. "It looks like she's not happy with my behavior toward her. If she's not happy about my behavior, she can come and tell me. I would like to correct it to become a better player and a better person."

Zheng clarified that she wasn't upset by Navarro's words. "I'm glad that she told me that," Zheng continued. "I will not consider it an attack because she lost the match."

this is one of three times a US tennis player has acted like a sore loser in the past several days:

Danielle Collins scratches her match due to "injury" as she was losing. After her Polish opponent congratulated her on her career, Collins calls her "insincere" before walking away. She then played doubles 2 hours after her supposed injury.

Coco Guaff argues with chair umpire after losing to Croatia, says "this always happens to me" while crying. (i think some people are debating if her gripe was somewhat fair, but i feel like implying the judge is always out to get you is definintely doing too much. at least she didn't disrespect her opponent 🤷)

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[-] engineer@hexbear.net 119 points 2 months ago

Emma Navarro is the daughter of billionaire Ben Navarro owner of subprime Credit card specialist Credit One Bank.

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 88 points 2 months ago

lmao holy shit i though the comment in the video was like a joke or hyperbole 😭

honestly i already just assumed most of the US team are nepo babies whose parents afford top of the line private training

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 months ago

Well, it's tennis, so yes

But also generally yes for other sports

It's going to of course be incredibly rare for a teen or early 20 year old, the peak for a lot of these sports, to come from poverty and compete at the Olympics. It requires training from young childhood that parents in poverty simply cannot afford, proper nutrition to ensure the kid grows up as healthy and strong as possible, guaranteed free time especially as they hit later teens and 20s the ability to never need to work a job, and other stuff like buying the best and proper equipment, travel costs to compete, etc.

Maybe someone should tell the hogs if they want to win all the gold medals they gotta provide the basic needs for every citizen and offer fully free, government sponsored training for the most athletic kids to get to the Olympic level.

We tried to create a society of super elite athletes and, oops, we got communism! Oh no!

[-] iie@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago

that should be an automatic loss

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

Maybe she’s sad that her dad will probably be shot one day

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 85 points 2 months ago

The nationalism among the US population is absolutely insane right now and the only people that can see it are communists. Even a chunk of the people calling themselves anarchists are incredibly nationalistic.

Combine this with the literal infantilisation of the population that has been deliberately performed turning them all into overgrown children and this behaviour is the result. They pick up their ball and stomp off home when they're losing because they can't process anything other than the notion that they should automatically win.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago

Can't wait for the 2028 Olympics that will take place in LA.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

There's going to be a lynching of an athlete

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Or the US world cup in 26 lol

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 75 points 2 months ago

Americans aren't good at sportsmanship and suck at losing.

Australia has this problem too.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago

wojak-nooo good sportsmanship is a communist plot!!

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They're gunna try and character assassinate Pan Zhanle for winning the 100m free the same way they went after Sun Yang. Australians think they own the pool

Edit: probably better to say they are already going after Pan in the same manner, but my man's unflappable

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Skill issue smh

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Americans aren't good ~~at sportsmanship~~ and suck ~~at losing~~.

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

westoid issue

[-] iie@hexbear.net 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't remember this many news stories about bigotry and poor sportsmanship in past olympics, is it just me?

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe something has changed, but if it's anything I think it's just the fact that it is now easier to push back against the propaganda of the west, or people have gotten better at it.

"The USSR women are so roided up they've become men" was a common accusation back when the soviet union still existed. That and stereotypes of children being driven like cattle and grown in vats, as if the US is any better

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[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago

most cooked olympics since 1936

[-] lil_tank@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

French gastronomy chefs-kiss

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

no idea, i imagine it's not really something western mainstream media would report much on, i only found out because i'm following that chinese netizen tiktoker

i wouldn't have even known there were two more examples if i didn't lose the video and try to find it again by searching "american tennis player sore loser" just for three different cases from the past week to pop up lmfao

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

I think we've been reaching a fever pitch for far right nationalist movements in a lot of the "west" fairly quick over the last couple of years, notable that the big whiners all have a openly anti-immigrant nationalist party either in power or as the opposition.

Consider that there are two boxers in the Olympics that were banned by the IBA, but only the one that knocked out the Italian one is a news story.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Holy fuck, America, please, at least one American actually, can't ask it of everyone, have a shred of dignity and or self respect. Like, damn, you know the image that's been projected pretty much for.the last decade had been of a pathetic whiny dysfunctional adult baby? I'm Canadian and I can see that internationally America is that 4chan co-worker who you have to humor cause of his mass shooter energy who is almost 40 and won't shut up about bakugan. Just absolute unstable losers, the kid at the playground who realized he could keep being cringe if he was super violent and would keep Naruto running well into high school cause he hospitalized a kid in 2nd grade for saying Mankey wasn't the best pokemon. The energy of the absolute worst dweeb who became a permanent Wal mart employee who lives at home until 50 but thinks they're hot shit cause they run that electronics section with an iron fist. Fuck America and fuck Americans, nation of redditor danger geeks. A country of punishers

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 68 points 2 months ago

who is almost 40 and won't shut up about bakugan

Like half the trans women here (and like 30% of the site) just got hit with the wildest of strays

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

No idea what that is and I'm not looking it up. blob-no-thoughts

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[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago

Holy fuck, America, please, at least one American actually, can't ask it of everyone, have a shred of dignity and or self respect

If we're talking about the Olympics, Simone Biles and Suni Lee seemed pretty cool and had good sportsmanship

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 54 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah i honestly really love simone, especially with how open she is with mental health struggles

a lot of reactionaries including JD Vance called her "weak and selfish" and practically acted like she committed treason for dropping out of the 2020 olympics due to mental health. her anxiety literally caused her to lose control mid-air and almost not land on her feet, which could've easily left her paralyzed

after winning yesterday she posted a "mental health matters" thing with her meditating before performing. she said she'd been "shaking" from anxiety at the olympic village, and went to therapy hours before getting gold. genuinely felt inspired hearing how she overcomes anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma from sexual abuse (larry nassar, the US gymnastics team' doctor who had assaulted over 200 women and girls)

[-] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

mad respect to her, thanks for sharing

[-] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you look at her Wikipedia page, it uses three different sources for hateful comments in "Russian state-owned media", and nothing dedicated to stuff at home...

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

insane, she was literally being attacked on fox news while the deputy AG of texas called her a "childish, selfish national embarrassment" and the lieutenant governor of NC called her a "weak little gymnast" and a "quitter." charlie kirk straight up called her a "selfish sociopath and a shame to the country" while conservatives ran headlines like this:

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Yes, but certainly not exclusively. This is a notch on the whiny ass loser behavior board and yall seem less scary each time you do shit like this.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

I'm Canadian

farquaad-point

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 71 points 2 months ago

the average american has the demeanor of the bully character in a disney channel original movie

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Oops all 80's sports movie villain bully characters

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 63 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile the Koreas and China are being super friendly to each other getting selfies and such.

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[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago

The Olympics is the highest level of competition and takes a ton of training and talent to even be considered eligible even if you’re a rich brat like this yank. It would be a different situation if the Chinese player was cold in every situation, but who wouldn’t be cut throat DURING the match?

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 47 points 2 months ago

You can see where the israelis get their attitude from

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

THEY TRIED TO WIN A COMPETITION ;_;

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago

The global South is getting better at gaming the Olympics system and its making the west piss and shit and maybe cry a little bit

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

hope your next burger is overcooked and has too much ketchup on it :cry-ab-it:

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

Americans and throwing temper tantrum when they fucked around and got found out never stops being hilarious to me.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago
[-] Civility@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago
[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

crazy how many Olympic/elite level US tennis players are born-rich, entitled nepobaby jocks with wretched personalities.

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