Update: Joe Hoft posted an article with the names and description of the selection committee. You should check it out. It looks like the decision could have been racist sprinkled with some jealousy, which was obvious from the beginning. This is a world class game and they are playing games like this.
There is an outcry over Caitlin Clark’s exclusion from the Olympic team while Brittney Griner was included. People see politics entering the Olympics, but I suggest politics entered the Olympics years ago. I wouldn’t be so concerned about Griner as the fact that Clark was left out.
Caitlin Clark has been excluded from the women’s Olympic team.
Brittney Griner, who wouldn’t stand for the US National Anthem, made the team.
Who else thinks this was intentional? pic.twitter.com/cHIR7YiHtg
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) June 8, 2024
Dave Portnoy is very unhappy.
He wants to know how dumb, Brain-dead, and Idiotic the people running this are. His biggest point is, who will watch the sport without Caitlin Clark, one of the most popular players in the world?
Dave said he’d rather see grass grow than watch this sport in the Olympics because Caitlin Clark isn’t in it.
Rant incoming. – leaving Caitlin Clark off the women’s Olympic team is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard pic.twitter.com/RXg0XwFwtN
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 8, 2024
Clark has made more 3-pointers this season in the WNBA than any woman selected to the Olympic team.
CBS Sports reported:
Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark is expected to be left off the Team USA women’s basketball roster for the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris, David Eickholt of 247Sports confirms.
USA Today’s Christine Brennan first reported shortly after midnight Saturday.
Clark became the college basketball all-time leading scorer earlier this year, and she is currently putting up some impressive numbers in the WNBA.
… Clark has also already put up two 30-point games — one of them being during the Fever’s 85-83 win over the Washington Mystics in which she reached a career-high seven 3-pointers. With that performance, Clark became the fastest rookie in WNBA history to record 200+ points and 50+ assists.
One of Clark’s nemeses, Aja Wilson, made it.
The community notes give a different picture.
Getting a spot on the U.S. Olympic basketball team is about merit [hmmm]. Given Caitlin Clark’s short time in the WBNA (5 games), she would likely be chosen. The shortest WBNA games played before getting an Olympic team sport was 26, by Breanna Stewart.
Another note claims several experts in women’s sports, including Jemele Hill and Sarah Spain (ESPN reporter), assert that Olympic roster spots are earned through consistent performance rather than popularity or social media presence. Caitlin Clark has only played five professional WBNA games.
Jemele Hill is one of the biggest racists in sports. That is the rap against Caitlin Clark – she’s white. She’s also heterosexual.
Are a racist and an ESPN reporter experts?
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And we’ll all be supporting whoever plays AGAINST this DEI olympics team. I wonder if they’ll be taking a knee again when the US national anthem is played? Megan Rapinoe the sequel.
Several different results come back but most of them are within a few points of each other when you search:
What are the US percentages by race?
I normally prefer NFL football with my yearly punishment of another disappointing season with the Cowboys but I’m in front of the TV for the next week to watch the NBA Finals with the Dallas Mavs.
I just like a good game with the best of the best on the court, on the field or on the pitch.
I could care less about someone’s skin color so long as they are putting points on the board for my team.
Someone said last night this makes the 6th time one of the players is going to the Paris Olympics and she is 41 years old.
That would make for a fun game, one on one with Caitlin Clark vs. the old washed up hag.
But if you are going to put race (12.2%) on the table then sure I’ll play by not paying to see your franchise play.
These people are primarily morally corrupt haters, they are anti-white and anti-heterosexual. Calling them stupid shows weakness by the critic. It gives them an excuse based on a disability. It is all too common for decent people to make excuses for the left.