Joyanna Adams

Affirmative Olympic Action

“Okay…what happened?” I thought. The most I could make out is only two girls could go to the finals, so the girls on the American team were fighting each OTHER for the right to go on to compete for the big enchilada, the big Kahuna, the big endorsements…etc.

Being the conspiracy (Where’s there’s smoke there’s somebody’s raging fire) Nobody that I am, I instantly thought…Okay they had to get rid of our best American gymnast in order to let the Chinese win.

Why do I think this way? Because I’ve seen Affirmative Globalization in action. I get my cynicism from going to too many inventors’ conventions, where I saw one fabulous American invention after another be totally ignored in contests where our American University snobs gave big prizes to Chinese students whose inventions weren’t even shown.

But my curiosity overwhelmed me, so I stayed up till 3 am just to see what had happened, and found out there was an entirely different reason behind it.

Now, I’m not one to know the points of every mistake, BUT…the lovely and lively black girl, Gabby Douglas, on her floor exercise, made one of the biggest bloopers I’ve ever seen. She overshot a tumbling run, and stepped widely out of the lines, took more than a few steps, and the judges…gave her a pretty good score.

Up comes the strongest gymnast, Jordyln Wieber, and she does her floor routine, and steps her heel out after a tumbling run…just a smidgen of an inch. For that, the judges killed her.

So, Gabby, who we heard time and time again from the commentators, could destroy a team when she was having a bad night got to go…and nobody dared question the unfair and ridiculous high score given to a black young and upcoming superstar gymnast who will certainly inspired millions of little black girls in the states. Affirmative action  of the “elites” is alive and well in the Olympics.

Now…watch China win.

Here’s the official report.

Even though the Americans had three of the top four qualifiers, only the top two gymnasts from each team advance. Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas will compete in the individual all-around final on Thursday. Wieber’s consolation is that she qualified for the floor exercise final. Her personal coach, John Geddert, said in a statement, “She has trained her entire life for this day, and to have it turn out anything less than she deserves is going to be devastating.

Douglas, who remains a favorite in the all-around, said the team would rally around Wieber while seeking the gold medal. But she said it would be “definitely kind of a little awkward.”

She took a moment to think about what she would say to Wieber, knitting her eyebrows as if deep in thought, but even the chatty Douglas could not come up with anything.

“Um, I’m still working on that,” she said.

Bela Karolyi, Martha Karolyi’s husband and the coach of the last United States team to win an Olympic gold medal, said Wieber was cheated out of a spot in the all-around, calling it “a lineup mistake” by the personal coaches.

July 30, 2012 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Affirmative Action, olympics, Uncategorized | Affirmatve Action, Gynastics, Olympics | Leave a comment