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2003-06-06 Europe

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-06-06 04:47 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't follow tennis *at all*, so it may very well have eluded me, but I don't remember getting much mention of booing in the news. That's really low, especially when you add the fact that tennis-goers are supposed to be the "classiest" sport fans around, given their middle-class-and-above base. Still, our PC-obsessed media may have been furthermore embarassed by the idea of an overhelmingly white crowd cheering over the defeat of a black foreign athlete; sometimes, keeping one's moral highground above the Racists, Chauvinists Americans (Tm) is not that easy.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-06-06 06:09:38|| 2003-06-06 06:09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I suppose it was because of this:
Williams certainly did not endear herself to Paris with the comments she made in March.
Asked about anti-French feeling in the United States, a snickering Williams mimicked a French accent and said: "Well, we don't want to play in the war. We want to make clothes. We don't want the war."

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-06-06 07:36:16|| 2003-06-06 07:36:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Go get 'em Lance....

Posted by ----------<<<<-- 2003-06-06 08:27:12|| 2003-06-06 08:27:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, I don't think she could have expected a warm welcome after such an attitude.

I believe there were several more Americans taking part in the French Open. (Venus Williams, Meghann Shaughnessy, Monica Seles) Any indication whatsoever *those* people were booed?

In short, it's probably not because of her nationality *or* her race.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2003-06-06 08:32:35|| 2003-06-06 08:32:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I'd forgotten her earlier observations. I guess it's just that good ol' McCarthyism at work again..

Posted by Anonymous 2003-06-06 08:51:26|| 2003-06-06 08:51:26|| Front Page Top

#6 That was me above, btw.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-06-06 08:54:53|| 2003-06-06 08:54:53|| Front Page Top

#7 It's unfortunate that it happened, but all I have to do is think about all the ass that she and Lance have kicked in France, and I smile again.

Posted by Mike N. 2003-06-06 13:56:14|| 2003-06-06 13:56:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, look at the bright side....there are bound to be a few reversals when you wrestle with weasels. They fight dirty, you know.......

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-06-06 15:23:47|| 2003-06-06 15:23:47|| Front Page Top

#9 she'll be back. and i love her comment "i just have to be a little stronger next time." with that attitude, she'll definitely be back.

Posted by (lowercase) matt 2003-06-06 16:15:15|| 2003-06-06 16:15:15|| Front Page Top

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