Dumb Miami Herald sportswriter slags French swimming victory

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This is what passes for Olympics sports coverage???

Embarrassingly stupid, jingoistic article by the Miami Herald's Linda Robertson (article here published also by McLatchy). Her main assignment has been Olympics coverage, but she apparently is completely ignorant that the French have fielded a world class mens swimming squad for the past six or seven years.

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/07/29/2276376/linda-robertson-french-relay-team.html

Linda Robertson: French relay team wins as Lochte beaten on anchor leg

Published: July 29, 2012

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A day after Michael Phelps failed to get on the Olympic medal podium for the first time since 2000 he swam much better. But it didn't matter. Silver in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay doesn't matter. Sounds harsh, but it's true, especially when the U.S. foursome included the two best swimmers in the world.

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What is going on here?

To lose to the French? Who are good at, what? Fencing? Team handball?

No offense, but the nation of Johnny Weismuller, Mark Spitz, Janet Evans and Michael Phelps should not lose the most elemental of relays to the French. Lochte should not be reeled in like a helpless fish by Yannick Agnel, who swam a full second faster.

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1. Moronic writer

Did the writer miss the last Olympics? The one in which the French were favored to win this same relay only to get edged out by Jason Lezak almost the same way Lochte was edged out here? What an idiot.