NBC’s nightly “Olympic Recap” show is so desperate to showcase American female athletes that they’ll even give extensive (replayed) coverage to American women that aren’t even in contention to medal in their respective sport.
Take 10-meter platform diver, Katie Bell, for example. Bell was endlessly praised by the announcers, interviewed days before her dives, all of her dives were shown on primetime TV, and she was also interviewed immediately following her dives…all this, despite the fact that she finished 16[SUP]th[/SUP] out of 18 competitors in the semifinals of that event. Of course, for good measure, the announcers constantly repeated Bell’s foolish and hyper-arrogant quote after being asked about what she thought of her chances in the Olympic 10M platform dive, to which she allegedly responded…
Naturally, instead of actually saying the “s-word” on TV, the announcers kept saying that Miss Bell told them:
“I own this…stuff!’ [Laughter] You can probably imagine what she really said!”
What possessed her, a 24-year old nobody in the world of diving, to utter something so imprudent, and to the media, no less? All that Ebonics-laden audacity, only to finish in 16[SUP]th[/SUP] place? Yeah, she
“owned” it, alright. Another conceited imp with a tremendous lack of class…
CAPTION: Self-Absorbed “Feminine Hero” for American Girls