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It took NASCAR well over 100 laps to even show his car at Martinsville though I believe they only showed him like two or maybe three times during the whole race. Danica Patrick got 5 times more coverage back in the day despite languishing in mid-pack all the time.

Yeah, I bet there are enough Americans with Hispanic background who can't make the USA team but would easily make some South America country competitive. Same as happens in baseball where Italy, Netherlands & Israel are supposedly doing well only for their rosters to combine 100% from players born & bred in USA & the Carribean Dutch colonies

That's the problem, they will have to get some significant results in order to change the continental quota. The last time curling changed any quota was when Japan was unable to defend their silver medals in 2017 WCh since Asia only had two places in the tournament and now they have three to accomodate China, South Korea and Japan. Not to mention there are always fewer teams at Olympics than WChamps. I don't think we'll see Guyana in curling at WOG anytime in the XXI century tbh.

Guyana at the Olympics in curling? Hmm... as long as Canada and USA suffocate all the quota for Americas I don't see anyone else qualifying from that region whatsoever. Btw, I don't seem to recall Guyana fielding a team sport in Olympic Games history? Summer Games, let alone Winter!

Yeah, it seems like Djokovic thinks he's bigger than ATP. However there's too much money being lost elsewhere so they could well roll without him.

And I'm gonna refuse to watch Disney films. That's also human rights or not? Btw, BBC censored Michael Jackson's music based on these pedophilae accusations so it's not exactly a fallacy like you say https://www.forbes.com/sites/guymartin/2019/03/03/the-leaving-neverland-fallout-bbc-decides-to-nix-michael-jacksons-catalog-from-radio-play/#3acad0573622

People simply grow up. If not then you end up like Michael Jackson - from pop icon to pedophilae accusations

Who the hell watches Disney movies anyway? Once you graduate from high school, this stuff should be ignored. I find it strange when adults watch stuff intended for teenagers

I was expecting Haecki to make the jump by year 3-4 on World Cup and I feel like her first two seasons were actually better. Maybe it's the expectations but she's had a number of very bad days. Kamila Zuk is the perfect example where junior success can't quite make the difference in seniors, I mean Marketa Davidova was her main rival back in junior and she's doing a lot better overall in World Cup. And there is pressure on Davidova with Koukalova and Vitkova gone. Haecki should be having Davidova-like results but she doesn't.

Since the "We'll never apologize for America" shtick is very much a common theme for US Presidents for over 50 years, it's pretty obvious why USA will never join ICC. Someone is fighting another lose cause

Vojthas is definitely not named Matthew

Selina Gasparin is 36 years old, she will probably retire after Beijing OG. The "rise" of the Swiss women's team has an expiration date and Lena Haecki has been extremely frustrating to watch the past couple of years. When she had a bad day then it's really bad. I talked about Raubichi making the most of the Russian venues blacklisting and Nove Mesto has a chance to be carried by Marketa Davidova even with Koukalova and Vitkova gone.

I just don't see Beach Wrestling as Olympic sport. Russia and Middle East countries have enough money to influence IOC's decision Asia is a desired market for anyone so any Asian-strong sports like badminton are here to stay as well.

Wrestling has a long history in Eastern Europe, ex-USSR and Middle East. It's gonna be extremely tough to remove it from the Olympics as it's also one of the ancient classics. There was an uproar when they tried to get rid of it already so I just don't see that happening. Thankfully wrestling is big in US high-schools and college so I don't suppose USA will push to get rid of that too much. Golf & tennis are two sports where Olympic gold medal is worth less than a win in Major. These two sports could be easily removed and I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Women's golf being dominated by the South Koreans is another reason USA might wanna look pass it after a while. Then again, golf only got back in 2016 so I suppose it will have to stay for a while yet - unless more big names will openly ignore it like they did in Rio (zika virus was an obvious BS excuse).

I'm talking the future. Races are still closed to the public as we speak so there's nobody to turn away to begin with. Wallace in no Dale Jr or Jeff Gordon. He's not the face of NASCAR and with his results, there's little chance he ever will be.

Will they turn away fans in Confederate gear too? Watch out those empty seats change their mind in the foreseeable future.

If USA hasn't learned a history lesson some 160 years after the Civil War, they will never learn it IMO. Just how long can you wait? I can understand most US people think Africa is a country but re-education on Civil War and slavery in 2020? Like really? What have you been doing the past several decades (other than fighting wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq & Afghanistan)?

It's a by-product of progressive or liberal people being offended by just about anything in return. We live in the entitlement era after all. I tell you, if this was some LGBT show taken down, social media would be burning with anger right now and HBO would be forced to apologize in public. Sweeping Gone with the Wind under the carpet like it's no censorship doesn't hold much ground.

It's not HBO's responsibility to teach history though. We know USA tries to buy themselves a clear consciousness but some one-off description before a single movie ain't gonna do the trick nationwide IMO. Even George Washington was a slave owner and I don't think his statues are going down anytime soon. USA isn't progressive enough for that to happen

We know Hollywood doesn't tell the truth and it's only a dramatised version of events. If US people treat Hollywood movies like the "ultimate and only truth" then it's a bigger problem and has little to do with the subject itself. Ted Bundy & Charles Manson are on the rise again and I wonder how many people thought about watching the Tarantino movie and the Zac Efron role that these guys maybe weren't that bad after all. Hollywood & US media in general have a long history of glorifying crime & murder so I don't expect censoring Gone with the Wind will have any significant impact on how the slavery is viewed IMO.

Don't you teach about Civil War & Reconstruction in schools? I would have thought it's a very important there especially that USA doesn't have a long history so you don't have to bother with ancient & medieval era like in European history classes. Gone with the Wind is too well known for trying to spin this "history lesson" excuse IMO. If HBO had taken down some LGBT-themed show with no-name actors involved then social media would be raging mad about censorship. It's not that hard to imagine people are upset with censoring Gone with the Wind here IMO.

Yeah, like when those Medals of Honor awarded for the Wounded Knee massacre will be revoked? My answer: NEVER Well, you still got a problem since the two-party system prevents any reasonable "third way" in US politics Bernie Sanders might have won the elections on twitter but not in real life

Yeah, Gone with the Wind is politicially incorrect it seems Americans have no idea how to accept their slavery past so it seems like they figured out they will pretend it never existed? Btw, only Catholic churches will be burned down, if you burn down a mosque then you'll be labelled as anti-semitic

All fine and dandy but Democrats are more divided than anyone with their useless "moderate" vs "progressive" battle. This actually helps Trump the most.

Camden has 53% black population, 30% Latinos and only 16% whites (that was 2000 Census). So there's a bigger chance most of the criminals will be non-whites and that's exactly what supposedly confirms there's a racism inside the police. I can tell you what the racial make up of arrests will look like - most of them will be non-white and progressive people will scream "racism" all over the news