Alicia Sacramone Was Robbed
Posted August 18th, 2008 in All, Commentary, Entertainment, Sports and TV Moment of the Weak
Olympic gymnasts Alicia Sacramone of the U.S. and Cheng Fei of China battled it out on the vault.
Two Olympic athletes’ website profiles were far ahead of the rest of the pack in terms of internet hits today - Michael Phelps, with his record 8 gold medals; and Alicia Sacramone, the gymnast who fell twice in the team finals, earning much of the blame for the American team missing out on the gold. Because as much as Americans love a champion, we L.O.V.E. an underdog. So we were pulling for Alicia tonight in the women’s vault finals. Unfortunately for Alicia, Olympic bias reared its ugly head, leading us to wonder which is worse; losing to a fetus, or losing to a fetus who clearly landed out of bounds on her own vault? China’s Cheng Fei was awarded a 15.562, ousting Sacramone, after a vault landing which our TiVO swears was out of bounds…
