After badmouthing America at the Olympics, U.S. athletes … underperform on the medal count – Allah's Willing Executioners
After flooding the zone with anti-Trump comments and questioning their own loyalty to the country they were representing at the Olympics, America’s Olympic athletes, so hyped and sure to win in the press … are going low on the medal count.
According to the Wall Street Journal:
MILAN—They came to Italy for a gold rush.
From the downhill course of Cortina to the cross-country tracks of Val di Fiemme and a figure skating rink on the edge of Milan, members of Team USA envisioned themselves spending the entire Olympics on the top steps of podiums. And with the biggest delegation here, they dreamed of a run that would surpass their record 10 gold medals the last time they hosted the Winter Games.
Then came the disastri.
One by one, America’s made-for-TV stars fell short of expectations. Lindsey Vonn crashed. Chloe Kim fell. Mikaela Shiffrin struggled. The most shocking fumble of all came on Friday night when figure skater Ilia Malinin, the self-proclaimed “quad god,” melted down in the …