"I just told her I didn't respect her as a competitor," Navarro said of the exchange, per AFP. "I think she goes about things in a pretty cut-throat way. It makes for a locker room that doesn't have a lot of camaraderie, so it's tough to face an opponent like that, who I really don't respect."
"She told me she doesn't know how I have a lot of fans," Zheng said. "It looks like she's not happy with my behavior toward her. If she's not happy about my behavior, she can come and tell me. I would like to correct it to become a better player and a better person."
Zheng clarified that she wasn't upset by Navarro's words. "I'm glad that she told me that," Zheng continued. "I will not consider it an attack because she lost the match."
this is one of three times a US tennis player has acted like a sore loser in the past several days:
Danielle Collins scratches her match due to "injury" as she was losing. After her Polish opponent congratulated her on her career, Collins calls her "insincere" before walking away. She then played doubles 2 hours after her supposed injury.
Coco Guaff argues with chair umpire after losing to Croatia, says "this always happens to me" while crying. (i think some people are debating if her gripe was somewhat fair, but i feel like implying the judge is always out to get you is definintely doing too much. at least she didn't disrespect her opponent 🤷)
I don't remember this many news stories about bigotry and poor sportsmanship in past olympics, is it just me?
Maybe something has changed, but if it's anything I think it's just the fact that it is now easier to push back against the propaganda of the west, or people have gotten better at it.
"The USSR women are so roided up they've become men" was a common accusation back when the soviet union still existed. That and stereotypes of children being driven like cattle and grown in vats, as if the US is any better
Are you saying it's propaganda that there was a lot op doping among athletes from AES countries?
The propaganda is that the US is accusing other countries of doping, when their athletes are much more likely to engage in doping
This doesn't even touch on the corrupt practices of the the many pro-wester anti-doping agencies.
Wrote some more about it, if you're interested https://hexbear.net/post/3163492?scrollToComments=false