And Brazilians continue to boo foreign athletes. To the point of tears. As a nation of sports fans and as hosts, that is the face they choose to show the world: booing their guests in athletic competition.
And right here too.
Booing is not something invented and exclusive to third world countries or Brazil for that matter.
Hypocrisy much?
In any case, that fact that booing has happened in previous events I can accept, but that seems a false equivalence. I'm pointing out that to my knowledge, this is the first time it has happened with such vigour and insistence at a world wide sporting event. What is the point of the Olympics if not to overcome partisanship in the name of good sportsmanship? A lot of the Brazilian fans' behaviour seems to come from the worst of futbol hooliganism, which no-one could seriously defend, and their booing of Argentinians in particular shows an unwillingness to rise above regional rivalries even for the Olympics.
I find it quite disturbing accusing Brazilians of "booing" at sports event when you could and can see this in events such as US Open, Wimbledon and other "clean and gentlemany" sports when the opponent is from some other country than US or UK. Let's not get into more "dirtier" sports now where booing is de facto standard.
What exactly do you want to see from me that you can't find yourself?
Unless there was violence why would you even care?
It seems like the true competitors eat that stuff up. Is it just the difference between professionals and amateurs?