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Title: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: Tre on June 16, 2008, 05:53:58 AM
Never heard of this commie bitch before today, but do agree that using the free market to make as much money as possible is what Americans do best.  I grew up during the Cold War, though.  As much as I love my Russian friends and neighbors, there's no way (even if I were a top athlete) that I would ever represent Russia in the Olympics Incorporated.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/06/she-stayed-true-her-olympic-dream-now-shes-called-traitor

(http://ngoisao.net/News/The-thao/2006/12/3B9BBBB7/Becky-Hammon---bong-ro.jpg)
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: TrueGrit on June 16, 2008, 05:56:12 AM
I didn't read that article but I would love to come in that sweet mouth of hers, great teeth!
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Tre on June 16, 2008, 05:57:07 AM
I didn't read that article but I would love to come in that sweet mouth of hers, great teeth!

I know a lot of people in her hometown trailer parks would like to punch her in those beautiful teefies! 
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: slaveboy1980 on June 16, 2008, 06:01:37 AM
Never heard of this commie bitch before today, but do agree that using the free market to make as much money as possible is what Americans do best.  I grew up during the Cold War, though.  As much as I love my Russian friends and neighbors, there's no way (even if I were a top athlete) that I would ever represent Russia in the Olympics Incorporated.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/06/she-stayed-true-her-olympic-dream-now-shes-called-traitor

(http://ngoisao.net/News/The-thao/2006/12/3B9BBBB7/Becky-Hammon---bong-ro.jpg)

so what? its up to her.

Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Lurker79 on June 16, 2008, 06:08:12 AM
Ehh...it's a basketball game. Whether she loves her country or not, that's her business. All these idiots who go around saying patriotism is sticking five million flags on your car/house and driving around with a gun rack in the back of your truck...

Now if she were spying/compromising national security...that would be a different story.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Dorian01 on June 16, 2008, 06:09:56 AM
The Olympics are gay and no one cares about them. So she's not a traitor. She hasn't done anything crazy like outing a CIA operative.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: CalvinH on June 16, 2008, 06:17:50 AM
Does she do anal?
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: 240 is Back on June 16, 2008, 06:20:08 AM
Does she do anal?

If she has the parts available, it's always a matter of "WHEN", not IF.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: TrueGrit on June 16, 2008, 06:23:50 AM
Does she do anal?

 I would love to give her gape.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: warchild on June 16, 2008, 06:24:51 AM
Jealousy....she's making a ton of money playing club ball in Russia. Furthermore, we have athletes from all other countries that compete for us and that's been going on for years. This is a non issue
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: CalvinH on June 16, 2008, 06:28:31 AM
If she has the parts available, it's always a matter of "WHEN", not IF.
+



Then who's listening to her talk anyway :D
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: chainsaw on June 16, 2008, 06:50:28 AM
Never heard of this commie bitch before today, but do agree that using the free market to make as much money as possible is what Americans do best.  I grew up during the Cold War, though.  As much as I love my Russian friends and neighbors, there's no way (even if I were a top athlete) that I would ever represent Russia in the Olympics Incorporated.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/06/she-stayed-true-her-olympic-dream-now-shes-called-traitor

(http://ngoisao.net/News/The-thao/2006/12/3B9BBBB7/Becky-Hammon---bong-ro.jpg)

Its a game bro.  Alot of athletes do it, mainly for counties like Israel and African counties in the olympics.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: slaveboy1980 on June 16, 2008, 06:51:49 AM
ahletes are whores.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: slaveboy1980 on June 16, 2008, 07:04:49 AM
Women are whores.

that is already known.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: jaejonna on June 16, 2008, 07:21:57 AM
Thats not LC ?
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: divcom on June 16, 2008, 08:59:46 AM
Never heard of this commie bitch before today, but do agree that using the free market to make as much money as possible is what Americans do best.  I grew up during the Cold War, though.  As much as I love my Russian friends and neighbors, there's no way (even if I were a top athlete) that I would ever represent Russia in the Olympics Incorporated.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/06/she-stayed-true-her-olympic-dream-now-shes-called-traitor

(http://ngoisao.net/News/The-thao/2006/12/3B9BBBB7/Becky-Hammon---bong-ro.jpg)

$95K per yr WNBA All-Star but didnt get an invite to Olympic tryouts.

4yr/$1M package and 4-Star housing in Russia.  Maybe some other endorsement money along the way plus a spot on Russian Team.

I'd say good deal.  You dont let other people live your life since you only have one shot at this s@@t. 
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Purge_WTF on June 16, 2008, 09:10:32 AM
her face tells me she likes to be treated rough and tough.

  It tells me, "I used to be a man."
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: tommywishbone on June 16, 2008, 10:31:34 AM
The Olympics are about marketing yourself & making as much money as possible in a very brief span. More power to her.

PS. It's 2008.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Stark on June 16, 2008, 10:34:07 AM
Traitor... I think she should be stoned.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Stu on June 16, 2008, 10:35:29 AM
Without naked pics this thread is useless....
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Mars on June 16, 2008, 10:36:08 AM
why? did she do it with a brother?
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: m8 on June 16, 2008, 10:37:50 AM
I don't know but I'd fuck her if she begged.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: MCWAY on June 16, 2008, 10:55:55 AM
How is this any different than the guys in baseball, who play for the Dominican Republic when the World Baseball Classic arrives?
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: CQ on June 16, 2008, 11:20:44 AM
I can see how people would be offended, but Olympic teams have been swiping, or trying to swipe, people forever nothing new there.

It's just press as it's pretty unusual for it to be an American playing for Russia. The eastern bloc normally got swiped from, I see they are turning the tables. We had a West Indian sprinter run for them last Olympics also.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Dballn247 on June 16, 2008, 11:48:50 AM
(http://ngoisao.net/News/The-thao/2006/12/3B9BBBB7/Becky-Hammon---bong-ro.jpg)
I'd hit it......twice. 8)
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: G o a t b o y on June 16, 2008, 11:53:39 AM
I've got no problem with anyone playing pro ball anywhere in the world they want, but the Olympics is different.  At the Olympics you are supposed to represent your country.  So yes, she is a traitor.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Tre on June 16, 2008, 01:53:10 PM
I've got no problem with anyone playing pro ball anywhere in the world they want, but the Olympics is different.  At the Olympics you are supposed to represent your country.  So yes, she is a traitor.

Exactly.

It's as if they're telling me that the Cold War was just a right-wing bullshit propaganda campaign. 
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: JohnnyVegas on June 16, 2008, 01:55:26 PM
The Olympics are gay and no one cares about them. So she's not a traitor. She hasn't done anything crazy like outing a CIA operative.

Im with you!

Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Stu on June 16, 2008, 01:58:28 PM
Exactly.

It's as if they're telling me that the Cold War was just a right-wing bullshit propaganda campaign. 

Listen to you with your "Commies" and "Cold War" statements, this is the 21st century Gramps, nobody cares about that shit anymore!
Title: Re: Is she a traitor?
Post by: Tre on June 16, 2008, 02:04:21 PM
... nobody cares...

And that's why this country is going to hell in a (Chinese) handbasket! 
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: tommywishbone on June 16, 2008, 02:15:03 PM
The Cold War?  ;D ;D  Hell, why not bring up the whole "Magna Carta thing." Stupid old document. And what about Rhodesia? Where'd that dumb country go?
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: Ron on June 16, 2008, 02:29:24 PM

This is the Olympics. You represent your country. Or where your parents came from. Simple as that.

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She has no genealogical connection to the country but was granted a Russian passport after signing a seven-figure contract with a professional team in Moscow over the winter.  Financial reasons factored into Hammon's decision to apply for Russian citizenship. There are marketing opportunities in Moscow for a star player with connections to the country.


Great on her contract with a Russian team. Awesome. But to compete in the Olympics? I can't beleive that the Olympics would let their image be tarnished by someone compete for another country when they have zero connections to it.

Hey, so and so country need a good basketball player for the Olympics? Is Kobe for hire? Maybe the Boston Celtics top five players. Just for the Olympics though.

No - this is wrong. And it breaks the Olympics spirit.

But if she a traitor? Did she sell any secrets? Ruin the country? No.... too harsh a word. 

But if the Olympic committee lets this happen, then anything goes soon.
 
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: dantelis on June 16, 2008, 02:31:21 PM
What happen to the good ol' days when countries actually put up athletes to represent them in the Olympics that were born or naturalized citizens of their country only?  Nowadays, countries will recruit and pay the best talent from other countries to be in the Olympics.  It makes the Olympics a joke.

The IOC should put in a restriction that says that athletes can only represent their home country, where they are citizens, with none of that wishy-washy dual citizenship crap.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: Tre on June 16, 2008, 02:34:52 PM
I know that true amateurism is a thing of the past thanks to the Olympics, but does this mean that perennial pro card contenders in the NPC who just cannot get over the hump should go to other countries to compete in their Nationals? 
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: Geo on June 16, 2008, 02:49:19 PM
Never heard of this commie bitch before today, but do agree that using the free market to make as much money as possible is what Americans do best.  I grew up during the Cold War, though.  As much as I love my Russian friends and neighbors, there's no way (even if I were a top athlete) that I would ever represent Russia in the Olympics Incorporated.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/06/she-stayed-true-her-olympic-dream-now-shes-called-traitor

(http://ngoisao.net/News/The-thao/2006/12/3B9BBBB7/Becky-Hammon---bong-ro.jpg)


nobody really pays attention to the olympics anyways....


it's not like it was back in the 60's 70's or even 80's.....


I think interest in olympics fell off drastically when we boycotted Moscow in 1980 just to have the soviets boycott us in 1984
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: CQ on June 16, 2008, 03:06:19 PM
No - this is wrong. And it breaks the Olympics spirit.

But if the Olympic committee lets this happen, then anything goes soon.
 


This has been happening forever. She has the passport, she can play.

This year alone, we have an American playing for Russia. Other ones reported so far are a Polish kayaker, Chinese table tennis player, a Kenyan marathoner who won 2 medals in the 2004 Olympics, New Zealand triathete, former gold medalist Aussie equestrian - will compete for the USA. God knows who else will be flippping sides. Happens each time.

People have complained forever. American athletes complain their spots are taken. Foreign nations have filed complaints about their nationals suddenly appearing on other nations teams. The West Indies have watched our sprinters get poached forever. This story that no one recruits, has been debunked by top athletes reporting being offered large sums & passport to 'defect'. The "Olympic spirit" died way back starting in the 1940's when the Germans put a guy in disguised as a woman in the high jump ::)

[link to some of what I am saying above here (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/sports/olympics/15citizen.html?pagewanted=print)]
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: Camel Jockey on June 16, 2008, 03:11:06 PM
Brutal following Women's basketball

 ::)
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: mass 04 on June 16, 2008, 03:14:13 PM
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM MMMMMMMMM
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: 240 is Back on June 16, 2008, 03:18:52 PM
$95K per yr WNBA All-Star but didnt get an invite to Olympic tryouts.

If they didn't invite her, what's the problem?

She wasn't wanted on her own country's team.


Is she part-russian?  Or just a ringer?
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: Ron on June 16, 2008, 03:21:05 PM
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Is she part-russian?

From what I read, she has nothing to do with Russia at all.


There are other athletes, including a Chinese American that is playing for the US that actually won a medal for China in the past, but she actually lives in the US for years now. That is grossly different than getting a passport because you signed a deal with a team a year ago. Big difference.

Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: Tre on June 16, 2008, 03:23:46 PM
If they didn't invite her, what's the problem?

She wasn't wanted on her own country's team.


Is she part-russian?  Or just a ringer?

She's not Russian at all. 

If she had a Russian grandparent or parent, I wouldn't have an issue with this at all.

Regarding 1980, we should not have boycotted the Games. 
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: CQ on June 16, 2008, 03:39:34 PM
There are other athletes, including a Chinese American that is playing for the US that actually won a medal for China in the past, but she actually lives in the US for years now. That is grossly different than getting a passport because you signed a deal with a team a year ago. Big difference.

Snap out of it Ron :-*

I watched one of our former sprinter medalists, whom I knew full well lived here, appear in the Olympics for some European nation, and come right back here.  Much underhanded stuff goes on. Does anyone really think the biggest sporting event in the world is on the up and up?

The door opened decades ago, with the west poaching the communist nations athletes. We can't shut the door, when we opened it.
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: Tre on June 16, 2008, 04:08:46 PM
Snap out of it Ron :-*

I watched one of our former sprinter medalists, whom I knew full well lived here, appear in the Olympics for some European nation, and come right back here.  Much underhanded stuff goes on. Does anyone really think the biggest sporting event in the world is on the up and up?

The door opened decades ago, with the west poaching the communist nations athletes. We can't shut the door, when we opened it.


But you're in the Caribbean...that's different.  Your country is not commonly involved in wars or major world conflicts. 
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: jtsunami on June 16, 2008, 04:42:21 PM
Good for her, she gets paid more money and this is the time when she has the best oppurtunity to, who cares about playing for the stupid US if they only pay you that.

jt
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: GigantorX on June 16, 2008, 05:36:23 PM
Good for her, she gets paid more money and this is the time when she has the best oppurtunity to, who cares about playing for the stupid US if they only pay you that.

jt

I would rather her get paid money to spread her legs and get fucked like the whore she is......just sayin' :-\
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: CQ on June 16, 2008, 05:48:26 PM
But you're in the Caribbean...that's different.  Your country is not commonly involved in wars or major world conflicts. 

Of course not, we are peaceful people, we don't roll like that 8)

Per normal, I expect to see more West Indian sprinters compete than the West Indies actually sends. Poaching has been happening forever...
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: timfogarty on June 16, 2008, 05:54:58 PM
I know that true amateurism is a thing of the past thanks to the Olympics, but does this mean that perennial pro card contenders in the NPC who just cannot get over the hump should go to other countries to compete in their Nationals? 

Mo Moussawi (http://musclememory.com/show.php?a=Moussawi,+Mohamad)

2000

California Championships - NPC, HeavyWeight, 1st
California Championships - NPC, Overall Winner
Nationals - NPC, HeavyWeight, 9th

2001

Nationals - NPC, HeavyWeight, 16th
USA Championships - NPC, HeavyWeight, 6th

moves to New Zealand, wins their Nationals, although later accused of using steroids (gasp!), still given his pro card, now back in the US
Title: Re: Is she a traitor - Becky Hammon?
Post by: evandatp on June 16, 2008, 07:00:54 PM
Americans should get used to this.

There will increasing numbers of increasingly lucrative sporting offers available in other countries for American athletes before long.