We could do with a little more Olympic wankery, I figured!

NBC reporter attemps to interview Dutch gold medalist Sven Kramer after he won the 5000 meters speedskating event, and starts the interview with the question of who he is, and Sven wants to know if she's stupid.

Comments range from "She got what was coming to her" and "awesome stick it to the dumbass american media!" to "What an arrogant prick. I hope he realizes his 15 minutes of fame won't last long." and "what a douchebag. he doesn't even play a real sport."

I guess skating really really quickly isn't a sport, then. ANYWAY, yesterday, Sven Kramer had to skate again, and is pretty much the expected winner of the 10000 meters.

Until he gets disqualified for moving into the wrong lane. Quite a lot of the commenters, though, would still to talk about whether or not he'd been a rude arrogant douchebag and if the reporter was useless or simply doing her job. And some blame his parents: "I have never said anything so rude to another person, nor did I teach my children to speak to other people that way." and one person thinks Sven's coach should be given the medal, even though the coach was the one who told him to go in the wrong lane: "The GOLD medal should have been given to the coach for putting up with such an arrogant, cocky, mouthy and STUPID kramer"

And then there's some American-bashing: "Could the americans in this article, who didnt check their facts, stick to their own nations webpages and rant about their version of the truth?"

Ohnotheydidnt weighs in on the matter as well but it quickly goes into "he's good-looking enough that he could verbally abuse me and i wouldn't care, so long as i got to slap dat ass" territory. Maybe the skintight suits involved in speedskating bring that out in people.