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I've never understood the post event sports interview.

"Tell us what it was like out there!"

(Insert huffing and puffing for several seconds between every few words)

Well there's a track with lines on it and I had to run down the track in between those lines and it's not easy because someone put literal hurdles in my way.

"There were a lot of people saying you weren't going to go fast enough, and some people saying you would. Not a single person was saying you would go too fast, though. What are your thoughts on that?"

Well you know there's always a lot of critics who have a lot of thoughts on how am Olympic gymnast should've stuck the landing or a skier should've straightened their turns out more, and then they get up from the couch and a big cloud of Cheeto dust from their shirt blinds 'em and they trip over that couch. People be saying all sorts of things.

"The time you got was good enough to qualify for the finals but not good enough to win and medal. Do you plan to go faster?"

Well now my coach and I have worked on strategy for years leading up to this competition and we've both decided that I should go fast enough to win whenever I race.

"And how did you arrive at that strategy?"

(digging deep) Well basically neither of us are retarded so we are just doing the most obvious thing possible and trying to win.

"Okay well thanks for your time. We'll keep an eagle eye out for you in the track later to see if that strategy of wanting to win by going the fastest pays off or not."

You bet.

Did you know that drinking soda in the morning is only a thing nowadays because of a marketing push done in the late 90s?

After the Cola Wars had ended, the companies realized they had saturated the market and there was little room for growth into new market, so they had to find growth potential with their existing market.

After doing some research, they learned that people almost entirely avoided soda in the morning, seeing it as a lunchtime or later thing.

So they:

• partnered with brunch places to start serving cola with lemon as a standard accompaniment to replace OJ or coffee
• launched a campaign through interest groups to point out how sugary OJ is
• launched a campaign to through interest groups and fake science to demonize coffee
• launched an ad campaign to make it socially acceptable to drink soda in the morning, featuring questions like "Why not grab a Coke to kick off the day?" and depicting people stumbling out of bed to their fridge to chug a soda

They kind of succeeded. There was a huge social stigma back then to drinking soda early in the AM, but not anymore.

Otherwise you are implying that they interfered in Sydney.

Sounds like he was fuckin shit up pretty good heyOOOOOOOO

If Trump were attacking that kind of press, I think you would have a point.

But he's not. Fox is guilty of all those things yet he's very favorable to them. He also had a very good relationship with American Media and, in particular, the National Enquirer, because they agreed to bury stories for him b/c the owner is favorable to Trump.

That, and also they were well justified to not want to support a candidate that was elected for emotional reasons but will go down in American history as one of, if not the, worst president.