Wake Up

Let it be said that I gave equal time to equal issues. I didn't hear Ryan Lochte fans crying foul when his blinged out grill was the subject of criticism and ridicule. He won five metals in all, two of them Gold,. So you can win a medal and not be beyond reproach. Some people didn't like the way he looked, so they did what people do these days. They took to Twitter and the blogs and made their opinions known. It has nothing to do with his breaststroke, but instead his image. For years to come that's the photo we'll see. Bruce Jenner is still on the Wheaties box almost four decades later.

Considering his popularity among the young people. I heard even less about the Olympic committee refusing to give him his medal if he wore his custom made grill on the podium. Than I did about Gabby Douglass's hair. The officials weren't about  to let him set the stage for his gimmicks outside the games itself. The award ceremony is a tradition in itself. After you leave the podium, how you look is up to you.  They know he is going to get lots of endorsement deals like all high profile medalist. When little white boys and girls  wake up every morning and eat  a bowl of cereal. Daydreaming about being the next Olympic sensation. They don't want them  see a white man with jewelry in his mouth.