The USA doesn’t have the market cornered on pushy, obnoxious sports parents.
Norwegian Martin Johnsrud Sundby tried his best at Friday’s 15k classic in Sochi, NBC reports. But it wasn’t good enough.
Given the opportunity to offer her progeny a little motherly comfort, his mother spit on the Olympic spirit instead.
“You’re the worst Norwegian,” she said. “You should go home.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins