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its only a traitor if you were part of what you are traiting on, the us didnt want her, so how can she trait?

they put her on the second list so its still TRAITING

and I would go as far as to say the US snubbed her

Dual-citizenship in the US & Russia

Gainfully employed in Russia

Russia made her a citizen

She didn't make the US team

Plenty of non-US born citizens have played on our Olympic teams instead of their native country's, so why can't she just do the same that we do for dual-citizens who decide to play for the US too?

Not a traitor and if you think this is a big deal, your priorities are messed up considering the politics & steroid abuses related to the Olympic Games. Vote to Cass

Bosoxfan33 said 06/18, 09:17 AM
SHE ONLY WENT TO RUSSIA FOR THE MONEY

So shouldn't you also complain about Dirk Nowitski, Steve Nash, Manu Ginobli, and Tony Parker (as examples) only being in the US for the money instead of playing for the basketball leagues within their native countries?

it's the olympics you are supposed to play for your country.
Dirk Nowitski, Steve Nash, Manu Ginobli, and Tony Parker are playing for a profession in the US and during the olympics they play for their home country.
Becky has no relation to RUSSIA

Why? Many athletes have played for countries not their own because their grandfather or great grandfather or etc was from that country.

The Olympics isn't about competition between nations, its between athletes...she wants to compete and can't for the US, but she is a citizen of another country.

EXactly, you said that athletes compete because of grandparents.

SHE HAS NO RELATION AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Other countries have different specifications for foreign athletes to compete on their team...they may not have a blood regulation, but obviously citizenship is enough. Who are you to specify what a nation's rules are for determining who can play for them?

SHE HAS NO RELATION AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bosoxfan33 | 06/18/08, 09:57 AM

I can point to SEVERAL athletes on the US Olympic soccer team (in the last few Olympics) who had NO BLOOD relation to the US (only citizenship) that competed for the US

Did you watch the "OUTSIDE THE LINES" report

Nope and don't care.

Benedict Arnold, the Rosenbergs, & John Walker Lindh are traitors. People who sell secrets to foreign nations are traitors. To equate playing for another country as being a traitor emphasizes ones' short minded, ignorant views.

Don't dilute the seriousness & disgust of being a traitor through high treason by equating it to sports. Sports is both a business & a celebration of competition between athletes, not nations.

Becky Hammon is hot, she can play for whoever she wants

If she's qualified to play for them, all power to her. Same thing with Mike Piazza playing for Italy in the World Baseball Championships. Who cares? He's not in any way shape or form "Italian", other than having ancestors from Italy. But they let him play for them, and the USA didn't. Same with Becky. Hope she puts up 30 on the USA and shows them how wrong it was to not put her on the team.

There are a lot of athletes who have dual citizenship and have no US blood (Kenyan Runners), and play for the country that will be beneficial ($$$) in the end. Hammon should be allowed to do the same

No, Becky is not a traitor for playing on the Russian team because of her dual citizenship and anyone who says she is, is a maroon.

i agree with Cassy on this. She is not a traitor. The U.S. team would not let her try out only until she had singed to play with the Russians. The US team is at fault here, not Becky Hammon.

If somebody is a maroon are they lost?

I dont like them either Savage, but some people think if they internet yell, people will understand how passionate they are. Or so goes the rumor.