Caitlin Clark might not be the biggest snub but for the WNBA it was the dumbest snub. In a league that struggles to break even it's probably not the best idea business wise to not showcase your most marketable athlete in front of the world's largest audience, just think of how many sponsors they lost out on.
Yes you do when she leads the WNB in turnovers and has the second worst plus - minus stat amongst rookies. She deserves ROY but not on a place on a Olympic squad in 2024
@@dansavoie5087 I agree. Clark averages almost twice as many turnovers as any other point guard in the entire league. She's historically bad in that area. She struggles against physical play. The play in the Olympics under international rules is far more physical. The pressure and pounding, which she just can't handle, would have turned her into a perpetual turnover machine if she ever were allowed to play significant minutes. Getting "snubbed" was the best thing that could have happened to her because it allowed her fans to continue to fool themselves that she would have done well.
@@john-tomlinson 2020 Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu didn't make the women's track and field team. World champion freestyle wrestler David Taylor retired after losing in the finals of the Trials.
Amelia Campbell was WELL short of the Olympic standard distance. It's 18.80m and she threw 18.18m as her best? Yeah that's not even close. I wouldn't have selected her either. Too bad she can't convert energy from whining into throwing, she'd be unbeatable, lol. And Rosie Malone only scored 1 goal in 15 games? Come on. That's only one more than I scored, and I don't even play hockey. Unless she's the goalie that's nowhere near good enough. Georgie Parker is spot on in her assessment.
I think Lydia Jacoby was a crazy miss! She got third or fourth at the Olympic trials, but she was the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the 100 breastroke! Emma Weber made it over her and didn’t preform her best in the prelims. I think Lydia should’ve been picked over Emma even if she didn’t do that good at the trials.
Sorry but this video is just ridiculous. Some Sports require an athlete to meet performance standards in either times or distances achieved, as listed by The Olympic Qualification standards. If the athlete fails to achieve those standards, or the additional alternative qualification requirements, they do not get to go. Obviously, some Team sports have the athletes selected on "playing ability" and that is up to their Sporting Body, as long as the Team has met its qualification requirements. Other factors come in to play as well that are subjective: fitting in to team playing styles, individual presentation etc. Yes, internal politics of that Team Sport can also apply and the controlling body of that sport just might not want their sport represented by certain players with maybe negative public presense. I love athletics. Ran Track (1500m) but also failed to qualify for the Olympics. (Of course being aged 69 and having times no where fast enough, could explain my non-selection. LOL)
No sound person would leave The draft' all around first pick, the all time leading scorer in the WNCAAB, the one selling out all her products/merchandise, the one selling out her games (home and away), the one responsible for charter flights, the one responsible for the WNBA's multi-mega-millions of dollar deals with big TV/Streaming services, and maybe other things I may be forgetting, From Playing An Event Surely To Draw MAJOR International Attention And Attendance, it is mental. Caitlin Clark has fans across the seas already, the nasty olympics would have put the tens-of-millions-of-dollars-in-debt-WNBA league on a higher level, higher than Caitlin has brought it already, which is very high. Insanity.
I was disappointed Athing Mu didn't make it somewhere. I know she fell but they could have put her on a relay team but maybe she didn't make that either.
She had a lot of time off then surgery then didn't compete up until the fall if memory serves, so quite a few athletes who had put the work in and made the trials etc was selected.
Making the US Olympic team is all about performing at the Trials, and Mu picked the worst possible time to fall. Carl Lewis is one of the great anchor runners in the history of the 4x100, but he was left off of the 1996 relay because he finished eighth in the 100 at the Trials.
Obviously they did because a first round draft pick just arrived in pro basketball. You don't leave a veteran like Kyrie Irving off the team but shit happens
@@KennethSchamehorn she may have say she doesn't fit in but it has nothing to do with her skin color and straightness. She would never play the victim card because she's too confident
Since you are talking about American professional basketball players of the men and women,, rugby professional players of the men and women, and professional baseball players of men and women are entirely different to compete for team USA depending upon matching the personalities with the best players that the spectators, like myself had read...so it is what it is, and tt is still basketball 🏀 season and baseball season too leading up to Championship... Others, track and field, there is no bye nor Olympic champion, everyone must compete and land in the top three spots, including Olympics standard that evolved by World Leading Record and World placement of each athlete according to the rules and regulations of the Olympics Committee... And that is why athletes are dismayed, bewildered, and disappointed to miss out on the Olympics that's every four years for the summer and winter... Thanks for sharing your insights and point of view!!!
If an athlete doesn't meet even the B standard for qualifying then should they really be there. It's hard to qualify for the Olympics for a reason. It's even harder when you get there.
Initially I agreed with leaving A Morgan off of the team. But after watching all the games I think she would have been a better choice than C Dunn. Same with Taurazi and Clark
Good for Arike & i salute her to exempt from Team USA coz of the rude, nasty & mean CReeve's (& co.) treatment! Jordan & Bryant (in their prime) gave chances to the young guns unlike Dinorausi, Drugfelon, Leflop, Durantula etc.
Slovenias Urska Zigart, top female cyclist was snubbed, so her boyfriend Pogacar, winner of 3 tour de france races refused to compete. We probably would have seen a different winner of the mens time trial and road race. The road race anyway almost certainly.
Snubbed? I object to your characterization as an athlete being "snubbed". As good as these athletes were, the team is moving on. They didn't fit in the current mix. That isn't being snubbed, unless of course, you are alleging that they were dropped when they did fit in on the team because the new coach didn't like them for some reason. If someone was "shafted" (that is, snubbed without a look), then maybe but not just because they were left off the current roster.
Envious of what? Jealous of what? Racist how? The coaches chose the team not the players. Everyone doesn’t see it the way you do. They are there to win gold medals, not when popularity contest. They didn’t need her to win gold. They don’t care if you or others never watch their Olympic games. All will be forgotten after they win their gold medals. You don’t understand the physicality required in professional sports. The players told you she was not going to be able to score the amount of points on them like she did in college. So far they haven’t been correct. They played the games for years and they know the league. No envy there. Racism is based on power not color. Not one black player or coach carries power. So it’s not racism. Which in reality does not exist, because there is only one race: humans. Don’t blame the players because the coaches know they didn’t need her to win and winning is the only expectation they have. Popularity, number in attendance, television viewership is not the goal. They chose the team based on international experience and the amount of time the players have with each other. You and others are using the wrong criteria to assess the situation. You guys bias’s are clouding your assessments. When they need her to win she will be on the team.
huh? alex morgan is straight up bad these days. she was always overrated but she has scored like 8 goals on the national team in the past 3 years. zero goals for her club team this season. they won in part because they left her off and lost the world cup in part because she was on the team.
I don't personally like Caitlin but she should have been selected to play in Paris. Whoever made the decision to not have Alex Morgan play in the Paris Olympics got it 100% correct. She has shown a terrible attitude in recent matches. Good thing she's out of the Olympics.
It’s not who got left off the team that bothers me the most. It’s the ones that are on the Olympic teams that have no business being there and if the system was so rigged and political. They wouldn’t be on the team. Plus who knows how much outside commercial.interests have on selections
Do you think any of these athletes deserved a spot more than someone else who made it onto the team?
Yes, you do.
Caitlin Clark might not be the biggest snub but for the WNBA it was the dumbest snub. In a league that struggles to break even it's probably not the best idea business wise to not showcase your most marketable athlete in front of the world's largest audience, just think of how many sponsors they lost out on.
The Dream Team HAD to have Christian Latner...did he even play in the Olympics???😝
Yes you do when she leads the WNB in turnovers and has the second worst plus - minus stat amongst rookies. She deserves ROY but not on a place on a Olympic squad in 2024
@@dansavoie5087 I agree. Clark averages almost twice as many turnovers as any other point guard in the entire league. She's historically bad in that area. She struggles against physical play. The play in the Olympics under international rules is far more physical. The pressure and pounding, which she just can't handle, would have turned her into a perpetual turnover machine if she ever were allowed to play significant minutes. Getting "snubbed" was the best thing that could have happened to her because it allowed her fans to continue to fool themselves that she would have done well.
Not everyone gets to go. They have to narrow it down somehow. Although some of those reasons sounded pretty lame.
Wild this list does not include RIchard Carapaz, was was the reigning Olympic champion in his sport.
Carapaz is great but that being a prior olympic champ definitely shouldn't automatically qualify someone for future games
The US leaves reigning Olympic and World champions off of the team for pretty much every Summer Olympics.
@@roberthudson1959 Interesting. They have a big team, so I guess it's understandable. But can you give some examples?
@@john-tomlinson 2020 Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu didn't make the women's track and field team. World champion freestyle wrestler David Taylor retired after losing in the finals of the Trials.
Amelia Campbell was WELL short of the Olympic standard distance. It's 18.80m and she threw 18.18m as her best? Yeah that's not even close. I wouldn't have selected her either. Too bad she can't convert energy from whining into throwing, she'd be unbeatable, lol.
And Rosie Malone only scored 1 goal in 15 games? Come on. That's only one more than I scored, and I don't even play hockey. Unless she's the goalie that's nowhere near good enough. Georgie Parker is spot on in her assessment.
This is funny…Arike Ogunbowale even got snubbed from this list 😂
Arike withdrew her name from consideration months before
Good for Joost; I hope he does really well!
I think Lydia Jacoby was a crazy miss! She got third or fourth at the Olympic trials, but she was the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the 100 breastroke! Emma Weber made it over her and didn’t preform her best in the prelims. I think Lydia should’ve been picked over Emma even if she didn’t do that good at the trials.
9:40 WHAT EXCEPTIONAL PROGRESS!!!!! HOW CAN SUCH EXCEPTIONAL ATHLETES NOT BE A PART OF THE OLYMPIC TEAM IS JUST BEYOND ME!!!!!!!!😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡🤬🤬
You need to look up snub. Passing on players coming off injuries OR just well past it are not snubs
Colorado Rapids homegrown Cole Bassett was left off the team as well.
Sorry but this video is just ridiculous. Some Sports require an athlete to meet performance standards in either times or distances achieved, as listed by The Olympic Qualification standards. If the athlete fails to achieve those standards, or the additional alternative qualification requirements, they do not get to go.
Obviously, some Team sports have the athletes selected on "playing ability" and that is up to their Sporting Body, as long as the Team has met its qualification requirements. Other factors come in to play as well that are subjective: fitting in to team playing styles, individual presentation etc. Yes, internal politics of that Team Sport can also apply and the controlling body of that sport just might not want their sport represented by certain players with maybe negative public presense.
I love athletics. Ran Track (1500m) but also failed to qualify for the Olympics. (Of course being aged 69 and having times no where fast enough, could explain my non-selection. LOL)
No sound person would leave The draft' all around first pick, the all time leading scorer in the WNCAAB, the one selling out all her products/merchandise, the one selling out her games (home and away), the one responsible for charter flights, the one responsible for the WNBA's multi-mega-millions of dollar deals with big TV/Streaming services, and maybe other things I may be forgetting, From Playing An Event Surely To Draw MAJOR International Attention And Attendance, it is mental. Caitlin Clark has fans across the seas already, the nasty olympics would have put the tens-of-millions-of-dollars-in-debt-WNBA league on a higher level, higher than Caitlin has brought it already, which is very high. Insanity.
You left out Erin Matson... the greatest field hockey player the USA has ever had.
I hope our (too) young athletes will not come back to bite us. You always need maturity to provide balance.
USA Soccer needs an overhaul especially the Mens
They're jealous of Caitlin Clark
The womens team did have a fine run thru the games and won gold, Caitlin will get her chance.
So in other words, Campbell didn't meet the qualification requirements, grievance politics and client journalism
I was disappointed Athing Mu didn't make it somewhere. I know she fell but they could have put her on a relay team but maybe she didn't make that either.
She had a lot of time off then surgery then didn't compete up until the fall if memory serves, so quite a few athletes who had put the work in and made the trials etc was selected.
Making the US Olympic team is all about performing at the Trials, and Mu picked the worst possible time to fall. Carl Lewis is one of the great anchor runners in the history of the 4x100, but he was left off of the 1996 relay because he finished eighth in the 100 at the Trials.
Well, i agree about her lack of performance in the world cup.
You don't leave a first-round draft pick an all-time leading college scorer off the team.Period
Obviously they did because a first round draft pick just arrived in pro basketball. You don't leave a veteran like Kyrie Irving off the team but shit happens
Merchandising…. Think of the merchandising
She's white and straight..... she just said doesn't fit in
@@KennethSchamehorn she may have say she doesn't fit in but it has nothing to do with her skin color and straightness. She would never play the victim card because she's too confident
Shaquille O'Neal was the most Dominant player in history and the #1 overall pick in the draft. He was left off the Olympic Team
Since you are talking about American professional basketball players of the men and women,, rugby professional players of the men and women, and professional baseball players of men and women are entirely different to compete for team USA depending upon matching the personalities with the best players that the spectators, like myself had read...so it is what it is, and tt is still basketball 🏀 season and baseball season too leading up to Championship...
Others, track and field, there is no bye nor Olympic champion, everyone must compete and land in the top three spots, including Olympics standard that evolved by World Leading Record and World placement of each athlete according to the rules and regulations of the Olympics Committee...
And that is why athletes are dismayed, bewildered, and disappointed to miss out on the Olympics that's every four years for the summer and winter...
Thanks for sharing your insights and point of view!!!
If an athlete doesn't meet even the B standard for qualifying then should they really be there. It's hard to qualify for the Olympics for a reason. It's even harder when you get there.
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Initially I agreed with leaving A Morgan off of the team. But after watching all the games I think she would have been a better choice than C Dunn. Same with Taurazi and Clark
Do Dunn and Morgan even play the same position? All three of the US forwards certainly played well.
7:52 WHAT A GOAL!!!!!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE, HOW CAN SOMEONE OF THIS CALIBER NOT BE IN THE TEAM ,😯😯😯😣😣😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣
What is this Campbell talking about. She didn't meet the Q standard
Good for Arike & i salute her to exempt from Team USA coz of the rude, nasty & mean CReeve's (& co.) treatment! Jordan & Bryant (in their prime) gave chances to the young guns unlike Dinorausi, Drugfelon, Leflop, Durantula etc.
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Slovenias Urska Zigart, top female cyclist was snubbed, so her boyfriend Pogacar, winner of 3 tour de france races refused to compete. We probably would have seen a different winner of the mens time trial and road race. The road race anyway almost certainly.
Snubbed? I object to your characterization as an athlete being "snubbed". As good as these athletes were, the team is moving on. They didn't fit in the current mix. That isn't being snubbed, unless of course, you are alleging that they were dropped when they did fit in on the team because the new coach didn't like them for some reason. If someone was "shafted" (that is, snubbed without a look), then maybe but not just because they were left off the current roster.
If winning is the goal, the olympics is not the time to decide to give untried young people a chance. I guess winning was not the goal.
Don't forget the Don Lemon snub..
Why is the USA soccer (football) coach a Brit?
The USA men’s national team fired the head coach because of the copa America performance. I don’t think u.s won a single game in the tournament
Team USA men's coach before this one was German
like for the rest of society , people sitting in offices parasiting the system
Soccer's TRodman's loved by most players & coaches. Basketball's Clark's hated by most players & coaches coz envious, racists & jealous.
Envious of what? Jealous of what? Racist how? The coaches chose the team not the players. Everyone doesn’t see it the way you do. They are there to win gold medals, not when popularity contest. They didn’t need her to win gold. They don’t care if you or others never watch their Olympic games. All will be forgotten after they win their gold medals. You don’t understand the physicality required in professional sports. The players told you she was not going to be able to score the amount of points on them like she did in college. So far they haven’t been correct. They played the games for years and they know the league. No envy there. Racism is based on power not color. Not one black player or coach carries power. So it’s not racism. Which in reality does not exist, because there is only one race: humans. Don’t blame the players because the coaches know they didn’t need her to win and winning is the only expectation they have. Popularity, number in attendance, television viewership is not the goal. They chose the team based on international experience and the amount of time the players have with each other. You and others are using the wrong criteria to assess the situation. You guys bias’s are clouding your assessments. When they need her to win she will be on the team.
Most were just not good enough. Not everyone can go.
Morgan was long time pending removal. she could not do anything on the field.
Why pros are allowed 😡🤬
As far as Luna....could the word "hate" tattooed on his neck be a good reason.? Yuck.
USA basketball has been.struggling.to win games
yes they struggled to Gold medal wins for both men and women.....
Awesome Alex Morgan left out. America did us a huge favor.
What country are you from?
@@bobolson7610I'm probably from North America.
The womens us soccer team didn't have alot of depth alex morgan could have helped as a reserved
huh? alex morgan is straight up bad these days. she was always overrated but she has scored like 8 goals on the national team in the past 3 years. zero goals for her club team this season. they won in part because they left her off and lost the world cup in part because she was on the team.
@@briannasweeney-u8j All that Megan Hate America feminist stuff is what brought the USA soccer team down.
I don't personally like Caitlin but she should have been selected to play in Paris. Whoever made the decision to not have Alex Morgan play in the Paris Olympics got it 100% correct. She has shown a terrible attitude in recent matches. Good thing she's out of the Olympics.
5:36 HOW CAN SOMEONE OF THIS CALIBER , WHO IS SO SO SO TALENTED NOT BE IN TEAM USA , THIS IS SUCH HORESE SHIT😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬
If people don't want you on a team, don't lobby or go to court to change that. Have some self- respect. Get your revenge, instead.
Alex Morgan was snubbed because she is beautiful, and the coach couldn't handle Morgan getting all of the attention.
no she was left off because she sucks
gosh its too bad the USA women only came away with a Gold medal....
I'm happy Caitlin Clark didn't make it on the USA basketball team. Let her earn a spot.
For real.
lol hater
How does she earn a spot when she is straight and white ?
It’s not who got left off the team that bothers me the most. It’s the ones that are on the Olympic teams that have no business being there and if the system was so rigged and political. They wouldn’t be on the team. Plus who knows how much outside commercial.interests have on selections