Maybe he's been seriously hurt. Would that be worse?

I listened to an podcast episode of The Current podcastthe other day called "Native Panel" in which they discussed a bunch of issues pertaining to the Olympics, one of them being that they don't feel there are enough Native Olympic atheletes representing Canada, and that it's something we as a nation should be ashamed of.

I didn't think much of it until I got an email just now from an outraged work colleague encouraging everyone in my department to boycott tuning into the games because of this very reason.

There have been a bunch of back-and-forths with everyone cc'd on them with people arguing For or Against this idea and it's really causing a bit of a stir.

I don't get it.

Aren't the Olympics supposed to be based on skill and not on skin tone or ethnic background?

Who really cares about whether or not they're Native or Black or Hispanic or Caucasian or whatever as long as they go out there and do their best at what they're obviously one of the best at?

Besides Epic Beard Man would beat them all at everything if he weren't too intense for the Olympics anyway.