DAVID MARCUS: Patriotic Team USA wins gold as anti-America whiners flop

Sunday’s 2-1 overtime triumph for the United States men’s hockey squad implicit archrival Canada is arguably our nation’s astir important wintertime golden medal since the past clip our boys were kings of the athletics during the 1980 "Miracle connected Ice," and the team’s pridefulness successful its state conscionable made it each the sweeter.

You whitethorn callback that, from the outset of the games successful Milan Cortina 2 weeks ago, determination were American athletes chiding and criticizing our federation from their property podiums, and portion correlation is not causation, galore of them didn’t fare terribly well.

Take Hunter Hess, the American freestyle skier who said astir representing the U.S. anterior to competing, "It brings up mixed emotions to correspond the U.S. close now. It’s a small hard. There’s evidently a batch going connected that I’m not the biggest instrumentality of." He added, "I think, for me, it’s much I’m representing my friends and family."

Hess finished 10th — and his 15 minutes of fame ended.

Then determination was fig skater Amber Glenn, who said members of the LGBT assemblage successful America are "having a hard time" and that she would usage her dependable to "try to promote radical to enactment strong."

It’s worthy noting that Iran had a wintertime Olympic squad this year. One wonders however Glenn thinks gays and lesbians are treated there.

Notably, portion her teammates helped unafraid a squad golden successful fig skating, Glenn finished a disappointing 5th successful singles, missing the podium — which hopefully gave her other clip to absorption connected cheery rights.

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America did triumph singles gold, done fig skater Alysa Liu, who not lone did not kick astir her state but chose to vie for the United States alternatively of China, arsenic chap Chinese-American freestyle skier Eileen Gu did. Liu and her family, aft all, recovered state here.

Then determination was hockey — the glorious men’s and women’s tournaments successful which some U.S. teams took gold. There was nary whining astir America oregon President Donald Trump. Instead, determination was downright purer unapologetic patriotism connected display.

Take women’s hockey prima Taylor Heise, who told Fox News Digital, "Playing for your state and the pridefulness of the spot that you unrecorded successful is beauteous astonishing and to deterioration that USA emblem connected your thorax each time is thing you don’t privation to instrumentality for granted."

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Hear, hear.

Or see Jack Hughes’ postgame interrogation connected Sunday. His breached teeth and game-winning extremity were emblematic of Team USA’s grit. He said, "It’s each astir our state close now. I emotion the USA. I emotion my teammates — it’s unbelievable. The USA Hockey brotherhood is truthful strong, and we had truthful overmuch support. I’m truthful arrogant to beryllium American today."

Not agelong after, the boys successful red, achromatic and bluish were speaking with President Donald Trump successful the locker country via speakerphone, excited astir the accidental to be Tuesday’s State of the Union code — the aforesaid lawsuit galore Democrats successful Congress are petulantly skipping retired on.

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There is nary technological mode to cognize whether feeling patriotism, alternatively than ambivalence and dull shame, erstwhile competing for your state astatine the Olympics impacts performance. But it surely seems similar playing for millions of radical — alternatively of conscionable your "friends and family" — could supply a boost.

By definition, apical Olympic athletes vie astatine specified a precocious level of endowment and quality that the slightest vantage tin marque each the difference, immoderate of these sports are decided by fractions of seconds.

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Maybe it’s cheesy, but it surely sounded arsenic though the winners drew inspiration, courageousness and vigor from knowing the American radical were cheering them on. They weren’t winning for Boston, Dallas oregon Philadelphia — they were winning for each of us.

As our absorption shifts to the Summer Olympics successful Los Angeles aboriginal this year, American athletes should instrumentality note: patriotism and pridefulness successful America conscionable mightiness beryllium a competitory advantage. And yes, I’m looking astatine you, men’s hoops team.

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On Sunday morning, millions of Americans shared thing precise peculiar — a triumph arsenic improbable arsenic our large nation, likewise won done guts and determination. And present we get to ticker viral videos of bittersweet Canadians shocked astatine the result.

So, convey you to the patriots of Team USA. You made the acheronian days of wintertime a small brighter and made america arrogant — not conscionable of you, but of the singular federation we share.

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