Blizzard of criticism against the beautiful basketball player

In recent hours, Sophie Cunningham, WNBA basketball player for the Indiana Fever, is at the center of a blizzard of criticism after statements she made on the podcast “Show Me Something”. Speaking about curling, Cunningham said, “I don&#8220t understand curling. Really, I cannot understand it: first of all, what makes curling a sport and not a hobby? And secondly, who decides that it is an Olympic sport? I don”t want to belittle these athletes because I know I could never do what they do but I happened to watch some games and asked myself a few questions”.

Many curling fans decided to vent their anger on social media and many asked Sophie Cunningham to apologize (which has not happened yet). “But how dare she say such things? She may or may not like it but she is a sport with an important history” Michael wrote on X. Jonas also didn&#8217t like the words of the famous basketball player at all: “The earliest documents on curling come from the records of Paisley Abbey in Scotland and are dated February 1541. How do you belittle it as you have done?”.

Curling has been part of the official program of the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 edition. In February 2002, however, the International Olympic Committee ruled retroactively that the competition held in 1924 should also be recognized as an Olympic test and no longer as a mere demonstration event. As a result, the first Olympic medals in the discipline, which was then known as “Openair,” are attributed to the 1924 Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix. On that occasion Great Britain won gold, Sweden silver and France bronze.

Curling then returned as a demonstration sport in 1932, during the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, with a tournament featuring four Canadian and four U.S. teams competing. The final tally rewarded Canada, which scored twelve victories against the United States’ four.