These Olympics have seen their share of easy targets, from traffic to the continuing dominance of the Chinese team. But the big obnoxious elephant in the room is beginning to rear its head again, and it's not pretty: the Ugly Americans are back.
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The "Ugly Americans" term was coined at the 2000 Games when the gold medallist American 4x100 team pranced around the stadium with their shirts off, preening and making a mockery of the podium ceremony. Ironically, the poor display of sportsmanship was seen to upstage the incredible games of Marion Jones — who later had all her medals stripped for...
[Related: Is American Lolo Jones the Games' most over-hyped athlete?]
The "Ugly Americans" term was coined at the 2000 Games when the gold medallist American 4x100 team pranced around the stadium with their shirts off, preening and making a mockery of the podium ceremony. Ironically, the poor display of sportsmanship was seen to upstage the incredible games of Marion Jones — who later had all her medals stripped for...

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