U.S. guard, Diana Taurasi, wants you to know she’s disappointed.
It’s quite clear that this year’s group of American women’s basketball players were the more dominate team as they crushed just about every opponent they played – pushing them to win their sixth gold medal…in a row.
But headlines focused elsewhere instead, on the men’s basketball team and their struggle in this year’s Olympic games rather than the women team’s triumph and Taurasi isn’t too thrilled, according to The Score.
She told Dan Bickley of AC Central in an interview:
I’ve invested 11 years into this. So nationally, how little exposure and attention it gets, it’s pitiful, really.
Taurasi highlighted on wanting to use this opportunity to bring more light to women’s basketball, which hasn’t received much exposer from mainstream media these past few years.
I can only speak from experience, but as a little kid I remember Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes, Dawn Staley, and Cynthia Cooper. I remember the mainstream media being involved and how much exposure they received. And I don’t know if that momentum has carried to the players that have come out in the last 10-12 years.
She’s also made it clear, that her disappointment comes strictly from a place of passion and no where else.
We’re doing something. Basketball is really important to a lot of people in the U.S., and no one takes it more serious than women. We play year-round. We sacrifice a lot of things to make sure we bring this (gold medal) home.
If you ask me, winning six gold medals in a row is definitely worthy of some attention.