An Olympic Observation

I have not watched a great deal of the Olympics this year, both because I do not own a tv, and also do not feel like sitting through the broken fragments my internet collection allows when viewing the online videos. However, this past weekend I spent up at my cousin's house in New York, and the tv Olympic watching was abundant. Normally, I just enjoy watching the gymnastics, but this year, with all the hype around swimming, I've actually got into watching that as well. I found myself urging the US team on, holding my breath for the last stretch. Pretty amazing.
What is NOT amazing, I have found, are the ridiculously stupid questions asked by reporters to athletes just as they cross the finish line, are trying to catch their much lost breath, and processing their win, loss, place, or performance. It is unfathomable to me why you would walk up to someone who just lost a race and expected to do well, and ask, "So that was quite a loss. How are you feeling about it?" What are they supposed to say to that? They just lost a race they've been training for months, maybe years, and this dream for them has ended! How do you think they feel?!?! "Bad," is pretty much the fairly obvious answer to that question, since not many people would say, "Awesome. I'm so happy that I lost!" and yet they insist on asking. I can't imagine something more insensitive. Also on the top of the list of tasteless interviews, are the ones where they interview the loser about the winner. They say things like, "Weren't they great? What do you think about their performance?" I mean, "They did good. They were faster than me." That's pretty much all you can say.
My all time favorite stupid question that had me laughing hysterically for at least five minutes:
Men's 100 meter race - winner just ran it 9.6 seconds, making a new world record, running it faster than any man ever. The first question to the third place US runner - "Have you ever seen anything like that before?" Are you kidding? Of course he hasn't, you idiot - it was a WORLD RECORD! No one has seen anything like that before! I mean, have you? I guess the next time that happens to him, he can say, "Yes, I have seen that before. About four years ago, from about .2 seconds behind him." Geez, unbelievable.