Sven Kramer Calls American Reporter Stupid
Sven Kramer, a speedskater from Heerenveen, Netherlands, won a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, and was asked by an American NBC reporter:
"If you can say your name and your country and what you just won here."
Kramer immediately replied:
"Are you stupid? Hell no I’m not going to do that."
In a Dutch interview (video below), Kramer explains:
"Come on, this is ridiculous. You’ve just become Olympic gold medal winner. She was there when it happened and then you have to sum up your whole biography, etc. She’s crazy."
A comment on YouTube sums up my initial reaction:
"The reporter was stupid in making Sven do her job for her. If she needed tape ID all she had to do was say, "Im am so and so here with Sven of the Netherlands who just won a gold medal in the x event … Sven how do you feel?" Instead she turns him into her employee by saying she "needs him to" identify himself for her company so that they dont have to work so hard. She is a buffoon who made herself and her company look like idiots. But making it an American thing is ridiculous too."
On the other hand, Kramer could have chosen a different approach by perhaps asking "Isn’t that your job?" Kramer’s response seems to be rooted in a bad attitude towards America, and his response to a person he perceived to be an American reporter reflected that attitude. Winners who are arrogant have no patience for stupid questions, because they believe they are too important.
“Kramer’s response seems to be rooted in a bad attitude towards America”
And you base this on what?
Did you even watch the video, which is where the answer to your question is?
you can’t see the video anymore, it’s copyrighted.
owh, and by the way, that picture you see, where he wears a orange sweater, that’s not the reporter.
She works for the dutch television NOS. She’s a good presentor!!
I’m from the netherlands, and speed skating is sooo big in our country, sven is like the ‘michael Jordan’ from the Netherlands. If it was Michale jordan standing in front of her, she wouldn’t ask those stupid questions, so be a bit more proffesional and respectfull, he did his job, so she sould have done it too!
Michael Jordan has been asked a lot of stupid questions, but he has never acted badly like Sven, which is why Michael Jordan is still so popular, and barely anyone outside Sven’s country even know he exists. It’s an insult to Michael Jordan to compare him to Sven.
Sweden?? hahaha Who is stupid now??
Sven Kramer, a Dutch speedskater —> THE NETHERLANDS!!!
And SVEN KRAMER ROCKS!! Love him!
Sven lost….HAHHAHAHA! Now he will only be remembered for the JERK A$$ that he is. Sven = FAIL. AHHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sweden looks stupid now thanks to this TOOL.
Please change your name. You’re making Canadians look bad.
GLAD YOU LOST THAT GOLD BWWAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!JERK OFF!!!
sven YOUR A JERK
Cmon! the guy was a freakin first class a hole. it would have taken him 2 seconds to state his stupid name and medal. sven you sir are a jack a$$
Gimme a break. Arrogant jerk got just what he deserved for calling someone stupid. He could have been gracious, but no, he chose to be an a$$ about it. What goes around comes around. A level of civility would have been appropriate.
Yes, but I am sure that in the Netherlands, they knew very well who Michael Jordan was. Popular American athletes are usually popular world over. You could expect an interviewer to know who they are. Who else has heard of “Sven Kramer” besides the dutch?? When the Netherlands can say the same, perhaps then they will have an argument. Until then, jokes on Sven isn’t it?
HG, its not that winners are arrogant and think they are too important but stupidity should not be rewarded or coddled. The reporter was given the time for an interview and didn’t even bother with her homework on the event. That’s just plain lazy, disrespectful and ignorant.
wow – didn’t get a chance to see the video .. o well.
she’s pretty pathetic. i do sense that americans always put themselves on a high pedestal for no apparent reason. keep this up america. we apparently are too blind to realize all our jobs are trickling away to foreign countries.
props to his attitude. if he’s right, he can give all the attitude he wants. that’s how you do it!
ya that reporter was stupid…
you have to remember as well this kid is like the michael jordan of the Dutch. Speed skating is a religion in that country. This kid has full right ot be annoyed with that stupid announcer…
Good on him … Americans are arrogant when it comes to other Countries. It’s about time yanks respected everyone else.