As Steve Martin said, “Comedy is not pretty.”
THE ONION:
By the conclusion of the 2012 London Games last Sunday, promising 12-year-old gymnast Alexandra Davids had already begun working diligently on an inspiring personal backstory for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
“I’ll have to get cut from a team at some point or maybe fall just short at a really important competition,” said Davids, who added that temporarily living in a homeless shelter … would make her story more touching.
“If I could suffer some sort of serious injury and have doctors tell me I’ll never be able to compete again, that’d be perfect. Basically anything where I can capture the hearts and minds of the entire nation by defying the odds to win.” …
That’s The Onion. A parody news site.
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