Quote Originally Posted by MiamiHeat316:
these athletes would love to get a gold only a fucking moron would say that they dont care. And Djoker is all about putting serbia on the map. GREAT BET
2004 this no-name won the gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Mass%C3%BA
the only time he's ever made even the 4th round of a tourney was the 2005 us open. yeah, i'm sure the other players on the ATP tour really cared, which is why this guy has never made GS quarters in his life, won the gold medal in 2004

and in 1988, this guy won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miloslav_Me%C4%8D%C3%AD%C5%99
Mecir was a decent player but only made 2 GS finals in his career (he had to play in the era of tennis giants like mcenroe, lendl, becker, edberg, wilander, etc). but, as fate would have it he won the gold at the olympics but ZERO grand slams in his career.
and in 1992, when sampras, agassi, courier, goran ivanisovec, still even becker and eberg, were around and playing really well, they let this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rosset win the olympic gold yet he NEVER made a GS final in his career, not even one,
but........he has an olympic gold.
we'll see how much they care in london when the french and wimbledon tourneys are over, and they are exhausted wanting rest before the hardcourt season.
we'll see how much they, including Djoko, want that gold

remind me again, the greatest player of our generation who was around in 04 and 08 playing at his highest level named Roger Federer has how many Golds, Silver's, Bronze's, in singles??
how about Sampras, how many gold's, silvers, bronze's, does he have??
lendl?
edberg?
mcenroe?
agassi?
becker?
conners?
go check and tell me how many total Golds, Silvers, and Bronzes you can find there.
sometimes i think some of you posters are 18 yr old kids who literally have no historical reference and literally do not know SHIT about sports
it's pathetic.