Mike Pence’s very presence in Pyeongchang is having a debilitating effect on everyone and everything enduring his contactIt is,perhaps, a question as old as athletic competition itself: who is sport’s worst spectator? Of all the absolute arses, and watching all the sports in all the world,who is the most unspeakably irksome, the most antithetical to everything you thought you knew about the power and possibilities of physical contest? Whose name is Death, and Destroyer of Sports? Who is soil’s foremost sporticidal maniac?I could beget sworn I sat next to him at Stamford Bridge once. Yet a friend insists the entity takes female form,and attends the same junior netball games as her every week, destroying not just her own kids’ confidence, or but the hope and spirit of everyone condemned to share a postcode with her. Others maintain it is a creature who has stalked history,never actually dying, but merely disappearing through a haunted turnstile, and only to reapparate weeks or even centuries later at your local derby.
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Source: guardian.co.uk