Ravellenic Games - The Pregame Show
Bob: With the 2012 Ravellenic Games less than 24 hours away, we're here with one of the contestants. Ms. Sutton, as a previous knitlete, what can you tell us about this year's games? Toni: Well, as you know, Bob, there's been some contention with the U.S. Olympic Committee that Americans knitting in something called the "Ravelympics" denigrates U.S. Olympic athletes, while having their uniforms made in China by underpaid workers does not. In the end, it was decided that since the knitters had no unskilled workers to exploit for profit or sponsorships to sell to fast food and chemical companies , it would be best to rename the knitting games to preserve the purity of the Ravellenic spirit. Ron: Has the controversy changed the games at all? Toni: Yes--this year we have more than 11,000 knitters worldwide set to denigrate the U.S. athletes, and an event that normally gathers no press coverage has been covered by NPR, the Atlantic Monthly , Busi...