Sure, Bangkok might not be in China per se, but goshdarn, it’s much funnier. What’s not funny business is the goodwill that the New England Patriots cheerleading team (seen above, clearly somewhere Asian) are spreading all over Asia.
You see, the Chinese are not masters at cheering. But they certainly want to assemble a crew. Which is why they recruited 200,000 Chinese women to try out for a Olympic cheerleading teams. These women will then be cut down to a group of 400 and and divided into teams to cheer for other countries.
“It is almost unheard of in the history of the Olympic movement, [recruiting such a] large number of student cheerleaders to cheer for other countries during the Games,” says Guoqi Xu, author of “Olympic Dreams, China and Sports, 1895-2008,” in an e-mail. “The Beijing Olympic Games has not yet started, but Beijing has created many precedents” already.
Most of the volunteer cheerleaders – which include many retired civil servants – though, have never shaken pom poms in sassy pleated skirts, let alone roused a crowd with victory jumps.
Which is where the ladies of Bahston cheer come in. Because someone has to train the Chinese. Clearly.
The 400 who made the cut will perform “not only as cheerleaders, but also as dancers and acrobats,” the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) promises on its website.
They’ve been practicing for four to six hours a day at a compound on the outskirts of Beijing since June. To teach them new moves and help them with pep and precision, BOCOG brought in cheerleaders from the storied New England Patriots football team.
And people say America needs to mind its own business in international affairs. Puh-lease. We might suck at diplomacy, and maybe we’re a little heavy handed and meddling, but no one cheers like us, son.
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This is the craziest thing I ever heard of, hiring people to cheer for the teams. Wow! Did they have any dudes tryout?
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