to see people disrespect a team and assume the worst this team had a great Olympic Games. Those of you who are at home have nerve to say<\/p>\n
— Destinee Hooker (@destineehooker) August 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n negative things when you don't know how it feels to represent your country and train 4 years for an opportunity like this. But at the in I<\/p>\n — Destinee Hooker (@destineehooker) August 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n will continue to pray for each and everyone of you because you are truly an embarrassment!<\/p>\n — Destinee Hooker (@destineehooker) August 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n After Brazil defeated the U.S. for the gold medal in women’s volleyball<\/a>, Team USA volleyball player Destinee Hooker lashed out at her critics.<\/p>\n Looking back at her timeline provides a glimpse at some of the disrespectful comments that upset the volleyball star.<\/p>\n One Twitter user stated that Hooker and her teammates believed that they had already secured the gold medal before their match with Brazil:<\/p>\n\n\n @destineehooker<\/a> You believed that you were the winners before the grand finale…<\/p>\n — Gutemberg (@GuttoBerg) August 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n Hooker denied it:<\/p>\n\n\n @GuttoBerg<\/a> no we did not we never said anything like that. Don't ASSUME what you don't know<\/p>\n — Destinee Hooker (@destineehooker) August 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n A Brazilian Twitter user called Hooker a failure, despite the fact that she won a silver medal:<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiagoDeMelo_\/status\/234455239967772672<\/a><\/p>\n Hooker replied succinctly:<\/p>\n\n\n @TiagoDeMelo_<\/a> JERK!!!<\/p>\n — Destinee Hooker (@destineehooker) August 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n And this Twitter user mocked Hooker’s last name:<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankoBoJr\/status\/234553193617571840<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n @FrankoBoJr<\/a> @HarveySorrow<\/a> wow how horrible are you<\/p>\n — Destinee Hooker (@destineehooker) August 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/08\/12\/team-usa-volleyball-player-destinee-hooker-rips-critics-you-are-truly-an-embarrassment\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/destineehooker\/status\/234614517773000705 to see people disrespect a team and assume the worst this team had a great Olympic Games. Those of you who are at home have nerve to say — Destinee Hooker (@destineehooker) August 12, 2012 negative things when you don't know how it feels to represent your country and train 4 years for an … Continue reading Destinee Hooker rips critics: ‘you are truly an embarrassment!’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14352039589422-hooker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}