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Brazilians are booing everyone who competing against their favorite athletes (when there´s one). Most people here are not used to watch single/individual sports so they think the same behavior we see on team sports - specially football - can be applied to those sports. It´s kind of disgusting, in my point of view.
I feel dissapointed, as a Brazilian, to see audiences doing that AGAIN. In the Panamerican Games of 2007, it was so bad that journalists nicknamed that event the "Booing Pan Ams". I thought that people (and media, by the way) would have learn how to proper behave on sports like table tennis, gymnastics, athletics etc after all those test events. I was wrong.
On Tv transmissions I´ve seen brazilian commentors rooting for the failure of athletes in equestrian and gymnastics so Brazilians could win a medal. As a sports fan, I just think this kind of attitude is nasty.
