Rubbish.
and its not the fact of celebration its the manner - with the adulation and the boy himself conducting the adulation. The boy did not even shake hands with the runner up.
Grammar did not treat their 1500m champ like that. SJC did not treat their record equaling high jump champ like that. And they're just 2 I can think of.
Maybe that's because they weren't running two age groups up, smashing the record. I have no problem with the celebration, because as previously mentioned, Riverview was the only school to applaud the winner of each individual points tally.
Furthermore, Joeys wouldn't applaud because school policy dictates that they have to act carefully on the day. They are not allowed to cheer often or excessively, they are not allowed to stand, and they don't even participate with the age old stadium fun of waving (Mexican style). Second, Grammar did applaud their success, yet it's hard to be noticed with less than a quarter of the school in attendance. Their annual rate is pitiful, and it is only their yearly offering of children to the Athletic Gods as 'helpers' and 'assistants' that even allows them in the stands in the first place.
And finally, to maintain some equilibrium, at least this year no Riverview student threw a chair at an elderly gentlemen in the stadium. Its hard to pick up concrete blocks when you are forced into the worst seating area, even if you have one of the largest contingents present in both supporters and athletes.
Rant Dismissed.