ST. LOUIS — The Minnesota athletics department would have been better sitting this one out.
No sooner had Shane Wiskus been introduced as a member of the U.S. men’s gymnastics team for the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday night than the department posted a congratulatory Tweet. Complete with not one, not two, but three photos of Wiskus competing in his Minnesota uniform.
A uniform that now qualifies as a relic, given Minnesota’s decision last fall to cut its men’s gymnastics team.
“I have a lot of things in my head right now,” Wiskus said when he was asked about the Tweet.
Oh, I can just bet.
Wiskus was among the most vocal critics after Minnesota