OT: Olympics
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I was watching the competition from that venue last night and was thinking perhaps it was a Chinese version of Chernobyl!
Normally, I love the pageanty of the Olympics and look forward to them every two years but I have issues when the IOC selects a city like Beijing for the Winter Games when it doesn't have the physical environment for holding those games and when it is a totalitarian state. Consider that FIFA has chosen Qatar - a completely undemocratic absolute monarchy that has just one real city, for the next World Cup and you really have to wonder what palms are getting greased. I tried without success to get a visa to visit Qatar this past year so that I could find out if they were building all 8 stadiums for the Cup in Doha or if they were scattering them out in the desert.
So someone asks the question. People respond. And your response is to attack the responders. Talk about the "usual " ...
F@ck china. Never should have had Olympics there. And if you and @mildone think being mad about 900,000 americans dying is just being "mad about something" then you guys should never talk as bout Covid being a big deal again.
Answer. No. Absolutely not watching and I love watching them.
Trash away.
Well, not really.
Beyond that, it lacks context. You complain about somebody (I'm not sure who) "bowing down" to the Chinese, but you don't want to talk about all the times Trump praised Xi for how well he was handling the early days of the pandemic (which is only 15 cases and soon will be zero!), nor do you want to talk about Trump's bizarre relationship with Putin - which literally every single one of our allies denounced as unhelpful.
I get it, you want to bash Dems and Own Libs and stuff. But you're not making a good play of it by suddenly being all verklempt about the Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs (for example). Attempting to do so is a one-sided attempt to discredit a nation on an issue without being open to considering issues right here at home.
Is the Uyghur situation terrible and worthy of denouncement? Absolutely. But you have to be intellectually open to understanding that a lot of countries have very serious issues with some of the things we do, as well. There's not another major economic power on the planet that isn't frustrated with the fact that we have 100x as many firearms homicides, per capita, as other nations. That we have, by far, the highest rate of incarceration. That we don't provide health care to every single one of our citizens, as an absolute right. You don't want to talk about those things, either because you don't believe them or you don't believe in them. But go abroad, talk to other people around the world whose opinions matter every bit as much as yours and you'll quickly learn that we're not the favorite kid in school.
Which, really, is what the Olympics are supposed to be about. We don't like **** the Chinese do. We don't like **** the Russians do. Well, the Brits and the French and the Italians and the Australians and the Czechs and the Norwegians and Swedes and Romanians and Japanese and... well, you get the idea - they don't like **** we do. But the Olympics are about putting all that **** aside for 12 days and just watching some hot chicks on the Curling ice and laughing when some German eats it on the Luge track.
It's a time-out. We don't get many of those, in life. Take it and enjoy it. Or at least try.
Trump has zero to do with this..so take your tds disease elsewhere. This has nothing to do with owning the libs. We had the speaker of the house tell our athletes to shut up because the Chinese will do something bad to them if we speak
The Olympics shouldn't be there and neither should we
Unfortunately some cant put this aside and ive watched every Olympics since 76
Can't help but pick out the only thing you think you're intellectually equipped to respond to.
This is 100% true - I have tried, on many occasions, to reason with you as if you were an intelligent adult. You're not. You're just not even close. You have the demeanor of a petulant 4 year-old girl, the attention span of a puppy and the reasoning skills of a slightly moldy cabbage.
Hats off to China. They are buying good American athletes that were raised here and are winning them medals.
Hey we are rutgers fans . We can handle the sucking
When I first saw this I thought it was photo shopped. But NO! It's all true they put the ski jump in the middle of a rundown dilapidated closed steel mill. I'm sure that pond is nothing but a polluted waste retention pond.On top of all that Beijing doesn't even have snow
Same. Never understood the appeal of opening/closing ceremony (Summer or Winter).
Been busy so haven't had a chance to watch as much as usual.
It is weird watching the outdoor events with wideshots of little to no surrounding snow.
Indoor events have been great - short track speed skating, curling, hockey
Funny anecdote: Let me kids stay up to watch some of the Womens downhill last night. After the US woman fell, my son started rooting for all the other women to fall as well.
"They aren't from the U.S. We want them to lose. It's good if they all fall down too".
Not sure if this is good parenting or bad parenting.
I watch certain events the same way I watch auto racing (NASCAR, Indy, Formula One)…for the crashes:
- short track speed skating
- luge (single and double)
- skeleton
- the thing they do on hockey skates but on the slopes
And Men’s hockey, just our guys though.
- short track speed skating
- luge (single and double)
- skeleton
- the thing they do on hockey skates but on the slopes
And Men’s hockey, just our guys though.
It's even worse than the fake snow at Sochi? Gee, maybe having the Winter Olympics in an area that only gets 2 inches of snow in February (on average) is a colossally dumb idea.
It also isnt quite the same since communism fell....the us against them was a big deal whether it was hockey or in figure skating and with the eastern bloc judges.
Honestly I always preferred ABC coverage in the 70s and 80s with Jim Mckay and did not enjoy the NBC coverage as much
Honestly I always preferred ABC coverage in the 70s and 80s with Jim Mckay and did not enjoy the NBC coverage as much
Not sure, either, but my son was also jinxing the non-US mogul skiers, so right there with ya either way : )
Because Naomi Osaka was born in Japan? Eileen Gu was born & raised in California.
Is it bad that I was hoping for her to crash land?
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9.5, 9.5, 9.5 and a 6 lrom the Russian judge.
Naomi doesn't even speak Japanese. And what would you say about Hakeem Olajuwon?
Hakeem was born and raised in Nigeria but chose to play for USA.
I may have misread or you may have edited your comment after you realized the error. Regardless I deleted the comment. Point still stands, she was born in Japan so she can represent them in the Olympics all she wants.
Yes I also thought the pics were faked until I saw video of site
I already knew all the snow was man-made (its cold in Beijing but they get little snow - like .5 inches a year) Below is existing Ski Jump in Oslo Norway - who China beat for 2022 event
China just owns everybody
I didn't edit.
If it's all about the birthplace, how come no one calls Hakeem Olajuwon a traitor?