Funny thing is, Jap girl will almost certainly be beaten by a cheating 15-year old Russian, who really should be banned by now, but isn’t, because the IOC is weak as piss, and doesn’t want to “anger” Putin…
Even more amusingly, if said Russian (Salieva) medals, there is no medal ceremony, because of the bullshit legalese the IOC invented to justify the whole thing…
Absolute clown world.
This whole Olympics has been the biggest joke since Rio, or maybe even Sochi… 🤦🏻♂️
Must admit, Canada and the US failing in both the curling and the men’s hockey has brought me some degree of shadenfreude though, lol…
Olympics has been a scam for a long time. The whole "city pays billions for facilities that go underutilized afterwards" thing is fucking stupid. They need to create a permanent site somewhere in Greece and be done with it.
Fair call. Doesn’t work for the Winter games (not really, anyway), though…
That would need to be basically Norway, Canada or somewhere in the Alps (which it is, most years, anyway), for it to work, lol…
But while cities continue to (take) pride (in) this as they do, and while it continues to be the media spectacle/propaganda coup that it is, I seriously don’t see that happening any time soon… 🤷🏻♂️
And unfortunately it doesn’t really seem to matter what “Joe Public” thinks - TPTB will continue to bid for, and host, it, regardless of what their constituents want, or say…
Jokes on you, you're watching the chinese propaganda.
🤷🏻♂️
I watch some. The actual sports, that is, not the cultural stuff…
And yes, I’m well aware of that. But hey, at least I’m not literally running interference for Putin, and treating Ukrainians like fucking excess baggage, unlike some people here, apparently…
Chinese propaganda be damned. Anyone supporting Putin and his actions right now is far worse than watching a bit of competitive sport… 🤦🏻♂️
Shills gotta earn their rubles too. /s
Seriously, though, I hope all paid shills get ass raped by bears.
putin bad please clap
Not exactly what I said…
The Russian cheating is pretty much irrefutable, at this point (unless you’re Russian, perhaps). As is the fact that the IOC is scared that fucking with Russia will goad him into doing something stupid in Ukraine…
Sochi and Rio were debacles. Clusterfucks. That is also a simple fact. 🤷🏻♂️
Russia isn’t “the enemy”, here, but Jesus it would be nice if they a) stopped fucking cheating, and b) didn’t keep threatening a sovereign country of 40 million people, who do not want to be Russian subjects…
Christ, man, it’s not that hard… 🤦🏻♂️🙄
The Russians have been cheating for decades. Hell, they were the first to use anabolic steroids which prompted the Americans to start using them top.
They don't want to piss off a major country who will probably be a host nation in the future and/or might stop sending athletes.
They don't give a shit about any invasions or anything.
I don’t. But apparently the IOC lawyers do (think it might contribute)… 🤷🏻♂️
You underestimate how much Russia cares about that damn medal tally, and figure skating in general…
That’s the media explanation for the IOC’s “decision” (partly), anyway…
Take it as you will.
what about the ones who DO?
I fail to see how failing at curling is in anyway important to anyone.
For the rest I have no idea what happened, you may need to explain it to us who did not watch it.
In Canadian: “Them’s fighting words, eh!”
I’ll explain the rest in a bit, but my reply to Imp below should explains but about what is going on in the figure skating, with the Russians, lol…
Farmers don't have much else to do in the winter, so they get into recs hockey and curling, basically.
Oh, so that's what that was. I saw people talking about the figure skating and wondered why on earth anyone would care.
How do you cheat at a "sport" that has no win condition? It's purely subjective.
She was found to be taking some sort of banned heart drug, that may contribute to increased stamina and endurance, basically…
But she’s 15. Clearly she can’t have taken the drug herself, without it being (illegally) supplied by her coaches…
Bizarrely, that was the IOC’s argument for not banning her… Yet because the case is still ongoing, no one in her two events wins a medal, in the meantime, plus no medial ceremony… No one…
Fucking ludicrous.
Russia is just about to win Gold, Silver and Bronze in this event, and they are all under 18, and all from the same skating school, where the doping coach obviously comes from…
She got 4th. Arguably the pressure got to her, but I suspect the judges were told not to give her a medal, to avoid the controversy with the medal ceremony shit I mentioned…
All extremely dubious. Russia 1-2, but not her…