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iGenesis
02/20/22 2:32:00 PM
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.france24.com/en/live-news/20220220-china-celebrates-record-winter-olympics-haul-and-beating-us

At least according to the Olympics website, which ranks countries by gold medals, then silvers, then bronzes:
  • Team China placed 3rd (behind Norway & Germany) with 9 gold, 4 silver & 2 bronze.
  • Team USA was 4th with 8 gold, 10 silver & 7 bronze.
There were 2 California-raised athletes who decided to represent China, and in this years Olympics it ended up making the difference https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/eileen-gu-zhu-yi-embroiled-us-china-tensions-2022-2%3Famp

What are your thoughts on this?

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ScazarMeltex
02/20/22 2:32:39 PM
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Good for them?

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xXfireglzXx
02/20/22 2:32:54 PM
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The olympics is going on?

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TheLiarParadox
02/20/22 2:33:21 PM
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Congrats, I guess?

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hockeybub89
02/20/22 2:33:45 PM
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Go Norway

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iGenesis
02/20/22 2:34:13 PM
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xXfireglzXx posted...
The olympics is going on?
I believe it ended today.

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BryanRust17
02/20/22 2:35:33 PM
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If it wasn't for Gary Bettman, the USA would have had more since Bryan Rust would be lacing them up for team USA. Speaking of which, Bryan Rust just scored his 19th of the season.

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Tenmyouji
02/20/22 2:35:42 PM
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Gamerguymass
02/20/22 2:36:20 PM
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I mean the only reason they beat us in golds was because of an ungrateful traitor, so its not much to brag about.

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BryanRust17
02/20/22 2:37:08 PM
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Gamerguymass posted...
I mean the only reason they beat us in golds was because of an ungrateful traitor, so its not much to brag about.

Yes that traitor named Gary Bettman

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sktgamer_13dude
02/20/22 2:37:27 PM
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Gamerguymass posted...
I mean the only reason they beat us in golds was because of an ungrateful traitor, so its not much to brag about.

And you wonder why she didnt want to compete for the US.

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Funkydog
02/20/22 2:37:46 PM
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Gamerguymass posted...
I mean the only reason they beat us in golds was because of an ungrateful traitor, so its not much to brag about.
People really do like to brazenly expose themselves, eh?

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hockeybub89
02/20/22 2:37:47 PM
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Gamerguymass posted...
I mean the only reason they beat us in golds was because of an ungrateful traitor, so its not much to brag about.
I hate China as much as the next guy, but lol at thinking anyone owes loyalty to the country they were born in or live in.

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Bio1590
02/20/22 2:40:40 PM
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I mean calling her a "traitor" is pretty far but her situation *is* pretty fucking stupid, especially considering China is giving her a special exemption not available to others.

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s0nicfan
02/20/22 2:42:00 PM
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A couple of players switching which nation they represent is really a drop in the bucket compared to all the problems this Olympics had with cheating, overly long quarantine periods for foreign athletes, garbage food served to anyone in quarantine, flooded athlete dorms that weren't fixed, and competing in conditions as cold as negative 35 with wind chill. And that doesn't even get into all the instances caught on video of Chinese athletes blatantly cheating and the judges ruling in their favor.


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Jeff AKA Snoopy
02/20/22 2:42:20 PM
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Uhm, Canada was 4th in the medal totals, not the US.

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Gamerguymass
02/20/22 2:43:00 PM
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sktgamer_13dude posted...
And you wonder why she didnt want to compete for the US.

People only gave her shit because of her flipping off the US and thinking China was some utopia. No one outside of her sport even knew who she was before that. I would bet a huge chunk of people now still don't even know what sport she's in just that she was born and raised here and ran to China.

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hockeybub89
02/20/22 2:45:26 PM
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Gamerguymass posted...
People only gave her shit because of her flipping off the US and thinking China was some utopia. No one outside of her sport even knew who she was before that. I would bet a huge chunk of people now still don't even know what sport she's in just that she was born and raised here and ran to China.
So you're saying a bunch of idiots got mad at something they don't care about just to yell and show how offended they are. Sounds like SJWism to me

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Tyranthraxus
02/20/22 2:46:38 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
Uhm, Canada was 4th in the medal totals, not the US.

It's not medal totals. It's ordered by golds, then silvers, then bronzes.

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sktgamer_13dude
02/20/22 2:47:27 PM
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Gamerguymass posted...


People only gave her shit because of her flipping off the US and thinking China was some utopia. No one outside of her sport even knew who she was before that. I would bet a huge chunk of people now still don't even know what sport she's in just that she was born and raised here and ran to China.

sktgamer_13dude posted...


And you wonder why she didnt want to compete for the US.

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Materus
02/20/22 2:47:49 PM
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Doesnt mean much when china cheated at every event tbh. Makes it even sadder that they were still too dogshit to finish first even when they were manipulating the outcomes of events.

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electricbugs2
02/20/22 2:50:08 PM
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Materus posted...
Doesnt mean much when china cheated at every event tbh. Makes it even sadder that they were still too dogshit to finish first even when they were manipulating the outcomes of events.
Lmao what a stupid post. Shut the fuck up.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
02/20/22 3:05:37 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
It's not medal totals. It's ordered by golds, then silvers, then bronzes.

That is a stupid metric.

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s0nicfan
02/20/22 3:06:35 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
That is a stupid metric.

Not if you're China and this gives you the opportunity to parade around how you "beat the US" in the Olympics for at least a couple of years.

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Flauros
02/20/22 3:06:57 PM
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I guess their schtick of raising kids from birth into being olympians is working out

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VigorouslySwish
02/20/22 3:07:26 PM
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My thoughts are this will be the last Olympics because no one cares anymore

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ultimate reaver
02/20/22 3:09:23 PM
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VigorouslySwish posted...
My thoughts are this will be the last Olympics because no one cares anymore

ive heard more people talking about the olympics this year than any i can remember

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Background_Guy
02/20/22 3:11:56 PM
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They bought truckloads of foreign athletes and had the judges favor them in half the events and they still only barely got third?
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VigorouslySwish
02/20/22 3:13:17 PM
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ultimate reaver posted...
ive heard more people talking about the olympics this year than any i can remember

thats only because of how horrible it was

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Kloe_Rinz
02/20/22 3:14:36 PM
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Totally legit results from totally legit government
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Gamerguymass
02/20/22 3:17:31 PM
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ultimate reaver posted...
ive heard more people talking about the olympics this year than any i can remember

The biggest story of the Olympics was about a 15 year old doping. Not any of the actual events, but cheating. The second biggest story was the American, or former I should say, athletes competing for China. No one really cared about the events themselves.

It has also been confirmed that it was the lowest rated Olympics ever.

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UnholyMudcrab
02/20/22 3:17:46 PM
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The people who claim not to care about the Olympics sure seem quick to forget that when they read headlines like this

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electricbugs2
02/20/22 3:32:01 PM
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Gamerguymass posted...
The biggest story of the Olympics was about a 15 year old doping. Not any of the actual events, but cheating. The second biggest story was the American, or former I should say, athletes competing for China. No one really cared about the events themselves.

It has also been confirmed that it was the lowest rated Olympics ever.
15 year old cheating. Lmao no the story was about her and her teammates being abused. Dont talk about things you know fuck all about.

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Gamerguymass
02/20/22 3:38:57 PM
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electricbugs2 posted...
15 year old cheating. Lmao no the story was about her and her teammates being abused. Dont talk about things you know fuck all about.

What the fuck are you talking about? Literally every story was about her doping by having a banned heart drug in her system and then testing positive for two more that aren't banned yet. No one gave a shit about her teammates because as far as anyone knows they didn't dope up.

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electricbugs2
02/20/22 3:41:38 PM
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Gamerguymass posted...
What the fuck are you talking about? Literally every story was about her doping by having a banned heart drug in her system and then testing positive for two more that aren't banned yet. No one gave a shit about her teammates because as far as anyone knows they didn't dope up.
I actually follow figure skating fam. The IOC president came out the other day and said he was concerned how all three of the girls were treated by the coaching staff after the ladies single event.

Her being doped up is literally the smallest part of the story.

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Unsugarized_Foo
02/20/22 3:46:16 PM
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There goes China stealing our hard work again

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Axiom
02/20/22 3:48:47 PM
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Only boomers care about the Olympics
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Guerrilla Soldier
02/20/22 3:50:59 PM
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there were olympics to care about?
wait, we're supposed to care about olympic results now?

do the games serve any purpose other than creating a couple celebrities every few years?

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Hop103
02/20/22 3:51:53 PM
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At least the west is still beating China, and thus the western world are all winners.

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Gamerguymass
02/20/22 8:10:37 PM
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electricbugs2 posted...
I actually follow figure skating fam. The IOC president came out the other day and said he was concerned how all three of the girls were treated by the coaching staff after the ladies single event.

Her being doped up is literally the smallest part of the story.

I can't tell if this is a serious post. Have you not been paying attention to the news at all for the past week? Every news broadcast, including the broadcasters at the Olympics, were talking about her doping. Just because the IOC president says something after the competition is over doesn't mean all the other comments and broadcasts never happened.

What the IOC president said is literally the smallest part of the story. You clearly don't follow figure skating at all. I did t even watch most of it and I saw constant stories about her doping. When I did turn it on that's all they would say. You have no idea what you are talking about.

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Solid Snake07
02/20/22 8:15:39 PM
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sktgamer_13dude posted...
And you wonder why she didnt want to compete for the US.


Probably the endorsements. Money talks

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Background_Guy
02/20/22 8:24:42 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
The people who claim not to care about the Olympics sure seem quick to forget that when they read headlines like this
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VigorouslySwish
02/21/22 9:31:19 AM
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https://menafn.com/1103735303/NBC-ratings-decline-during-the-Winter-Olympicsdescribed-as-a-disaster-for-the-network&source=22

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brestugo
02/21/22 9:37:12 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
A couple of players switching which nation they represent is really a drop in the bucket compared to all the problems this Olympics had with cheating, overly long quarantine periods for foreign athletes, garbage food served to anyone in quarantine, flooded athlete dorms that weren't fixed, and competing in conditions as cold as negative 35 with wind chill. And that doesn't even get into all the instances caught on video of Chinese athletes blatantly cheating and the judges ruling in their favor.
I heard the food was bad all around. South Korea airlifted food in to their athletes it was so bad.

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