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Re: Olympics
DIR By: rp
Date: February 7, 2022, 9:03 pm
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"Whites" mad that China doesn't give them special treatment for
bring "White":
HTML https://nypost.com/2022/02/07/olympians-complain-about-food-isolation-rooms-at-winter-games/amp/
Keep complaining, crackers. (Notice that in the article it is
mostly athletes from Turandom countries doing this)
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 9, 2022, 2:33 am
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In contrast:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MtHt3r8o_o
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: rp
Date: February 9, 2022, 2:40 am
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Face shape of the complainer (bottom left):
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: Zhang Caizhi
Date: February 10, 2022, 9:42 am
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Now, I see Hungarian brothers skaters who want to celebrate both
of their parents heritage.
Link:
HTML https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3165478/winter-olympics-speed-skater-liu-shaolin-hopes-wave-special-chinese
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> Winter Olympics: speed skater Liu Shaolin hopes to wave
special Chinese-Hungarian flag in Beijing, ‘50 per cent for
China, 50 per cent for Hungary’
> Shaolin and his brother Shaoang have a Chinese father and
Hungarian mother and will defend their speedskating 5,000m title
in Beijing
> Their mother stitched together the flags of China and Hungary
into a special banner which the brothers hope can be displayed
at the Games
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 12, 2022, 7:58 pm
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Honestly, what did you expect?
HTML https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dmQ-SsiY-tM/maxresdefault.jpg
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/skater-did-test-positive-making-094951861.html
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> Skater Did Test Positive for Banned Drug, Making Mockery of
IOC Decision to Let Russians Compete
>
> The young Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva did indeed test
positive for a banned heart drug, it was confirmed Friday.
> ...
> That revelation makes a mockery of IOC claims to be tackling
doping properly, and calls into question the decision to let
Russian athletes compete at the Olympics despite proven
state-sponsored doping. And it led to a warning from the head of
the U.S. anti-doping agency that U.S. prosecutors might directly
target Russian individuals involved in the skater’s case if they
are not held to account.
> ...
> On Monday, Valieva became the first woman to land quad jumps
in Olympic competition as she led the Russians to team gold in
the opening event in Beijing with a performance that marked her
out as the sport's brightest new star.
>
> Next day, however, as the Russians prepared to collect their
gold medals, news finally reached Beijing she had tested
positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, which is
usually used to treat angina but can be used to improve blood
flow and boost endurance.
>
> According to the timeline given by the ITA, Talieva was
provisionally suspended by the Russian anti-doping agency that
same day. The suspension was lifted on appeal on Wednesday by a
Russian disciplinary panel, allowing her to resume training in
Beijing yesterday.
>
> Now that decision is itself being challenged by the
International Olympic Committee, which is appealing at the
Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport for her to be barred
from next week’s individual figure skating competition. The
Russians could have their team medal stripped from them and it
handed to their American rivals—although they insist it was won
fairly.
>
> Confirmation of the failed drugs test comes as a huge blow for
the IOC, which was much criticized for allowing Russian athletes
to compete at last year’s Tokyo Summer Games and in Beijing
despite Russia itself being banned from international events
because of systematic doping.
>
> Under a messy compromise, the athletes compete under the
banner of the Russian Olympic Committee rather than Russia
itself—although they still consider themselves a team and
Russian President Vladimir Putin proudly joined the guests of
honor at the Beijing opening ceremony.
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Turanians will take as much as the rest of the world lets them
get away with taking. Hitler was correct all along.
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 14, 2022, 12:55 am
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And the conclusion is..... it's OK to be a "white" athlete:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/sports/kamila-valieva-wins-appeal-will-continue-to-compete-at-olympic-games-060106056.html
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> Likewise, Russia will almost assuredly keep the gold medal it
won in the team competition earlier in the Olympics.'
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Would anyone like to assassinate her now? This is the only way
there will ever be any accountability.
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: Zhang Caizhi
Date: February 14, 2022, 1:51 am
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I read that she is of Tatar ethnicity born in Kazan.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamila_Valieva
Tatars people are mostly Muslims. Not sure if she is.
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 14, 2022, 8:51 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/sports/slap-face-kamila-valieva-decision-060700578.html
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> What a slap in the face the Kamila Valieva decision is for
athletes who don't cheat
>
> BEIJING – What a dark day this is for the Olympic Games and
the thousands of athletes who play by the rules and do not cheat
by taking performance-enhancing drugs.
>
> The Court of Arbitration for Sport has spoken, and it has made
an awful decision: Russia’s 15-year-old superstar Kamila
Valieva, who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug
less than two months ago, will be allowed to continue to compete
in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
> ...
> It was a remarkable few hours at these Olympic Games. What a
slap in the face the CAS decision was for every athlete
everywhere who has done the right thing, who has asked to be
tested more to prove they are not cheating, who have lived their
lives for a level playing field, people like Katie Ledecky,
Michael Phelps and Michelle Kwan.
>
> And what a devastatingly awful message this is to the
Russians: Keep doping, especially your minor athletes. You’ll
get away with it on a technicality every time.
>
> The Olympic Games lost today. Clean sport lost. Cheating won.
Russia’s state-sponsored doping system won. The bad guys won.
>
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My thoughts exactly. I only differ in that I, unlike this
author, have no sympathy for Valieva herself:
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> It’s natural to have two conflicting thoughts on the status of
this 15-year-old: sadness and anger on her behalf for what the
adults in her life did to her, and even more sadness and anger
about a decision allowing someone who used an illegal substance
to continue to compete in these Games.
>
> You can feel sorry for Valieva and still know that the CAS
decision is wrong, very wrong.
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No. Nothing is stopping Valieva from deciding herself to
withdraw from competition in order to avoid exercising her
unfair advantage over the other competitors. This would have
been the unhesitating response of any honourable athlete after
discovering that they have been receiving performance-enhancing
drugs. But she has not withdrawn. This makes her no better than
the rest of the dopers. She may or may not have initially
decided to be doped, but she sure has no problems reaping the
benefits of doping!
HTML https://i.imgflip.com/64v6zd.jpg
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: guest55
Date: February 14, 2022, 9:02 pm
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Fascinating the correlation of the above story to the fact that
"to dope" is literally a synonym of the word 'adulterated'....
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Re: Olympics
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 14, 2022, 11:47 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/dirty-cheaters-olympians-let-loose-223905823.html
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> 'Dirty Cheaters.' Olympians Let Loose on Kamila Valieva and
the Russian Doping Controversy at the Beijing Olympics
> ...
> “Dirty cheaters, and we are accommodating them,” says Adam
Rippon, who helped the U.S. win a team figure skating bronze at
the 2018 Games. “I don’t know how the Olympics recovers from
this.”
> ...
> “They shouldn’t be here at the Olympic Games,” Rippon says of
the Russian team’s repeated doping violations. “They’re clowns.”
> ...
> The repeated doping violations from Russian athletes have been
a plague on the Olympic movement and its professed to commitment
to clean competition and a level playing field. “I feel sick to
my stomach. What I’m feeling is my whole dedication to my sport,
to my community and to my country — I’m questioning it all,”
says retired Canadian skater Scott Moir, a two-time Olympic gold
medalist in ice dance. “I’m questioning why I walked into
schools for the past 12 years of my life and told kids what
pride I took in being an Olympian and what that means, and what
power sports has in bringing the world together, for fair play
and the Olympic morals that we all believe in.”
> ...
> Rippon agrees, and points out the stark contrast with how
RUSADA handled Valieva’s violation, by initially suspending her
from competing in Beijing but then lifting that suspension, to
the way the US Anti-Doping Agency managed the case of star
sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson before the Tokyo Olympics last
summer. Richardson tested positive for marijuana just before the
Games began, and was banned from competing. “It really shows how
Americans deal with it, and how and how RUSADA deals with it —
they don’t,” he says. “They pretend it doesn’t happen, and
pretend that people are picking on them.” Richardson herself
reacted to the news that Valieva will continue to compete,
raising yet another issue affecting social tensions, by noting
“the only difference I see is I’m a black young lady. It’s all
in the skin.”
>
> Critics have said that the doping issue, particularly with the
seemingly constant violations among Russian athletes, can be
traced to weak sanctions for breaking the rules. “A complete and
total ban from all international competition is the only thing
that works,” says Rippon. “It’s heartbreaking to think about the
athletes who have spent their lives training, but the Olympics
took a big blow today and I don’t know how it recovers from
this. A lot of people have lost faith in the Olympics and in
clean sport.”
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HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/beijing-olympics-kamila-valieva-decision-outrages-figure-skaters-234744980.html
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> 'A permanent scar on our sport': Figure skaters outraged over
Kamila Valieva verdict
> ...
> "The panel considered that preventing the athlete to compete
at the Olympic Games would cause her irreparable harm in the
circumstances," CAS Director General Matthieu Reeb said.
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What about the irreparable harm to all the other athletes and to
the sport as a whole that has been caused by letting her
compete?
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> The world of figure skating reacted with near-unanimous
outrage to the CAS’s decision:
> ...
> Rippon’s fellow 2018 teammate and bronze medalist Bradie
Tennell also shared a similar message about how the decision
presented an attack on the sport’s reputation.
>
>
[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLks7ZeXIBAQ2_m?format=jpg&name=medium[/img]
> ...
> Former Canadian Olympic gold medalist and two-time pairs world
champion Meagan Duhamel shared Rippon and Tennell’s sentiments,
adding that she wants nothing to do with the sport if doping is
allowed.
>
> How is anyone going to take the women’s event seriously now?
We were just told illegal drugs and abuse are okay. If that is
what this sport is about now, I want nothing to do with it.
> February 14 2022. The day the Olympic spirit died.
> ...
> Many U.S. figure skaters drew comparisons to teammate Jessica
Calalang’s anti-doping suspension, applied by the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in February 2021, before the 2021
national championships. Calalang’s suspension was overturned in
September 2021, after 4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid (4-CPA), the
banned substance, was found to be commonly found in cosmetic
products she was using.
> ...
> Jessica was suspended for MONTHS. Protocol can change from
athlete to athlete??? NO.
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This is Calalang:
HTML https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oXmV5hh_rYU/maxresdefault.jpg
Can you figure out why the protocol was different for her than
for Valieva? (Hint: see Richardson's comment above.)
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