2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing

getready said:

I recall when the second set of gold medal were awarded to the canadian pair in a follow up medal ceremony, the Chinese silver medalist pair didn't even bother to attend again lol.

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Because several of the IOC board members had left Salt Lake City, there were only nine on hand to vote. Voting yes to the ISU’s gold-medal proposal were R. Kevan Gosper of Australia, Thomas Bach of Germany, Denis Oswald of Switzerland, Gunilla Lindberg of Sweden, Marc Hodler of Switzerland, Toni Khoury of Lebanon and Sergei Bubka, the former world-class pole vaulter, of Ukraine. Voting no was He Zhenliang of China. Abstaining was Vitaly Smirnov of Russia.

According to sources, China’s He did not want the IOC to cave in just because the media applied great pressure. The sources also said Smirnov abstained, and they described this as a politically correct move because the Russian skaters’ victory was central to the dispute. Smirnov also reportedly voiced during the meeting a fear that the Russians would somehow be looked upon as the cause of the improper judging.

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Olympic Win Brings U.S. Skater Nathan Chen Little Love in China​

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U.S. Olympic gold medalist Nathan Chen is an example of how being Chinese-American can be a double-edged sword today in China.

The 22-year-old took the top prize on Thursday at the Winter Olympics in the men’s figure skating event. But his record-beating performance, which sealed Chen’s reputation as the top skater in the world, promoted more castigation on Chinese social media than it did elation.

A hashtag discussing Chen’s victory was the second-highest trending on the Twitter-like Weibo platform shortly after his win. Many of the comments, however, were negative, including some users who decried his performance as mediocre and “ape-like,” while others called him a “banana,” a derogatory term used to describe people of Chinese descent who are Westernized.

Other attacks took on a more nationalistic tone -- Chen was accused of “insulting China” due to an

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before the games in which he spoke about China’s human rights record and said the Olympics were “bringing it to light.” Others criticized him for using music in a 2018 performance from the movie “Mao’s Last Dancer,” which tells the story of a dissident Chinese woman who fled to the U.S.

Meanwhile, in the Chinese-language

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of the event by state news agency Xinhua, Chen’s victory received only two brief mentions, while the headline spotlighted the performance of Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu -- a huge fan favorite in China -- and China’s Jin Boyang. Hanyu finished fourth while Jin was ninth.

This year’s Olympics have highlighted the increasingly fraught atmosphere that American athletes of Chinese heritage must navigate in China, against a backdrop of bubbling tensions between the countries and an increasingly assertive China. By contrast, when Beijing hosted the summer games in 2008, Chinese-American athletes were more warmly welcomed and even seen as ambassadors who could help act as bridges between the two countries.

That welcome is less certain today. One Chinese-American athlete who is wildly popular in China is Eileen Gu, the U.S.-born freestyle skier who decided to compete for China this Olympics and who is on track to win three golds at the games. However, figure skater Zhu Yi, who was similarly born in the U.S. but chose to compete for China, became the target of online abuse after she fell multiple times in competition.

At a news conference following his victory, Chen, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from China, said that he still has lots of family in and close ties to China. When asked about his feelings about the online criticism directed against Chinese-American athletes, he said that he’s stayed off social media in recent days.

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yungho said:

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-10/olympic-win-brings-u-s-skater-nathan-chen-little-love-in-china





I don't know if this has been posted, but this headline is asinine. I'm happy for Chen to win gold, but what did people expect? For China to suck his dick for winning gold for the US? What did they want, for Xinhua to have him on the front page and create a holiday around it? Jfc. I don't want to take away from Chen's success, but this is madness.

And this is all while Americans call Eileen Gu muh traitor and root for her failure. Banana isn't even that derogatory of a term lmao. It's reality for someone like Chen.

It's a shame people are critizing Zhu Yi, as failure is a nature of competition, though I don't often read Chinese forums so I don't even know how true that statement is.

I rarely get triggered at things, but this... I can only laugh at the ridiculousness lol

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"Obviously would have been nice to have a different shade of medal. But knowing that I kind of had the run of the day and one of the best rounds of my life and the whole industry knows what happened — pretty, pretty crazy," McMorris told CBC Sports in a recent interview from China.

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But Parrot, who said he knew he missed his grab right away, insists his run was still worthy of gold.

"I admire Mark, I admire Su ... I think in the end the only difference is they had multiple small mistakes and I only had one, which was definitely bigger, I agree," Parrot said.

"But in the end, it's a judged sport and the fact is I had the most technical run of the day on pretty much every feature. And no, it wasn't perfect, and I think that's why I didn't score 100 either."

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yungho said:

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-10/olympic-win-brings-u-s-skater-nathan-chen-little-love-in-china





I don't know if this has been posted, but this headline is asinine. I'm happy for Chen to win gold, but what did people expect? For China to suck his dick for winning gold for the US? What did they want, for Xinhua to have him on the front page and create a holiday around it? Jfc. I don't want to take away from Chen's success, but this is madness.

And this is all while Americans call Eileen Gu muh traitor and root for her failure. Banana isn't even that derogatory of a term lmao. It's reality for someone like Chen.

It's a shame people are critizing Zhu Yi, as failure is a nature of competition, though I don't often read Chinese forums so I don't even know how true that statement is.

I rarely get triggered at things, but this... I can only laugh at the ridiculousness lol

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victoon said:

beautiful farewell for an amazing man!

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SanWenYu said:

I cannot believe this. The Canadians started in-fighting over the gold medal robbed from Su. Pathetic.

Mark McMorris is shameless:



Max Parrot is no better either:

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