2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing

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getready said:
They are bad losers.

Two of their skaters got DQed. One of them was the race favourite I guess. Their third skater was injured in a race by accident and had to quit.

Apparently the family of Korean coach for the Chinese team was also abused in Korean social media. The SK team spokesman also complained about the track.

Not to mention the south Korean media also added fire to the oil by apparently doing this. I'm not sure if this fake news or not. But it's really small time and bitter.

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Yeah it’s rich coming from referee beaters.

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getready

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victoon said:
I hope Peng, China's first lady, can host a dinner for all Chinese winter Olympians and give Zhu Yi a hug in front of camera. that would shut up the online bullies and be a great PR move.
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I dun know if that will really help the situation. Chinese netizens usually are very encouraging and forgiving these days. Gone are the days of liu xiang attracting online abuse. I won't include the men's football team for obvious reason however, Nowadays if the national team athletes fail, Chinese netizens large majority are very understanding and supportive.

In Zhu's case, it's more complicated, the ire is mostly directed at her supposedly special status and favoured treatment due to her scientist dad. Which some people think robbed a more worthy and talented Chinese skater of a place in the team to give to her for this Olympics. Is there credible evidence in this? I dun know. But it seems this is the root issue.

I have noticed though these accusations happen quite frequently. They just automatically assumed internal politics are behind decisions made about who are chosen to represent the national team. It's hard to argue with them though. I tried.

During the Tokyo Olympics, netizens raged on sports personnel decisions made by the table tennis team, the women volleyball team and men's gymnastic team. I have seen it on weibo.
The Western media just didn't care that time cuz they dun have the story they want.
 
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tygyg1111 said:
Deep down I think a large proportion of S Koreans (as with Japanese) genuinely, viscerally hate America, it's just that there's nothing they can do about it without making themselves 'unfashionable' and throwing away any chance they had of making it upwards in their societies, given their 'boss'. So they willingly kiss ass.
However, once the US loses it's grip on them (probably within most of our lifetimes) they will probably turn out to be the most anti-American / anti-western groups in Asia. They just need a catalyst.
Case in point the "rooting for China" piece posted here, and also the Koreans mega-butthurt re: hanbok and speed skating DQ's that was fanned on by their media (taking guesses as to whether there was 'encouragement' from a certain other butthurt country out there (no not India)
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Same with Taiwanese, they hate American very much, but nothing they can do about it
 
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SanWenYu said:
I cannot understand what he is angry about. It's a common practice to turn old industrial buildings into entainment and recreational facilities. He'd be an idiot for really thinking those cooling towers were for nuclear powerplant. Though I wouldn't mind it if he puts his "venture capital" money where his mouth is.

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Lol it's a defunct steel mill, hyperboloid cooling tower is a common feature when you need industrial scale cooling, such as nuclear power plant, conventional power plant, oil refinery and... steel mills
 
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SanWenYu said:
I cannot understand what he is angry about. It's a common practice to turn old industrial buildings into entainment and recreational facilities. He'd be an idiot for really thinking those cooling towers were for nuclear powerplant. Though I wouldn't mind it if he puts his "venture capital" money where his mouth is.

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Considering those are cooling towers for a steel mill and conventional power plants also have similar towers. That is why you can't automatically make idols out of rich people, many are pretty disgusting people.

People of these "advance" nations /s can't get it into their brain that the olypmics is just a bunch of entertainment courses to perform events...like you can make a skating rink in Florida duh, it doesn't have to be in New York and open only in the winter. Its also not a remote mountain survival course...
 
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