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Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 News


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14 hours ago, intoronto said:

Another fun fact: **NONE** of :AZE's Winter Olympians were actually born there.

Probably the same could be said about Winter Olympians from many nations. :p

#banbestmen

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4 hours ago, dcro said:

Probably the same could be said about Winter Olympians from many nations. :p

Problem with :AZE is that half their Summer Olympians are imported too.

Boxers from :CUB , wrestlers from :BUL, gymnasts from :UKR ,fencers and gymnasts from :ROC , badminton from :INA ....

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24 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

:AZE has oil money so they can buy whomever they want to :dunno:

67th in the medal table in Tokyo means they're not buying the right people... :facepalm:

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1 hour ago, Dragon said:

Problem with :AZE is that half their Summer Olympians are imported too.

Boxers from :CUB , wrestlers from :BUL, gymnasts from :UKR ,fencers and gymnasts from :ROC , badminton from :INA ....

They bought the boxer from :CUB but they couldn't buy the judges (still bitter :AZE:CUB Sotomayor lost the final in Rio 2016 totally unfairly, I never thought I'd get so upset to see an Azeri import lose at the Olympics - that was the Olympics where :UZB suddenly became the best boxing country in the world for reasons obviously unrelated to corruption)

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It's always fun to mock :AZE ,but then there were people pretty much begging that New Zealand biathlete to switch nations a few days ago. :rolleyes: And there were some other names mentioned as well in the past weeks by my recollection.  

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25 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

It's always fun to mock :AZE ,but then there were people pretty much begging that New Zealand biathlete to switch nations a few days ago. :rolleyes: And there were some other names mentioned as well in the past weeks by my recollection.  

He was born an American citizen, that’s not quite the same.

 

A better analogy is a large part of the US long distance running teams, which has a lot if athletes who used their running ability as a means to immigrate to the US. Or Bobsleigh for Canada (fun fact: 2 of Canada’s 3 male pilots at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Olympics are Australians, one of whom actually competed for Australia in 2010). That one is kind of funny - since Calgary was arguably the best training environment in the world when it still had an operational track, a lot of athletes from warm climates moved there to train, and a few of them ended up becoming Canadian citizens and switching to representing Canada internationally since that provides better opportunities in terms of funding and available teammates.

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2 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

So for the second consecutive time , olympics.live will show the Winter Olympics live in South Asia . 

will they cover everything ?

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I'm so busy lately, so, I don't know if it was mentioned already but :KEN withdrew from upcoming Games :( 

 

https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/other-sports/kenya-withdraws-from-beijing-winter-olympics-3686330

 

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