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Karolina Koszewska won her first fight.

I see those stereotypes about Iran are still very much alive

Found a two-part on twitter. I'm sure the whole segment will resurface on YT sooner or later

This is the ugly truth. We've seen this with Tibet at Beijing OG 2008. Nobody cares about Tibet anymore, it's been ruled out as a lost cause by just about everyone. How Japanese people treat Japanese citizens with only one Japanese parent is totally up to Japanese people (surprise, surprise). Japan survived 200+ years of the Sakoku policy, they are master isolationists and will be just fine without the world's approval.

And even less people even know that. At the end of the day people will go back to their own things no matter what happens. This is how life goes.

And in five weeks nobody will remember those words again And we'll go back to 'Sayonara' being the most popular Japanese word globally

Well, it's a global event after all. 99% of people in the world have no clue what a hafu is and they don't care about that either.

Random trivia from Poland. Malgorzata Cybulska (equestrian) was handed a flag so she waved that during the ceremony

Not exactly bold. Everyone knows she and Matsuyama will be the faces of these Games for Japan

Neah, it's the same for everyone. No need for asteriks. Montreal 1976 was boycotted by 20+ African countries and nobody gives a damn about that anymore.

The number of posts in the Political Thread has decreased dramatically ever since Biden became President. The left-wingers achieved their goal and are sitting quiet and keep their fingers crossed this honeymoon period lasts forever

I'm pretty sure there is xenophobia between China, Japan & Korea over past history too. Old demons will always live on no matter what the current agendas are.

Since when Canadians are experts on Japanese politics anyway?

Even equality has it's borders. Osaka is the undisputed money girl of the global sport like tennis. No offense to Matsuyama but USA has enough own top golfers not to give a damn about him. Whereas Osaka covers both the US & Asian market. She's a marketing man's dream. And she's also a woman which negates the alleged sexist masculine advantage. She checks off every single liberal, political, BLM or what have you box. All this 21 years after Cathy Freeman lighting the caludron and she's barely even remembered these days. Watch Ashleigh Barty light the cauldron in Brisbane 2032

Not a bad name. Waiting for the Angels vs Guardians divine derby

The modern short-attention span generation probably doesn't even know who Freeman is. She came to the spotlight w/o the political corectness advantage and sadly because that was in the pre-social media era it's like she never existed.

Money talks. Osaka has insane BIg Tech support in USA & Asia. For being viewed as a traditional country Japan went with the Big Tech latest trend.

Will she answer the journalists questions this time? Obviously in English, not in Japanese?

Osaka barely speaks Japanese I suppose her mental health is doing okay now?

Yeah, Osaka. Who else?

It was rumoured she will be a part of the torch relay so it makes sense. The question is will she be the last person in the relay?

And there goes my Nomura pick I'll be disappointed if it's Naomi Osaka...

Okay, the human pictograms are cool. One guy has to remember all 50 events in the right order?

Bach still talking? Someone pull the damn plug!

I had General Daimos & Captain Tsubasa as my childhood cartoons