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5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Have athletes in your countries said anything about the organization and such in China? Yesterday I saw an interview with Dutch skier Adriana Jelinkova, who said she had never been so lost in her life as she was on the way to some place to train  

 

"The organization is.....not so great, to be honest. It's all super confusing and every direction you're pointed in and every thing you are supposed to do conflicts with other things the next person says. You have to go there, but when you're 'there', you have to go somewhere else, and so on. And also, basically nobody related to the organization or something speaks any English at all, so that doesn't help. At least they seem friendly.."

I thought there's a draconian banned imposed to the athletes from saying negative things about China as reported by western media. What is the truth?

3 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

As a person who has experiences quite enough in journalist world ..... Just wonder why to release such a article.  I know there might be some ppl doubting this issue in the world but releasing such kind of article is kinda what they want .... https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202201/29/WS61f52f96a310cdd39bc842e8.html

 

As for me, we can already see some athletes, personnel and other people who tested positive after arriving to Beijing but there has been silence about Chinese athletes so far ..... I don't want to offend of our Chinese members here in totallympics or anywhere else ..... But what if a Chinese athlete or team member gets covid positive? Will it be released into the world of media or social media? Can everybody be sure that Chinese authorities will not just try to cover the positive covid test result and let the athlete compete because he/she is a medal contestant? Me, after living in China for almost 7 years, I have always been hoping for the good changes. And as I see some pre-Olympic feedback from athletes and others, it looks good. I just truly hope everything will stay FAIR PLAY from the Chinese side. Because I honestly wish them to organize successful Olympics in fair play spirit without any cover ups..... Nobody is interested in second Sochi and their "sample swapping game" .... So I truly hope for their fair play Games by all means. Because this is the only way, how they can earn more respect from the entire world. 

 

加油· !!

You do know how strict China is when it comes to the virus, they lock doen a city for one month until the virus is wiped out. Citizens are very compliant at the restrictions there. No wonder their athletes dont test positive, their athletes takes the threat of the virus seriously. 

Some are sounding like antivaxxers here with the conspiracy theory.

27 minutes ago, dcro said:

Mostly just neighbours who are too scared to not attend.

I did not know that China has neighbors in the center of EU. 

Anyway I like the rooms for the athletes, plus the bed here is better compared to the last one.

Russia, Putin's presence will give the Russian players the extra boost needed to achieve the ice hockey gold.

5 hours ago, dcro said:

Grand total of 10 athletes between these nations. Many of them 0, including Tajikistan with all those magnificant mountains....

You have to admit that the high number of leaders attending Beijing is shocking if you consider the omicron threat and the boycott push from the west. Just shows how powerful China is becoming.

If your countries have tens of thousands of cases and even hundreds of thousands daily like some countries in europe and north america, then the Chinese tests are definitely accurate for athletes from such countries. Please understand that there will be no special treatment in Beijing since such testing is necessary for the safety of the Chinese people.

This grandslam is so lowkey, after the Djokovic saga, only a few seems to care about this.

Russia, the 5 Central Asian countries, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Poland, Luxembourg, Serbia, Monaco, Argentina, Ecuador, Mongolia, Pakistan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Papua New Guinea, Azerbaijan, Greece will send their leaders to the Beijing opening ceremony. Others may follow.

Lmao, why would China prepare an extravagant venue for a sport that only 0.0000001% of the 1.4 Billion Chinese care about aka ice hockey. 

Guiness world records has some of the most random records out there like the first Olympic use of artificial snow which happened in the lake placid olympics in usa in 1980.  This is probably where Beijing got the in idea of using artificial snow.

Sochi, everyone can't stop talking about it during that time. That's impact.

Queen of Tennis Wan Qiang easily prevail over her american foe. 

8 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

The PLA is going to be busy, then.

Busy celebrating the second most successful olympics ever after Beijing 2008.

China should ban unvaccinated western athletes just like what Australia is doing. Such move is harsh but it' for the safety of the general public anyway.

Some are cia/pentagon officials though so they must be careful when it comes to approving such requests considering the current situation right now.

US applies for visas for officials to attend the olympic games despite their diplomatic boycott. 

Hopefully, this means another secured gold for Russia.

Brazil is next.

Only hundred cases per day, no lockdown. Business as usual, all you have to do is wear a mask. Vaccination highly encouraged and is still ongoing. 

Olympics is now like your usual regional multisport event where every edition, random sports are being added.

12 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Well, sort of.

 

More than 40 camels have been disqualified from a Saudi beauty pageant after dozens of the animals were given Botox, face lifts and muscle-boosting hormones. 
 

The beauties were booted in one of the biggest ever crackdowns at the Abdulaziz Camel Festival where breeders compete for some £49 million in prize money.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10287827/More-40-camels-disqualified-49million-Saudi-beauty-pageant-BOTOX.html

 

By february, at least 20 will declare a diplomatic boycott while 170+ will throw their full support. Congratulations to China for another successful olympics. 

Another day another win, congratulations China.

The "international community" (20+ countries), although not invited will declare a "diplomatic only" boycott to make a "strong stand" against China.