Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 News

[dcro 10,179]

14 hours ago, intoronto said:

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

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

[Dragon 1,701]

4 hours ago, dcro said:

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

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

Boxers from  , wrestlers from , gymnasts from  ,fencers and gymnasts from  , badminton from  ....

[Monzanator 3,595]

has oil money so they can buy whomever they want to

[Dragon 1,701]

24 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

has oil money so they can buy whomever they want to

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

[NearPup 2,164]

1 hour ago, Dragon said:

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

Boxers from  , wrestlers from , gymnasts from  ,fencers and gymnasts from  , badminton from  ....

They bought the boxer from but they couldn't buy the judges (still bitter 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 suddenly became the best boxing country in the world for reasons obviously unrelated to corruption)

[Federer91 2,140]

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

[Fly_like_a_don 936]

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

[NearPup 2,164]

25 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

It's always fun to mock  ,but then there were people pretty much begging that New Zealand biathlete to switch nations a few days ago.  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.

[hckošice 13,264]

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 ?

[rybak 2,694]

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

 

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