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2022 Beijing Olympics: Don't Mention the Slaves

MichVandal said:
Given the last min change in who is playing, I didn't expect the US to win their group. Not bad.
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And the 1 seed in the knockout round. But that’s helped by having China in the group.

Quarters:
9 Germany vs 8 Slovakia. Winner plays the US.
12 China vs 5 Canada in a back to back game rematch. Winner plays Sweden.
11 Latvia vs 6 Denmark. Winner plays ROC.
10 Switzerland vs 7 Czechia. Winner plays Finland.
 
aparch said:
I just noticed something odd thanks to some international athletes I follow on Instagram.

There is a division on social media in referencing the Olympic games. Chinese media and "western" media tag the games as #Beijing2022.

Finland, Dutch, Germany, and Estonia athletes/media tag the games as #Peking2022.

And there isn't any overlap where both tags are used in the same post.
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There was a similar split in Torino. Some anglicized it to Turin, others didn't.
 
MichVandal said:
Given the last min change in who is playing, I didn't expect the US to win their group. Not bad.
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The same last minute change applied to the Canadians as well. And last minute change or not, there was no way Germany or China were going to win the group. So, one of the North American teams with a last minute change were going to win the group. Ergo, not a surprise. :-)
 
Russell Jaslow said:
The same last minute change applied to the Canadians as well. And last minute change or not, there was no way Germany or China were going to win the group. So, one of the North American teams with a last minute change were going to win the group. Ergo, not a surprise. :-)
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True, but given this is Canada's game, one could think that they had more depth to choose from.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
The same last minute change applied to the Canadians as well. And last minute change or not, there was no way Germany or China were going to win the group. So, one of the North American teams with a last minute change were going to win the group. Ergo, not a surprise. :-)
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Dude, the US is playing 15 college kids and started a 19 year old in net for two games.
 
So NBC pays billions for Olympics rights, billions for NFL rights and spot in the Super Bowl rotation, millions to ABC to trade for this Super Bowl to get a lead in to Olympics coverage and they're showing fucking ice dancing?
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
IOC says no medal ceremony will take place if Valieva finishes in the top three of the remaining events, including team events.
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What kind of message is that??? "You can compete, but if you win, everyone loses"?

Let alone the idea of doping being actually bad thing.

Not that I was planning on watching any more skating, but I'm not sure how much more of this farce overall I want to watch.
 
Canada won their quarterfinal 11-0 and their semifinal 10-3.

US snuck away with a misleading 4-1 win in the quarters and now it’s only 1-0 midway through against Finland. And that’s with a PP goal on a bad call. Hold on and only one game matters, but not a great knockout round for the US.
 
MichVandal said:
What kind of message is that??? "You can compete, but if you win, everyone loses"?

Let alone the idea of doping being actually bad thing.

Not that I was planning on watching any more skating, but I'm not sure how much more of this farce overall I want to watch.
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Sounds like the IOC is actually, for once, trying to do the right thing and the CAS and WADA is completely fucking them over.
 
Chinese curling skip is a cutie.

Last two games, they defeated both the gold and silver winners from the 2018 games, but they played just terribly all game against the Japanese team, conceding after the 8th end, down 10-2.
 
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