It’s been really hard not to notice that suddenly certain events aren’t being shown dur8ng the primitive block anymore and then you look them up and it’s all the events Chinese people won.
It really is a microcosm of American propoganda. There’s thousands of hours of almost any event you can think of happening but NBC paid millions of dollars so that every night we can have an hour of interviews, an hour of commercials, an hour of “inspiring backstories” and 15 minutes of watching the 6 swimming races and gymnastic disciplines America was competitive in that day.
When I was a kid my dad used to show me the difference between the Canadian feed and the American feed for the Olympics and even decades ago the American channels would basically only focus on American athletes, you’d hardly know there was anyone else competing if it wasn’t for the overlay and scores.
This is one of the reasons I came to dislike following the Olympics: what should be an event to celebrate human achievement in sports becomes grounds for nationalism and chauvinism to fester. I always thought it was nice when anyone would break a world record and be amazed at their achievements, but it’s really jarring to see even people next to me cheering for my country. Idk, just a rant
I honestly think it would be so cool if instead of having national teams, athletes could just choose to associate to international clubs. I don’t know enough about sports or the Olympics to think of how it could be done in a way that makes sense, but it feels really weird that all sporting currently is all about what country is better than others.
There’s literally an option to participate under an international banner, a bunchnof russians did it last time around in the wi ter olympics when they weren’t allowed to represent Russia because of war crimes (weirdly this was the only country that standard has been applied to in the last couple olympics)
chinese athletes are tested for doping significantly more often yet have had 6x less violations than american athletes:
The west has been coasting on their material advantages in sports forever. Now they cry like babies. Hilarious to watch.
