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The 2012 Olympics
pwhodges:
I have a lot of sympathy for that view. I find the jingoism distasteful - it feels like leapfrogging on the athletes' achievements and claiming them for "their country".
Patrick:
The Olympics are a much more acceptable form of nationalist pride than, say, genocide. While I 100% agree with Morrissey's side of the debate, I think he could have made a much better example. He simply sounds like a U.S. Tea Partier when he flips out and goes straight to Hitler like that.
Skaltura:
Oh London ... men's discus throwing champion Robert Harting (GER) got robbed on the way from a late night party back to the Olympic village, they stole his equipment and all his athlete's accreditations and he had to spend the night sleeping on a chair in a rail station because getting a replacement took hours and they would not let the olympic champion back into any venues or the Olympic village. :psyduck:
Akima:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 07 Aug 2012, 07:48 ---I have a lot of sympathy for that view. I find the jingoism distasteful - it feels like leapfrogging on the athletes' achievements and claiming them for "their country".
--- End quote ---
Well... Arguably the "totalitarian model" of the Olympics has triumphed. State funding (whether from taxation, or government-approved crypto-taxes like national lotteries) is poured like a river into the quest for sporting glory. Promising youngsters are identified and raised in hot-houses like the Australian Institute Of Sport. The whole approach was pioneered by Nazi Germany, East Germany, the Soviet Union etc., and is of course standard in China today.
On the other hand Morrisey is a racist jerk who thinks Chinese people are a "sub-species", so he can just fuck off.
Blue Kitty:
Holy fuck, women's beach volleyball yesterday. USA really pulled it together and beat Brazil, but it made me feel bad for Larissa Franca cause it looked like Juliana Felisberta was yelling at her the whole time.
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