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.

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

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.

I read someone say the pool they're using isn't as deep as previously and there's more turbulence or something as a result and it makes it harder to swim

which means china is owning even harder

lmao the seething that's happening on lemmy.ml right now https://lemmy.ml/post/18885362

Americans, Euros, and Aussies: “Noooooo those asians beat us that one time in swimming. They must be doping!!!1”

Meanwhile, the US swim team:

What sucks is that this bullshit makes me cynical and tired when relatively normal Americans do cool things to. Sorry Simon Biles, your comment about sportsmanship being important falls flat as hell when the only thing that matters and is shown is when Americans do well, not to mention when your Olympic peers repeatedly demonstrate their inability to compete. I don't know her politics, beliefs or whatever but it's so frustrating when athletes get who may or may not understand their cynical deployment as propaganda get coopted into "America number one" bullshit.

Michael Phelps is a weed and turkey consuming machine that was apparently genetically crafted specifically to swim and do bong rips.

The "Phelps Diet" SNL sketch was pretty amazing as well.

This country would probably be a lot better if we were all more like him.

yesterday i wtched a little in german TV and ther was a 3000 m Woman run with a big Jumpy thing , and they keept showing the German Runner "Mayer" that was fighting for place 14 somewhere over there ... nearly the hole duration of the Run while giving the lead way less airtime.. its not double standart , taht pure Racism i think..

China stay winning

This coming from wall to wall purple faces is particularly funny

what i like about olympics is that every time there's something even slightly controversial people have to mention Michael Phelps. let the dude be the goat of swimming in peace.