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Olympics Tokyo 2021 - sport
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Send her a Richmond membershipKaylee McKeown. Smashed em. What a gun
Anyone see her interview? "*smile* yeah!!"
Its going well I reckon theyll get it right in time for the Closing Ceremony
If these athletes win at the Olympics, their flag won't be raised and their anthem won't be played. Here's why
The last time Tokyo held the Olympics, Taiwan was able to compete under its own name and flag. But that's no longer the case. Here's why.
www.abc.net.au
This article gives a reasonable summary of the history around this issue.
Thanks for that. I had no idea about any of that. What a joke!
If these athletes win at the Olympics, their flag won't be raised and their anthem won't be played. Here's why
The last time Tokyo held the Olympics, Taiwan was able to compete under its own name and flag. But that's no longer the case. Here's why.
This article gives a reasonable summary of the history around this issue.
Yep it’s brutal. She pants the field in the semi and was quickest down again Excluding penalties.
No surprise. The IOC are just as gutless as the rest of the world and international organisations when it comes to “offending” the CCP
The other ironic point with this. Look up the Taiwan (or ROC) national anthem. A beautiful hymn, sung in Mandarin, but when translated to English is overtly singing about peace and shared humanity being the nation’s raison d’être. I would have thought it a fitting reinforcement of the Olympic movement’s values. Probably the only national anthem of this kind. But I believe they aren’t permitted the national anthem (as well as their flag or identity).
Not sure how the forcing Taiwan to to compete as Rep of China is worse than England forcing Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and probably the Channel Islands to compete as "Great Britain" so that the English have a better chance of seeing themselves in the top 10 countries
Criminal really.
Criminal really.
and so it came to pass 0:0 with neither side pushing for the last 30 minutes... Matildas will probably squeak through in third place and get knocked out in the next round.
You mean Taiwan being forced to compete as Chinese Taipei (ROC is actually one of Taiwan’s preferred names).
But the whole Great Britain thing is not actually similar to CCP governed mainland China vs Taiwan.
One might argue that Northern Ireland may have some very loose parallels. But the rest of the Great Britain example is very, very different.
Saying that Scotland & Wales are “forced” to compete with England as Great Britain to boost England’s medal tally is akin to saying WA or QLD are forced to compete as Australia to boost NSW & Victoria’s medal tally.
Even with Northern Ireland. Athletes aren’t forced to do anything. For many years, residents of NI can choose to have British or Irish citizenship (or dual). And hence their athletes can choose to nominate to compete for their preferred of the two.
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Very very poor showing. I know Belgium are ranked 6th but the Opals were poor.
