• RandyLahey [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    ive been looking through all the very angry posts on the r/olympics sub (soooooo much racism), and cant find the longer video but from what i can gather from the occasional informed-looking post:

    • there have been a number of decisions in the short track yesterday that various nationalists are up in arms about (especially south koreans)
    • apparently short track has convoluted rules that are counter intuitive to outsiders and theres a long history of exactly this sort of judging dispute
    • a lot of disqualifications came from actions that were separate from the actions in the videos that the redditors were posting
    • the people who seem to know their shit suggest all the judgements were reasonable
    • also at least one chinese skater got disqualified on a similarly close call
    • and also none of the judges are chinese

    but We Did It Reddit a bunch of people who never watched short track before in their lives discovered a nefarious ccp plot to cheat because the celestial brainpan is unable to cope with the loss of face from an athlete not winning