• cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    The medal counts are inflated in favor of certain countries anyway because some disciplines like swimming have dozens of different medals that you can get, and if you have people that are really good at swimming you can already count on double digit medal counts just from that. Also it helps them a lot that they excluded Russia who have some of the best athletes in the world.

    The Olympics has always been a Western centric thing and now it's becoming even more so. Europe is wildly over-represented compared to the global south. So what's even the point of watching what's largely just a Euro-American circlejerk plus a couple of token other countries? It's a miracle that they haven't kicked China out yet so it can just be the Anglo-Europeans plus their little poodles Japan and South Korea.

    • CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      The picture is pretty low res but it looks like the flags line up with the Comprehensive Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.

      The countries are not really that culturally tied or part of a real geopolitical block.

      The only reason they have done this I think is to make the EU grouping seem less obviously cope by having another grouping on the board.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Because Hong Kong maintains its own separate Olympic team which is grandfathered in, and also explicitly allowed by the PRC stipulations they handled the reintegration of Hong Kong.

      They are two separate teams.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlM
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      5 months ago

      lol right, they split an actual country up and then merged a bunch of countries into EU into one, might as well just put NATO on the scoreboard at this point

      • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        Hong Kong’s team and China’s team are two separate and distinct entities at the Olympics. China specifically outlined that they were alright with that back in 1997.

          • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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            5 months ago

            No? The Olympics treat them as separate entities because at the Olympics they are separate entities. This is a tableau of medal counts, and Hong Kong’s team operates independently of China’s as an independent entity.

              • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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                5 months ago

                Hong Kong has maintained their own independent Olympic team since 1952. During the handover of the territory in 1997, China outlined in the treaty that incorporated Hong Kong and later the Hong Kong constitution in Article 151, Chapter 7 of the Basic Law,

                May, on its own, maintain and develop relations and conclude and implement agreements with foreign states and regions and relevant international organizations in the appropriate fields, including the economic, trade, financial and monetary, shipping, communications, tourism, cultural and sports fields"

                I really don’t get what’s so hard to understand here. At the Olympics, they are two separate entities with two separate Olympic committees.