It was insightful to read about this methodical and disciplined approach to competition, particularly in a sport that is currently perceived by its core group as being more “fun” and “expressive” than purely competitive.

What is more interesting is not the article itself, but the people who had read the article and twisted/misinterpreted the fundamental message. Hopefully it was through honest misunderstanding and not through blind pride, cultural sensitivity or a sinister agenda.

Even more interesting are the “bandwagon hoppers” who did not even read the article and simply agreed or trusted another person’s interpretation. This is just one of many ways on how Serious Shit(TM) starts between groups of people.”

Twisted/misinterpreted the fundamental message?

Another one said, “The comment is used as a point to note the dramatic and astonishing improvement and change. It’s not racist. The writer of the CIV article is freaking out over nothing. Reminds me of my exes.”

The thing is I don’t see them posting any point-to-point rebuttal on what our blogger here is complaining.

Why is that? Because they employ “reckless disregard of the truth” and “wilful blindness”.

*Do you now understand why the Vancouver airport taser cops don’t think they did anything wrong with Robert Dziekański? Same logic. But how does everyone else feel about it?

“The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.”
Robert Stack (1956 – 2010)
2010 February 18

http://www.revscene.net/forums/globe-and-mail-t606019.html

the argument has always been when u compete against eastern bloc countries u cannot beat them b/c they are state trained and sponsored they are not real amateurs. now u can still hear the same criticism against china fr countries like canada which is not funding her althelets like crazy and does not have very strong professional sports except in hockey

anyway the olympics is about money politics and winning.

“Theories of white privilege assert that the experience of whites is viewed by whites as normal rather than advantaged. This normative assumption causes all discussion of racial inequality to focus on the disadvantages of other racial groups, and on what can be done to bring them up to white (i.e. ‘normal’) standards, effectively making racial inequality an issue that does not involve whites.”

Remember, we are talking about the Olymics here. Every country’s athletes do practicing and training ALL THEIR LIFE, using government money (state-sponsored, “full-time” athletes), just so they can participate in the games.
(It is not like we pick some random people off the street to play the games)

How is it fair for Western countries’ men and women National Ice Hockey team to have players who play professional leagues like NHL, National Women’s Hockey League, Western Women’s Hockey and various European leagues, when national teams from China, Japan, Korea don’t have any professional leagues in their countries?

And what about all those Western countries’ athlete who are caught using performance-enhancing drugs? Oh geez, why did they do THAT? Why are they so desperate to WIN?

We understand them very well. Why would they want to be fair? Nope. They only want–”pride and supremacy” wherever and whenever they can get.

the article is not being untruthful though. when the korean women golfers started to win all these LPGA tournaments the americans called them the korean invasion. the koreans dominated the LPGA for a while but now other players have risen up to the challenge.

looking at it objectively, this is how sports evolved going fr fun to fierce competition going from sportsmanship to gamesmanship. the fun level is reduced when people become more and more competitive.

i think bias is not the right word to describe the western press. hypocritical is a better word. because of all the competitors in the world none is as competitive as the americans and none wants to win at all costs as much as the americans.

get over it folks this is the white world its their standards u are being measured against. be grateful if u can beat them in their own games and they do not change the rules on u. sports is one such area. there are not too many areas where once u show u can beat them and they do not change the rules on u.

with china being ruled by a bunch of corrupt totalitarians and many of the oversea chinese becoming their ever forgiving supporters. good luck to u with respect to your constant ranting about western superiority.

the difference between the west and china is like this. in the west its system of government has the time proven ability to fool people by making them believe in the system. in china , the system has less credibility and it feels more insecure about its ability to fool people so it wants to produce fools from the outset. mao resorted to burning books. the current regime resort to producing fools under two categories: consumerism and nationalism.

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Jason, in the name of democracy, human rights and equality, would you please give some examples of the colloquial English that you are talking about?

And please also explain what is being misunderstood. Thanks.

fyi, I am chinese.