Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 23:40     Subject: 2022 Olympics
Is citizenship status public info? I’m assuming some publication will submit a FOIA request if so and we will know what Gu did.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 23:28     Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Greece should always host Summer. With global warming winter is going to become harder to facilitate and they should pick on place and stick with it like the PP stated.

How many of these countries are able to maintain or have a use for all the facilities they build after the games are done? Look at Brazil; the people are living in poverty yet the govt had enough to build these facilities that were never used after the games and now sit to waste away. What's the point?


Totally agree. Greece is summer , Canada is winter and nations all get a chance to be the “host” and highlight their culture. It is not just about the cost to an individual country but the absolute flagrant waste on a planet that is failing.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 23:21     Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Eileen Gu is a pawn. Her mom influences all her decisions. My usband is convinced the mom is a spy


It's entirely possible with the mom and the media shouldn't be so dumb.

I don't think Eileen Gu is a pawn. As has been pointed out, she's very smart and accomplished. You're telling me she can't pick up a newspaper and read about what's going on?

I f'ing guarantee you if she puts a toe out of line and the Chinese decide to detain her that the first call will be to the US Embassy. I don't begrudge her her win, but quaint as it is, I find it unpatriotic for her to be competing under the flag of our greatest global rival. Not a fan.

Prada or Chanel might bail her out


Prada or Chanel toe the line of the CCP. Like every other major international luxury brand. Even the House of Mouse (Disney) doesn't mess with China's leadership. The government will pull a fashion house's products from ALL ecommerce sites and physical stores with a snap of their fingers. That's hundreds of millions in lost market share.


Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 23:11     Subject: Re:2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Mikaela Shiffrin sucks.

That is all.


That is horrible. Nothing you can say will be worse than how she feels.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 23:02     Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Eileen Gu is a pawn. Her mom influences all her decisions. My usband is convinced the mom is a spy


It's entirely possible with the mom and the media shouldn't be so dumb.

I don't think Eileen Gu is a pawn. As has been pointed out, she's very smart and accomplished. You're telling me she can't pick up a newspaper and read about what's going on?

I f'ing guarantee you if she puts a toe out of line and the Chinese decide to detain her that the first call will be to the US Embassy. I don't begrudge her her win, but quaint as it is, I find it unpatriotic for her to be competing under the flag of our greatest global rival. Not a fan.

Prada or Chanel might bail her out
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 23:00     Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lol insane mom was somehow able to raise a world champion, competent pianist, perfect SAT scorer and a Stanford admit. All as a single mother. You should be so lucky.


Sounds like a dreamy recipe for happiness.


You’re being racist, plain and simple. If these stats came from a white UMC girl in jersey, you’d be falling all over yourself with what a great parenting job her family did . But an Asian girl - noooo it’s all tiger mother nightmare.


Have fun in your imaginary world of fake scenarios and baseless accusations.


They are not baseless. All you have to do to discover how white people feel about Asian overachievers is to visit the college or AAP forums. Any Asian achievement is written off as tiger parenting. White achievement, in contrary, is always presented as self driven, and applauded. You're blind if you deny this.


It’s is due to parenting. And it works!

Very very rarely can an internally and intrinsically gifted child do that all alone with 1 or 2 neglectful parents without finding one adult somewhere to push them (coach, church, teacher, counselor who can ID talent and potential).
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 22:52     Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:They did a whole segment on her dad dying last year, so maybe that’s part of it. He was always there photographing her. I’m sure it’s hard for her not to have him cheering her on.


He diedin 2018.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 22:32     Subject: 2022 Olympics
They did a whole segment on her dad dying last year, so maybe that’s part of it. He was always there photographing her. I’m sure it’s hard for her not to have him cheering her on.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 22:26     Subject: Re:2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mikaela Shiffrin sucks.

That is all.


Are her Olympics over?


No, but maybe lots of lost endorsement money.

I expect we’ll hear a lot of Simone Biles-like excuses in the coming days.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 21:42     Subject: 2022 Olympics
All of us waking up in the middle of the night remembering some cringeworthy thing we said in a meeting 20 years ago?

Yeah.... child's play compared to what she has to live with now. Dang.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 21:40     Subject: Re:2022 Olympics
*skied
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 21:38     Subject: Re:2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mikaela Shiffrin sucks.

That is all.


Are her Olympics over?


She has three (I think) more events.

These were her best events, skies out both times.

Monumental disappointment.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 21:33     Subject: Re:2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Mikaela Shiffrin sucks.

That is all.


Are her Olympics over?
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 21:33     Subject: 2022 Olympics
I am confused what happened - it didn’t look like she crashed…did she go out of bounds?
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2022 21:31     Subject: Re:2022 Olympics
Mikaela Shiffrin sucks.

That is all.