Posted on 08/09/2016 9:14:06 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Olympic Officials Apologize For Using Knock-Off Chinese Flags In Medal Ceremony
Patrick Redford
Yesterday 11:10pm
After Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics over Du Li and Yi Siling of China, Olympic officials raised incorrect Chinese flags to the rafter during the medal ceremony. See those flags up there? Notice any differences between them and the real Chinese flag below?
The small stars on the flags that featured in the Olympics are all at the same angle, whereas the stars on the official flag are all tilted so that they point back towards the center of the larger star. Chinese Central Television first reported on it, via the Wall Street Journal:
“Some attentive web users have discovered that the five-star red flag used at this Olympics appear problematic,” state broadcaster China Central Television said on its official Weibo microblog. “The national flag is the symbol of a nation! No problems are permissible!”
Olympic officials apologized for the mixup, while noting that Chinese Olympic officials did approve the flags:
“We do understand that there is a problem with the flag,” said Mario Andrada, Rio 2016 Olympic Games executive communications director, on Monday. “It’s very small. You have to be very familiar with the Chinese flag to understand that. However, we need to correct it.”
Ironically, the flags themselves were made in China.
I see a few dead chicom officials back in Beijing and the flag manufacturing plant in Shanghai.
Chinese upset over cheap knockoffs? Really?
Such delicious irony.
What do you want to bet that the flags in question were Made in China?
I had to make sure the US Flag had 13 stripes and 50 stars, you never know these days.
Don’t know about Shanghai. Probably some provincial city. Shanghai would be like manufacturing light bulbs in Silicon Valley.
So, you go to a Chinese factory for a Chinese flag and you get a cheap and inaccurate knockoff. I just can't blame the IOC for this one...
Hah Hah!
Who knew Chinese products were inferior and defective?
Well..., nobody in Washington, D. C., that’s for sure.
The public does, because they’re the ones who have to replace what broke anywhere from a day to two years after they bought it.
I was wondering why the IOC just doesn’t keep flags in a vault to be reused between Olympics. They don’t really wear out, especially indoors.
Then I realized its the IOC and practicality takes a back seat to profit.
And no one complains about taiwan not allowed to use their flag.
Hillary supporters also noticed that the US flag is missing a hammer and sickle. They must make sure Hillary is elected so that can be fixed for the next olympics.
Or an Islamic Crescent.
They stole my joke right out from under me.
“Ironically, the flags themselves were made in China.”
Another one for my rule of thumb that 99% of the time a “journalist” uses “ironically”, they mean “coincidentally”.
The “irony” invariably shows a direct relationship, the best (that is to say, worst) example I’ve seen suggesting how “ironic” it was that somebody crashed her car while she was talking for the very first time on the cell phone she had just bought.
Oh, yeah, the little problem will be corrected. Every worker in the building will turn up missing including the janitor.
The one at the White House has 58 stars.
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