Actual China Olympics ski site
Posted on 02/07/2022 10:06:05 AM PST by Red Badger
"In this Olympic spirit of peace, I appeal to all political authorities across the world — observe your commitment to this Olympic truth. Give peace a chance," International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said.
Despite International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach's calls for peace at the opening of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the reality seems disjointed, including official delegation boycotts, all-time low viewership, and Russian President Vladimir Putin appearing to doze off during the Ukrainian team's entrance during the opening ceremony.
"In this Olympic spirit of peace, I appeal to all political authorities across the world — observe your commitment to this Olympic truth. Give peace a chance," Bach said, according to People Magazine, after the Olympic Truce was passed by the United Nations General Assembly in December.
The truce, which has been observed by the UN since 1993, according to Vox, calls for "the cessation of hostilities from seven days before until seven days after the Olympic Games."
However, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the U.K. announced diplomatic boycotts of the Beijing Olympics, citing human rights violations, in reference to the Chinese Communist Party's abuse of a million Uyghurs, who have been placed in internment camps.
The Olympics have received all-time low viewership on NBC, which found that there were "nearly 14 million TV-only viewers" for Friday's full-day opening ceremony coverage. This was 43% lower than the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which had 23.8 million viewers, TheBlaze reported. In the last 30 years, the lowest viewership was 21.6 million for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, according to The Wrap.
Only "8.7 million tuned in on NBC in primetime [to] see the pre-taped Mike Tirico and Savannah Guthrie-led coverage of the propaganda-heavy spectacle put on by Chinese President Xi Jinping and filmmaker Zhang Yimou," Deadline reported.
According to a Morning Consult poll of 2,000 American adults, 65% cited a lack of interest in the events, 57% said no interest in athletes, and 40% said it was because China was hosting.
The Twitter hashtag #GenocideGames also trended in recent days, referring to China's human rights violations, TheBlaze noted.
China also faced internal strife as Chinese social media users blasted 19-year-old U.S.-born figure skater Zhu Yi, who is competing for China, after she fell hard during her first combination attempt on Saturday as she slammed into a wall, Fox News reported. She later stumbled on a triple loop attempt, placing last with a 47.03 score.
The hashtag #ZhuYiFellOver had over 230 million views by Sunday afternoon before the Chinese social media site, Weibo, took it down. Zhu's performance brought China down from third place to fifth, narrowly making it to the finals.
In a possible pointed snub from a world leader, Putin appeared to doze off when the Ukrainian athletes entered the stadium during the opening ceremony. He sat alone with his eyes closed as the team made their entrance, according to Fox News. However, by the time the Russian Olympic Committee team entered the stadium, Putin was wide awake and stood to salute them, the New York Post reported.
Putin currently has more than 100,000 troops on Ukraine's border, as President Joe Biden has claimed that an invasion of Russia's neighbor appears imminent.
ioc president thomas bach is either naive, greedy or beholden to the ccp.
Imo, the last two possibilities are the most likely.
The thousands of screaming fans are amazing....
Oh wait...
Of course they know. I would be ashamed to admit I was supporting the worst country on the planet.
I watch but only for the hockey and biathlon. I’d very much like to see Team USA win any medal in biathlon. it’s the only winter sport that we’ve never medaled in.
Snowcross is cool too - but I don’t care much for the rest of it.
China’s Olympics flop? Viewership down, fallen skater booed, and Putin ‘dozes’, Athletes starved
The Olympics. Ratings are down. Being held in China. You could say the ratings are upside down.
so goes the rumor.
Unsolved Mysteries reruns on Roku.
I can’t believe how China has recruited Americans and maybe others of Chinese ancestry, to compete for China. The girl who fell down on the ice was an American who for some reason decided to compete for China. I never heard what was the inducement to do so? I think she was given Chinese citizenship? But is it worth it to be a Chinese citizen, to go ice skating for a few days and bring honor to China in sports? What else is involved here?
Before that time I was getting bored with the Olympics yet watched some of the sports, hockey being my favorite. Once the US pros were allowed to participate I stopped watching everything except the Women's Ice Hockey. I abandoned that at least three Olympics ago and forgot they were on until I saw headlines about the atrocious viewership numbers.
What else is involved here?
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Money.
Both her parents apparently are Chinese, whom. I guess one or both were either green carded or naturalized. The dad is supposed to be an AI researcher who went back to work for the CCP/PLA on AI. China’s AI research, like its Precision Medicine research, is the largest in the world - with far more money than anything the US has put into place by orders of magnitude.
Mainland Chinese are obsessed with money, so its reasonable to believe her dad lined the whole thing up with Party officials for money and for her propaganda value - which is huge as part of the CCP’s campaign to convince the world of the correctness of the CCP form of government and China’s superiority, especially of the Han people’s superiority over all other races.
The Big Air skiing competition seems to be taking place in an industrial area next to a nuclear power plant, or cooling towers that look like those at a nuclear reactor. Very odd, sad and funny.
Actual China Olympics ski site
Should have painted the cooling towers a nice red and gold................
They could have painted them
red and gold.................
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