You know how you can tell things are so bad in Russia right now? They are being humiliated at the Olympics...there used to be a time when a unified Soviet Union came off as the supreme communist power in the world.
China proved the past 12 days who is in the driver’s seat...Russia is a big mess.
Tally up the medals of the former soviet states and vassal states and it is not so unimpressive. But of course the Russians no longer get bragging rights.
Boy did you nail it. Countries like France were killing them in the total medal count and their gymnastics teams didn’t get a single medal. To make matters worse, a couple times the russians were in contention for a bronze medal, but the chinese with inferior performances got higher scores from the biased judging and pushed them out.
Talk about rubbing their faces in it. Soviet Union v2.0 losing to the french in total medals. No wonder Putin started a war.