• cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    25·
    2 months ago

    The medal counts are inflated in favor of certain countries anyway because some disciplines like swimming have dozens of different medals that you can get, and if you have people that are really good at swimming you can already count on double digit medal counts just from that. Also it helps them a lot that they excluded Russia who have some of the best athletes in the world.

    The Olympics has always been a Western centric thing and now it’s becoming even more so. Europe is wildly over-represented compared to the global south. So what’s even the point of watching what’s largely just a Euro-American circlejerk plus a couple of token other countries? It’s a miracle that they haven’t kicked China out yet so it can just be the Anglo-Europeans plus their little poodles Japan and South Korea.

    • WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      CPTPP

      I think that’s the point. They’ve come up with a bizarre way of classifying Pacific rim countries that excludes China, and lumped the EU together in order to portray China as being #3 instead of #1.

      • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        I get that but using CPTPP is kinda reaching. I didn’t know what it was until I just searched it right now. I am sure 80% of the people seeing this will be equally confused.

      • Soviet Pigeon@lemmygrad.ml
        6·
        2 months ago

        But why EU? I was used that every European country was ranked individually. Is this new, have I miss something or am I plain wrong?

    • CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      The picture is pretty low res but it looks like the flags line up with the Comprehensive Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.

      The countries are not really that culturally tied or part of a real geopolitical block.

      The only reason they have done this I think is to make the EU grouping seem less obviously cope by having another grouping on the board.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    its been such a shit show lol, but china’s swimming team drip won the propaganda battle imo

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      Because Hong Kong maintains its own separate Olympic team which is grandfathered in, and also explicitly allowed by the PRC stipulations they handled the reintegration of Hong Kong.

      They are two separate teams.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      2·
      2 months ago

      lol right, they split an actual country up and then merged a bunch of countries into EU into one, might as well just put NATO on the scoreboard at this point

      • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        Hong Kong’s team and China’s team are two separate and distinct entities at the Olympics. China specifically outlined that they were alright with that back in 1997.

          • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
            1·
            1 month ago

            No? The Olympics treat them as separate entities because at the Olympics they are separate entities. This is a tableau of medal counts, and Hong Kong’s team operates independently of China’s as an independent entity.

              • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
                1·
                1 month ago

                Hong Kong has maintained their own independent Olympic team since 1952. During the handover of the territory in 1997, China outlined in the treaty that incorporated Hong Kong and later the Hong Kong constitution in Article 151, Chapter 7 of the Basic Law,

                May, on its own, maintain and develop relations and conclude and implement agreements with foreign states and regions and relevant international organizations in the appropriate fields, including the economic, trade, financial and monetary, shipping, communications, tourism, cultural and sports fields"

                I really don’t get what’s so hard to understand here. At the Olympics, they are two separate entities with two separate Olympic committees.