hugopal rhouses Moving to a totalitarian communist country with hardcore censorship laws (China) and moving to a religious fundamentalist country with archaic blasphemy laws (Pakistan), by choice, seems to be quite a peculiar decision to make. I understood the point you were trying to make with that earlier anecdote, but Gu hasn’t actually moved to China - she has Chinese citizenship and represents China at the Olympics, but still very much lives in the US.
hugopal rhouses Sure. Wonder what the implications are on her earnings? Maybe she was trying to maximise total earnings through partly appealing to audiences in both countries and thus increasing her advertising opportunities?
Smallman1 Toboggan with tobogganing. Wahey! Followed by the slalom, am sure it will be all downhill from there. THAT’S WHY THEY CALL ME OLB.
Mad_Cyril hugopal Given that she personally met Xi Jinping prior to obtaining Chinese citizenship at 15, I wonder if Xi hasn’t secretly granted her an exemption from the Chinese anti dual citizenship law due to her being a sports star. Or maybe she blew him off?
hugopal Amps I’m in! I suppose when you live on Merseyside that North Korea is still a fairly attractive alternative.
bosstrabs Smallman1 Rhouses is most looking forward to the curling. And the bobsleigh, because it sounds like ‘to bog again’. And it’s sort of a frozen version of the log flume.
-si- I wrote a letter in to jim’ll fix it to ask if the lovely Jim could fix it for me and 3 of my primary school buddies to hurtle down a bobsleigh track at 70 miles an hour on our own. Not sure why my letter wasn’t selected. Or what could have went wrong. Feel like I missed out. On both the bobsleigh experience and Jim’s finger in my arse.
LT42 I’m assuming the Chinese will miraculously have top 3 finishes in all events this year. I’ll have my eyes on the Downhill as per.
mono-stereo Why is Steve Cram suddenly the voice of curling? What the fuck has Cram got on his CV that makes him suitable for the job?
-si- mono-stereo Fatima whitbread’s running commentary of yesterday’s cross country skiing was mesmerising, to be fair to him…
Along_the_Wire The British commentary teams around snowboarding appear to know next to nothing about what they’re commentating. Just heard a commentator make a right old mess of trying to explain the difference between regular and and goofy when he meant switch. Stupid cunt.
ScottBailey Along_the_Wire it’s that time again on the sporting calendar when we’re subjected to a British commentator absolutely butchering the (ice) hockey too. Only comparable to Sky’s coverage of the Superbowl, or when our friends across the pond try their best to talk about the Prem’. It’s just never going to be good.
