Jul 30, 2021, 16:44
Chinese Olympic champions, celebrities and netizens are questioning the fairness of judges at the Tokyo Olympic Games after Chinese gymnast Xiao Ruoteng lost out to Japan's Daiki Hashimoto on Wednesday night during the men's gymnastics all-around, saying that the panel showed favoritism toward host Japan by giving the gold to the latter athlete, who they claim made several mistakes during the competition while the former made none.
On Wednesday night, Xiao lost the gold to 19-year-old winner Hashimoto by falling 0.4 of a point short of the latter's 88.465. Russian Nikita Nagornyy took the bronze.
"Our country doesn't need a gold medal to prove China's rise, but our athletes do," said Yang Wei, the all-around champion at the 2008 Beijing Games on Sina Weibo after Xiao lost the competition.
"Still we are proud of Xiao Ruoteng, who showed his incredible strength and power!"
"Congratulations to Team China for winning the all-around silver medal," Li Xiaopeng, another Beijing Olympics gymnastics champion, posted on Sina Weibo, adding that he had "seen through" the game.
The low score given to Xiao sparked a wave of dissatisfaction among Chinese netizens and even celebrities, such as pop star Huang Zitao, who said they felt anger over the judges' "deliberate blindness" toward the flaws in Hashimoto's performance and the low score given to Xiao, who they felt clearly outperformed the Japanese competition. According to reports, the final scores even elicited boos from the media present within the Ariake arena.
Xiao congratulated both Hashimoto and Nagelny after the game, Ye Zhenann, deputy leader of Chinese Gymnastics Team, told the People's Daily on Wednesday night.
When talking about the 0.4 gap between the two, Ye said that "Xiao Ruoteng was deducted 0.3 points as he did not stand at attention to judges to indicate his movement had finished."
"I don't feel sorry for losing the game, but this Olympics ruined the dream of our athletes, it killed all of their efforts," one netizen said in a post that received numerous likes.
Global Times
"invited by the quite progressive UN-recognized Kabul government at the time" Those Russian tanks will certainly help to pave your roads, and Russian soldiers will have the populace filling up hospitals in no time. Invite them all in to your own neck of the woods.
It's disgusting that an event designed to foster World peace has been hijacked by species of illegal immigrant who are ashamed of their inferiority and who violate the Olympic charter by politicising it.
Remember that boycott?
Unlike Think Tank Row in DC, Chinese counterparts seem to have done their homework. They understood that the USSR did not invade Afghanistan in 1979 to impose “popular democracy” – the jargon then – but was in fact invited by the quite progressive UN-recognized Kabul government at the time, which essentially wanted roads, electricity, medical care, telecommunications and education.
- A Saigon Moment in the Hindu Kush
With WIkipedia (last I looked) listing the Great Satan as having the highest number of cheats caught taking banned substances, it is, instead, the russian team which has been (ostensibly) banned, based on an absurd accusation:
In 2016 Grigory Rodchenkov, a whistleblowing chemist, who had been the director of the country’s anti-doping lab, revealed how he and his team developed a highly effective cocktail of steroids, known as the Duchess, dissolved in Chivas Regal whisky.
- Why are Russian athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics despite the country’s ban?
Russian athletes then pointed out the absurdity of athletes taking alcohol before an event! All part of the constant tsunami of horse-manure that is anglo/jew propaganda.
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