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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

These Olympics are the first in my lifetime that I remember hearing the athletes' political opinions.

And goddamit, can we not have ONE event where we all just non-cynically support our countries's teams and athletes in a silly competition and even - gasp - have a little national pride?!

[(Anonymous)]

OP must be very, very young.

[(Anonymous)]

That was my thought. Teenager or early twenties. And yes, Olympic athletes also had a lot of opinions in the early aughts, but I wouldn't necessarily expect a child to pick up on it.

[(Anonymous)]

Politics have always been a thing? tbh I only watched the sports themselves and not the preshow type thing (my country can be annoying with those things) so I'm sure I missed most of it. Aside from the Ukrainian the was wrongfully disqualified nothing political affected the competitions afaik?

[(Anonymous)]

I’m genuinely curious if this is first awareness because you’re young or if it’s due to censorship/framing in your country.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd guess age plays a part but also, between the fall of the Soviet Union (1989) and the trumpism era (2016-present), there was a time when we could actually have Olympics where no one mentioned politics. Betweeen Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union there were a lot of years where politics overwhelmed the Olympics, but I was born in 1975 so my actual perception of politics in sport begins basically around the fall of Soviet politics and the end of the Cold War. I watched the Olympics in 84 and 88 but I have no direct recollection of how tense the Soviet presence was.

But, born/cognizant of the Olympics between 92 and 2016? Yeah, things were pretty damn quiet and non-political for a long time, weren't they.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn quiet and non-political? How about in '96? 2008? 2012? 2014!?

[(Anonymous)]

give me some citations, I will gladly eat my hat if I'm not remembering A Thing That Happened In 1996. It's Saturday and I'm drunk. I will legit backtrack and apologize if I don't remember a thing from when I was 25 and didn't even watch tv.

[(Anonymous)]

Not ayrt and I only very vaguely remember it because I was 6 but there was a domestic terrorism bombing in 1996.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

OP says these are the first Olympics they have been aware of the politics of the athletes. Meaning they missed everything that happened two years ago, and two years before that, and two years before that…

Basically, your rose tinted glasses about the 90s and 2000s is irrelevant.

[(Anonymous)]

....ok take that up with OP and not me, ffs.

[(Anonymous)]

fs is full of Nazis as always. USSR suffered massivelly against European and Blatics genocide, and here you're, making them the same. Hi, slavs genocide denier.

Does the U.S. Men's hockey team post here now?

[(Anonymous)]

Because wow.

[tabaqui]

Perhaps you should read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute

And no. My country (US) is fucked up and grotesque and horrifying, and people being athletic on tv doesn't change that.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm Australian and when I was in high school, I got to meet the Australian athlete involved in that protest, Peter Norman. He was a very quiet and humble guy who remained involved in athletics for the rest of his life. Some years after his death I read about the statue: it shows the two African American athletes doing their salute, and Peter Norman asked to have no statue of himself so that other people could stand with them in his place. That was pretty amazing.

[tabaqui]

I remember reading about him, yes. Seems like a very cool person.

[philstar22]

This. We've become both absolutely horrifyingly awful and a complete and total joke. I feel no country pride whatsoever. Maybe we can turn things around. But right now there is nothing to feel pride about.

[(Anonymous)]

The first Olympics in my lifetime where I remember hearing the athlete's political opinions was in 1980. I was a little kid and couldn't understand why there was a boycott, and I more clearly remember the tit-for-tat boycott in 1984. But even before my lifetime there's 1968, there's 1936...

[(Anonymous)]

How about blocking Russia from Olympics but waving away USA and Israel war crimes? OP's brain is too smooth for politics. Zero awareness.

[philstar22]

I mean, I feel like it is a little hard to have any national pride as an American right now. Can't speak for other countries. But we've become a scary, horrible, awful joke.

[dani_phantasma]

Damn hard agree. My paternal family has been American back to the 1800s at least by my dad's research and ... honestly these days i almost feel like apologizing preemptively when i say I'm American. I know its stupid but thats just how embarrassed i feel about what our country is doing and how many Americans i see online act.

[(Anonymous)]

................. Seriously?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... no? The way the world is, it's kind of hard and I'm not surprised that, say, US athletes have a lot of cognitive dissonance around the concept of national pride, or that Ukrainian athletes might have a hard time setting aside everything going on in the real world to just smile and compete like everything's fine.

Sure, I wish we COULD have an olympics where none of this stuff came up, but like... I get why we don't, and I don't expect athletes to just turn off their opinions-- especially when some of us have lives that are 'political' whether we like it or not! Queer athletes, athletes whose countries are being invaded, I expect to be 'political' when they've been politicized, same as Tommie Smith and John Carlos in '68.