2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing - In which we learn wtf a "diplomatic boycott" is

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The 2022 Winter Olympics will start in February, 2022. They'll take place in Beijing, the capitol of China.

In the wake of the CCP government's increasing restriction of civil liberties in Hong Kong and continued operation of re-education camps in the eastern and mostly Muslim area of Xinjiang, both the United States and Australia have declared "diplomatic boycotts" of the Games, which basically means that no government officials will be attending any of the ceremonies - in case you give a shit about that. These countries' athletes will still be participating in the Games.

The step is, so far, a far cry from the dramatics around the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, where 66 countries boycotted the Games entirely (including not sending their athletes) in protest of the USSR's soon-to-be-regretted invasion of Afghanistan starting in December '79. (Eastern Bloc countries boycotted the '84 Olympics in LA in response.)

It remains to be seen if any other countries will join the current boycotts, but given recent tensions I'd put $5 on India being the next. Vietnam and Japan are possible candidates too.

Oh, I'm sorry, did you just want to watch some figure skating or downhill slalom in peace? Nope, here's some fucking politics in your face.
 
What I wonder is if the athletes will join on the protesting, by intentionally throwing events. It would be the 2012 Olympic Badminton fiasco again, except that the athletes are tanking to make the games and China look bad.

And what is the Winter Games equivalent of Beach Volleyball and Track & Field, where female athletes wear clothing of minimal standards?
 
Boycott the games so that China can have a better chance of winning winter games. That will show those tropical people who's best!
 
All I care about is short track speed skating pile-ups, Mikaela Shiffrin, and hopefully no one getting launched into a pole in skeleton, luge, or bobsled.
 
Crunchy Oats said:
What absolute retard would go to China for anything?
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Basically, if you've ever criticized China online, have Chinese citizenship or are related to Chinese expatriates You should avoid ever going to China or Hong Kong, even for a stop between planes. The same holds true if your Country has recently pissed off China in any major way (Thinking of the two Michaels they held under BS drug- and espionage charges precisely as long as Canada was holding that Huawei Princess for extradition to the US)

With China, paranoia is ALWAYS your best friend.
 
The NHL will be announcing they will not be participating in the Beijing Olympics tomorrow if rumours are to be believed.

Because of covid surge apparently.
 
All it's gonna do is change the preliminary favorite from Canada to Russia on that front, especially if KHL allows their talent to be a part of this.
 
Rebel Wilson said:
The NHL will be announcing they will not be participating in the Beijing Olympics tomorrow if rumours are to be believed.

Because of covid surge apparently.
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Yeah, looks like that happened: https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/12/22/nhl-olympics-beijing-covid-coronavirus/ https://archive.md/wip/YR8X2

From what I understand, the concern is less about catching the coof in China and more about them wanting players to be available to play games rescheduled after cancellation earlier in the season. I'm kinda surprised they have the power to do this and what they'd do about it if a player just went and played anyway, but I'd understand if a player didn't want to risk their pro career to find out.

I presume the US and Canada will still field teams of non-NFL players, though if the article mentioned something about that, I missed it.
 
And another one gone, and another one gone… Japan not to send senior officials to Beijing Olympics (a)

This one's not a complete "diplomatic boycott" since one politician who helped spearhead the 2020 Tokyo games is cinfirmed to be going.

According to Wikipedia, the current list of countries doing some sort of diplomatic boycott are as follows:
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Canada
  • Belgium
  • Estonia
  • Great Britain
  • Japan
  • Kosovo
  • Lithuania
  • New Zealand
  • United States
 
They have begun! Opening ceremony and lighting the torch happening now. US coverage here. Non-US coverage: figure it out yourself lmao.

I'm already sick of ching chong language and moon runes. But I love me some Olympics.

/sp/ thread here. Entertaining "coverage" from anons.

All times are EST. Apparently there were some prelim events last night, oops nobody cared enough to notice.

Day 1: Feb. 4​

Opening ceremony started at 6am.
  • Women's snowboarding slopestyle qualifying - 9 p.m.
  • Women's hockey prelims, Canada vs. Finland - 11 p.m.

Day 2: Feb. 5​

  • Men's ski jumping normal hill qualification - 12:15 a.m.
  • Mixed doubles curling, USA vs. China - 1 a.m.
  • Women's speed skating, 3000m medal final - 3:30 a.m.
  • Women's ski jumping medal final - 4:45 a.m.
  • Speed skating - women's 500m heats, men's 1,000m heats - 6 a.m.
  • Mixed doubles curling - USA vs. Canada 7 a.m.
  • Speed skating - Mixed team relay final - 8 a.m.
  • Women's hockey prelims - USA vs. Russian Olympic Committee - 8 a.m.
  • Women's ski jumping, normal hill final - 1 p.m.

Day 3: Feb. 6​

  • Men's speed skating 5,000m final - 3:30 a.m.
  • Men's ski jumping, normal hill final - 5 a.m.
  • Women's moguls skiing medal final - 6:30 a.m.
  • Mixed doubles curling, USA vs. Switzerland round robin - 7 a.m.
  • Women's hockey prelims, USA vs. Switzerland - 8 a.m.
  • Mixed doubles curling, USA vs. Great Britain - 8 p.m.
  • Women's skiing, giant slalom run 1 - 9 p.m.
  • Women's hockey, Canada vs. Russian Olympic Committee - 11 p.m.

Day 4: Feb. 7​

  • Women's speed skating, 1,500m final - 3:30 a.m.
  • Women's biathalon, individual 15km final - 4 a.m.
  • Speed skating - women's 500m final, men's 1,000m final - 6:30 a.m.
  • Mixed doubles curling semifinals - 7 a.m.
  • Women's skiing big air final - 9 p.m.
  • Men's skiing Super-G final - 10 p.m.
  • Women's hockey prelims, USA vs. Canada 10:45 p.m.

Day 5: Feb. 8​

  • Mixed doubles curling bronze medal match - 1 a.m.
  • Men's biathalon individual 20km final - 3:30 a.m.
  • Men's speed skating 1,500m final - 5:30 a.m.
  • Curling mixed doubles gold medal match - 7 a.m.
  • Women's luge singles final - 8:35 a.m.
  • Men's skiing, big air final - 10 p.m.

Day 6: Feb. 9​

  • Women's snowboard cross final - 1:30 a.m.
  • Men's 1,500m speedskating final - 6 a.m.
  • Men's curling round robin, USA vs. Russian Olympic Committee - 7 a.m.
  • Luge doubles all runs, final - 7:20 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin - USA vs. Russian Olympic Committee - 8 p.m.
  • Women's snowboarding halfpipe final - 8:30 p.m.

Day 7: Feb. 10​

  • Men's snowboard cross final - 1 a.m.
  • Men's curling round robin, USA vs. Sweden - 1 a.m.
  • Men's skiing combined slalom final - 1:15 a.m.
  • Freestyle skiing mixed team aerials final - 6 a.m.
  • Women's speed skating 5,000m final - 7 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. Denmark - 7:00 a.m.
  • Men's hockey prelims, USA vs. China - 8 a.m.
  • Men's curling round robin, USA vs. Great Britain - 8 p.m.
  • Men's snowboarding halfpipe final - 8:30 p.m.
  • Women's hockey quarterfinal 2 - 11 p.m.

Day 8: Feb. 11​

  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. China 1 a.m.
  • Men's cross country skiing 15km final - 2 a.m.
  • Men's speedskating 10,000m final - 3 a.m.
  • Women's speedskating 1,000m final - 7:30 a.m.
  • Women's hockey quarterfinal - 8 a.m.
  • Men's skeleton final - 8:55 a.m.
  • Snowboarding cross mixed team final - 9 p.m.
  • Men's hockey prelims, USA vs. Canada - 11 p.m.

Day 9: Feb. 12​

  • Men's curling round robin, USA vs. Norway - 1 a.m.
  • Women's cross country skiing 4x5km relay final - 2:30 a.m.
  • Women's hockey quarterfinal - 3:40 a.m.
  • Men's speed skating, 500m final - 3:50 a.m.
  • Men's biathalon 10km sprint - 4 a.m.
  • Men's ski jumping, large hill final - 5 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. Great Britain - 7 a.m.
  • Women's skeleton heats 3 and 4, final - 7:20 am
  • Men's curling round robin, USA vs. Canada - 8:05 p.m.

Day 10: Feb. 13​

  • Men's skiing giant slalom run 2, final - 12:45 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. Sweden - 1 a.m.
  • Men's cross country skiing 4x10km relay - 2 a.m.
  • Men's hockey prelims, USA vs. Germany - 8:00 a.m.
  • Women's speed skating 500m final - 8:50 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. South Korea - 8:05 p.m.
  • Women's bobsled heats 3 and 4, final - 8:30 p.m.
  • Women's skiing slopestyle final - 8:30 p.m.
  • Women's hockey semifinal 1 - 11 p.m.

Day 11: Feb. 14​

  • Men's team ski jumping, large hill - 5:10 a.m.
  • Women's skiing, aerials final - 6 a.m.
  • Men's bobsled two man, heats 1 and 2 - 7 a.m.
  • Women's hockey semifinal 2 - 8 a.m.
  • Men's curling round robin, USA vs. Switzerland - 8 p.m.
  • Men's skiing slopestyle final - 8:30 p.m.
  • Women's snowboarding big air final - 8:30 p.m.
  • Women's skiing downhill final - 10 p.m.
  • Men's hockey quarterfinal playoff - 11 p.m.

Day 12: Feb. 15​

  • Men's snowboarding big air final - 12 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. Switzerland - 1 a.m.
  • Men's hockey quarterfinal playoff - 3:40 a.m.
  • Women's figure skating short program - 5 a.m.
  • Men's curling round robin, USA vs. Italy - 7 a.m.
  • Men's bobsled two man heats 3 and 4, final - 7:15
  • Men's hockey quarterfinal playoff - 8 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. Canada - 8 p.m.
  • Men's hockey quarterfinal - 11 p.m.

Day 13: Feb. 16​

  • Men's skiing, slalom run 2, final - 12:45 a.m.
  • Men's hockey quarterfinal - 1 a.m.
  • Women's biathalon 4x6km relay - 2:45 a.m.
  • Men's hockey quarterfinal - 3:40 a.m.
  • Women's hockey bronze medal game - 6:30 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. Japan - 7 a.m.
  • Women's speedskating, 1500m final - 8 a.m.
  • Men's hockey quarterfinal - 8:30 a.m.
  • Women's curling round robin, USA vs. Denmark - 8 p.m.
  • Women's hockey gold medal game - 11 p.m.

Day 14: Feb. 17​

  • Women's skiing combined slalom, final - 1 a.m.
  • Women's ski cross, final - 1 a.m.
  • Women's speedskating 3000m final, 3:30 a.m.
  • Women's figure skating, free skating final - 5 a.m.
  • Men's curling semifinal 1 - 7 a.m.
  • Men's curling semifinal 2 - 8 p.m.
  • Women's skiing halfpipe final - 8:30 p.m.
  • Men's hockey semifinal 1 - 11 p.m.

Day 15: Feb. 18​

  • Men's ski cross final - 1 a.m.
  • Men's curling bronze medal game - 1 a.m.
  • Men's speedskating final - 3:30 a.m.
  • Men's biathalon 15km mass start final - 4 a.m.
  • Women's curling semifinal - 7 a.m.
  • Men's hockey semifinal 2 - 8:10 a.m.
  • Men's skiing halfpipe final - 8:30 p.m.

Day 16: Feb. 19​

  • Men's curling gold medal game - 1 a.m.
  • Men's and women's speedskating mass start - 2 a.m.
  • Pairs figure skating free skate final - 6 a.m.
  • Women's curling bronze medal game - 8 a.m.
  • Men's hockey bronze medal game - 8 a.m.
  • Women's curling gold medal game - 8 p.m.
  • Men's hockey gold medal game - 11 p.m.

Day 17: Feb. 20​

  • 2022 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony - 7 p.m.
 
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Beijing Olympics 2022: Russian Olympic Committee athletes ignore rule, display Russian flag on jackets (a)

Russia is officially banned from the Olympics since 2017 due to a doping scandal, so Russian athletes participate under the "Russian Olympic Committee" (ROC) and aren't allowed to fly the Russian flag or have its national anthem played at medal ceremonies - the same sort of half-assed political compromise that has led to Taiwan being represented as "Chinese Taipei." This year's team has decided to tempt fate, however. Let's see if the IOC has the balls to do anything about it; it's kind of a stupid decision in the first place but if they back down or give some sort of weak-wristed penalty they'll look like total chumps.
 
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