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krow

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  1. what the hell are they going to do with $130 million? every time i see a stadium refresh the price is always closer to a billion, and i imagine they need aquatics and general interest indoor event space as well.
  2. bach falls on his sword for these "neutral athletes" that both 1) dope and 2) support putin openly, then has the nerve to tell the press about how shocked and betrayed he feels...but that he's happy to welcome even more neutral athletes for paris. you'd have to be one hell of a masochist to keep playing this game. https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2024-03-06/israels-olympic-status-not-in-question-says-ioc-president-bach-amid-frustration-with-russia
  3. does anyone know what an athlete has to do to condemn the war in ukraine? like, how is the IOC judging sincerity, and how forceful does the condemnation have to be?
  4. uh-oh your grandparents didn't spend an extended period of time in argentina by any chance did they
  5. Ukraine’s Dead Athletes Haunt 2024 Olympics Russian and Belarusian athletes will be in Paris for this year’s summer games after the International Olympic Committee ruled they could compete as “neutrals”. Many of their Ukrainian opponents are dead.
  6. just reposting my favorite article here, for no reason at all. we love a neutral athlete! the IOC is so smart i hope i'm as smart as them some day. oh well! ALMOST HALF of Russia’s 71 medals at the Tokyo Olympics won by soldiers & police
  7. that is so fucked because do they understand the concept of a team? like, it was my understanding that if one soccer/football player tests positive, the whole team loses the medal, because they're playing as .... a team. i don't care if they get individual scores, they literally add them together. i bet the IOC loves this feckless half decision btw.
  8. idc if it makes no sense, they should do it in paris and make it a media spectacle.
  9. the problem with this forum these days is that all conversations, even fun silly ones like this, get derailed and become totally stupid once AF gets involved. just such a pointless waste, i can't even be bothered anymore. i'm off to go launder money for the next six months, see you for paris OC possibly.
  10. no that's not a conspiracy theory. it's more the simplest and most obvious answer to the otherwise puzzling question of why the IOC would go to the trouble of creating an esports tournament. a conspiracy theory would be to suggest that you are a creation of the IOC's damage control crisis PR firm who pays some 23 year old social media manager to assume the "australian fan" identity and flood this forum with nonsensical pro-IOC propaganda, while trolling us badly with the intention of making this forum so uninviting and unpleasant people stop posting here. why? because the combination of anti-IOC negativity + knowledgable posters who are extremely informed about venues and bidding was hurting IOC feelings, and giving journalists damaging story ideas and research tips, so they resolved to make the forum obsolete itself. do you see the difference? of course you do, because you are a highly intelligent 23-year-old university educated misinformation specialist with a degree in internet psychology who only pretends to be clueless and slow. we know.
  11. they couldn't care less about the esports athletes or the competitor pool. i sincerely doubt bach has given four seconds of thought as to who exactly will be competing in this tournament. their heart is simply not in it, but then you read lines like this from a recent gamesbids story and it all makes sense. how much do you want to bet all the usual IOC suspects will be in riyadh sucking face with saudi royals and begging for free shopping sprees at gucci. truly we are living in the most cursed timeline.
  12. this is exactly why i said these decisions baffle me. although i do understand his moral panic reasoning - he thinks explicit violence will taint the olympic brand, despite the brand featuring shooting sports, modern pentathlon (designed to test soldier training skills)/biathlon, martial arts 1v1 combat, and endless doping scandals. back in june, rob roused himself to write up this decent explainer of why this venture is destined to fail, though as usual it's not cynical enough. the most obvious explanation of why the IOC is bothering with any of this in the first place is -- surprise! — money. they see an esports bubble flush with cash flowing everywhere but their pockets and they don't mind trading a little olympic prestige to get it. but as always, they want to do it THEIR way, which is completely misguided and pointless. no matter. i literally don't even know what the grift is but, c'mon, you KNOW there's a grift. let's brainstorm a moment for kicks. new slush fund er exploratory commission funding huge consultancy fees to friends who know less about esports than they do five star travel to japan etc. (coca cola products at the imperial palace, please!) new jobs for petty aristocrats, nepo babies and failsons a shot at getting leagues and game developers greasing their palms for favorable treatment massive event planning/technology contracts to friends NBC money (???) the sad part is, with the exception of NBC, i'm probably not even thinking big enough, though i do think i'm on the right track. this is 99.9999% a cash grab and possibly a money laundering scheme. you literally can't be too cynical with these people. however bad you think it is, i guarantee it's a thousand times worse.
  13. istg rols i see you contemplating about to quote that last AF response and repeat yourself for the ten thousandth time and i'm here to tell you don't do it. go have a fag or whatever it is you people do.
  14. well GB has had lots of obsessive trolls in the past and none of them really diminished the board. i hate to say it, but it's kind of unfair to say this one is the nail in the coffin. it's just much emptier here so his trolling sticks out more. as has been said a few times, it's the IOC's antipathy toward dramatic bid cycles and the conglomeratization of social media that's chipped away at activity for years. AF is just the annoying ass icing on the cake, and since herr fencing 1976, mark zuckerberg, and jack dorsey aren't here, he gets a lot of the blame. he is a prat though. no argument there.
  15. it's like interacting with chatGPT.
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