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Old 08-02-2012, 12:17 AM
 
Location: Near Manito
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DQ'ed Chinese badminton player to retire - Badminton News | NBC Olympics

I have to laugh when I read all the posts about how hubristic and unprincipled America is in world affairs.

Murdering monks and burning the Potala, slaughtering their own people at Tianenmen square, censoring the internet, and throwing anyone in jail who so much as looks askance at the government. Wait till the big red dragon is boss. Even Noam Chomsky will want Uncle Sam back.
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Old 08-02-2012, 12:23 AM
 
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DQ'ed Chinese badminton player to retire - Badminton News | NBC Olympics

I have to laugh when I read all the posts about how hubristic and unprincipled America is in world affairs.

Murdering monks and burning the Potala, slaughtering their own people at Tianenmen square, censoring the internet, and throwing anyone in jail who so much as looks askance at the government. Wait till the big red dragon is boss. Even Noam Chomsky will want Uncle Sam back.
Someone in Japan slamming the Chinese, now that's a first.


No dogs and Chinese allowed. Seriously. - YouTube
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Old 08-02-2012, 12:37 AM
 
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Yeah, there's freedom of speech everywhere.

Except maybe Berkeley.


Tiananmen Square Massacre - YouTube
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Old 08-02-2012, 12:45 AM
 
Location: Louisiana
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This is curious.
Ye Shiwen's world record Olympic swim 'disturbing', says top US coach

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Ye stunned world swimming on Saturday by winning gold in the 400m individual medley in a world-record time. It was her final 100m of freestyle, in which she recorded a split time of 58.68sec, that aroused Leonard's suspicion. Over the last 50m she was quicker than the American Ryan Lochte, who won the men's 400m individual medley in the second-fastest time in history.
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Old 08-02-2012, 01:19 AM
 
Location: Near Manito
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Wow. East Germany redux.

Doping in East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropol...rs-186x300.jpg
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Old 08-02-2012, 04:14 AM
 
Location: Near Manito
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And now this.

Shameful.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0..._hp_ref=sports

London Olympics 2012: Badminton cheating by the Chinese is nothing new, Martin Samuel | Mail Online
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Old 08-02-2012, 09:24 AM
 
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Those Badminton players have been disqualified.
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Old 08-02-2012, 09:35 AM
 
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She's a phenomenal athlete. By the way, FINA (the swimming governing body) takes blood from all Olympic medalists immediately after their swim and drug tests it. They also retain those samples for 8 years and will re-test them whenever new drug tests are developed.
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Old 08-02-2012, 09:55 AM
 
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The Chinese have always cheated at sports and especially the Olympics. At the Beijing Olympics in 2008 it was proven that some of the female gymnasts were underage which screwed the USA gymnasts out of a team gold medal.
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Old 08-02-2012, 09:57 AM
 
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cheating and doping have become rampant in sports..all types of sports.
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