Chinese officials interrupt live Olympic TV broadcast, push reporter out of frame

[Gunny]

Quite a few Olympics stories China is on the wrong side of. Probably going to stick most in this thread rather than create a new thread for each one. The Chinese government is acting way more heavy=handed than even I thought they would.

One story I cannot find now that was on my cell is the Beijing Winter Olympics are so far killing NBC. Worst viewership in years. Good :halo9:

From what I have gathered to this point, it's Pingpong's version of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-officials-interrupt-live-olympic-231619556.html

[Gunny]

A day after the International Olympic Committee tried to claim these Games should be free of politics (https://sports.yahoo.com/as-peng-shuai-human-rights-issues-hang-over-olympics-ioc-echoes-chinas-party-line-165042093.html), the Chinese Communist Party staged an Opening Ceremony (https://sports.yahoo.com/china-chooses-athlete-with-uyghur-heritage-to-help-light-cauldron-144927562.html) draped in dual-track political messaging for audiences both inside China and out that was as loud and clear as the fireworks that lit up the Beijing sky.
It was a sign of both Chinese strength in its ability to use the Olympics to spread its narrative and its hidden terror at the truth actually seeping out.
It ended with an affront to the sensibilities and a middle finger to much of the world, whose prominent governments — including the United States, India, Great Britain, Australia and Canada — refused to send diplomats (https://sports.yahoo.com/united-states-to-announce-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics-over-china-human-rights-abuses-021138401.html) to grant this absurdity any measure of legitimacy.
The Olympic cauldron was lit — a symbolic moment of prominence — on Friday in Beijing by two Chinese athletes, including Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a cross country skier, who, according to the state-run media, has Uyghur heritage.
That choice, a female Uyghur, was a direct shot at outside groups and governments who have condemned China for its treatment against Muslim ethic minorities who mostly reside in the far northwest part of the country.
Numerous governments, including the United States, and numerous human rights organizations — Amnesty International and United Nations experts, among them — have concluded China is waging genocide against the Uyghurs after some members of the ethnic group began demanding a measure of cultural independence in 2014.
China has denied the allegation and its response was, perhaps, even more direct than imaginable. In a signature moment of the Olympics, with massive audiences both inside the country and around the globe, it sent a Uyghur woman to essentially declare all is good and what you’ve heard isn’t true.
Well, that’s the Chinese story, at least.
cont @ link: https://sports.yahoo.com/the-2022-olympic-opening-ceremony-revealed-this-truth-china-has-a-lot-to-hide-175017821.html

[Kathianne]

Quite a few Olympics stories China is on the wrong side of. Probably going to stick most in this thread rather than create a new thread for each one. The Chinese government is acting way more heavy=handed than even I thought they would.

One story I cannot find now that was on my cell is the Beijing Winter Olympics are so far killing NBC. Worst viewership in years. Good :halo9:

From what I have gathered to this point, it's Pingpong's version of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-officials-interrupt-live-olympic-231619556.html

Obviously even I was not around in 1936, but knew these Beijing Olympics would be a #metoo event, every bit like Afghanistan withdrawal was a predictable redeux of Vietnam.

Maybe Biden &Co are trying to give memorable history lessons in real-time?

[Gunny]

Obviously even I was not around in 1936, but knew these Beijing Olympics would be a #metoo event, every bit like Afghanistan withdrawal was a predictable redeux of Vietnam.

Maybe Biden &Co are trying to give memorable history lessons in real-time?I think I expected China to try and hide everything and not act like storm troopers at the competition.

I'm seriously concerned for the athletes. Most of them at this level are disinterested in politics and want to compete in the sport they are trained for. That and $3. will get them a cup of coffee at 7-11 if Pingpong decides to pull some commie crap on them.

I wouldn't have gone.

[Kathianne]

I think I expected China to try and hide everything and not act like storm troopers at the competition.

I'm seriously concerned for the athletes. Most of them at this level are disinterested in politics and want to compete in the sport they are trained for. That and $3. will get them a cup of coffee at 7-11 if Pingpong decides to pull some commie crap on them.

I wouldn't have gone.

China is well into 2 years of NOT hiding anything. Not naked thirst for "lost territories." Not use of force against protesters in Hong Kong, absolute brutality allowed and encouraged. Not threats couched in diplomacy.

All that's left is a statement of intent to rule Pacific in short run, more to come later. Unlike Germany, China can win a war of attrition, not that it would happen that way again.

[Gunny]

Finland’s men’s ice hockey (https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/nhl) coach has accused China (https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/china) of not respecting a player’s human rights at the Winter Olympics (https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/olympics) as forward ​​Marko Anttila remains in isolation 18 days after testing positive for COVID-19 (https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus).

Jukka Jalonen took aim at the conditions the 6-foot-8, 230-pound Finnish player is under while in isolation, which he said has taken a toll on Anttila, both physically and mentally.

"He's a professional athlete and he would like to participate in team practices and games in the near future," Jalonen told media during a zoom call, via CBC News (https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/hockey/valtonen-china-anttila-1.6341466). "He's not getting great food and he's a very big guy."
He continued: "Because he doesn't know what's going on and what will happen with him, it's like uncertainties, so it's a bad thing also mentally."
Team doctor Maarit Valtonen explained that Anttila tested negative several times prior to his arrival in Beijing. He remains in isolation after testing positive for the virus 18 days ago.
"From a medical perspective we know that a person like this is no longer infectious, no danger to the other team," Valtonen explained. "These isolation decisions are not based on medicine or science, it's more cultural and political decisions."


As part of China’s efforts to prevent the virus from spreading during the Games, everyone in the Olympic bubble has to take daily PCR tests. Those who are confirmed to be positive go to an isolation facility until they’re cleared for discharge, either through tests showing they’re negative or a review by a panel of medical experts.
"We know that he's fully healthy and ready to go and that's why we think that China, for some reason, they won't respect his human rights and that's not a great situation," Jalonen said.


A Beijing Games spokesperson told Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/ice-hockey-china-ignoring-finnish-players-human-rights-says-coach-2022-02-06/) that organizers are "in a process of addressing these problems."
Isolation conditions have been a point of controversy early on in these Olympic Games.


The German delegation called the situation "unreasonable" and said rooms should be bigger and cleaner after Eric Frenzel, a three-time gold medalist in Nordic combined, tested positive. Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova also said she couldn’t stomach most of the food she was given and survived mainly on a few pieces of pasta.
"These are exactly the kind of things we have to address. It’s a duty. It’s a responsibility," Christophe Dubi, the International Olympic Committee’s executive director for the Games, said in response to the complaints. "We have to make sure that the expectations are met."

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/finlands-ice-hockey-china-human-rights-player-covid-isolation

[Gunny]

A 2fer: Hurts NBC and PRC.

Said it before, but isn't amazing they can count viewers from just last night for sports but can't count votes for President for weeks?


NBC’s broadcast for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/olympics) saw a historic low in viewership, with just 16 million total viewers tuning in on Friday, down 43% from the previous Games.
The number, from across NBC’s multiple streaming platforms and networks, was down a significant number compared to the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang where the broadcast reached 28.3 million total viewers, according to The Wrap. (https://www.thewrap.com/beijing-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-ratings-all-time-low/)
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