Honestly surprised this is allowed. Another argument for cash if global companies can dictate this kind of stuff.
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After seeing the French booing and throwing bottles at Tom Pidcock in today’s cycling, it would give me great pleasure to see GB beat France in the medal table.
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And if we don’t, we can always set up a Thursday night 8pm national ‘Booo’ 10-minute session aimed South. Each Thursday for a year.
(Bit like the ol’ NHS clapping thing during lockdown)
That’ll show 'em. And it’ll help the nation’s mental well-being via offloading too.
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Disliking the French (in an unserious manner) is very much part of our culture.
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Hmm - I know quite a lot of people who genuinely dislike the French (mosty having either never met a French person, or having met Parisian waiters having made no effort to even learn “bonjour”, “s’il vous plaît” or “merci”).
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Really? I don’t. British and French are far more similar than either likes to admit. It’s a good rivalry.
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I’ve just seen a story about the booing and bottle throwing. Completely out of order, whoever was doing it.
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I agree. I have French friends and we take the mickey out of each other good-naturedly.
Unfortunately there are an awful lot of xenophobic brits.
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There are a heck of a lot of xenophobic French people!
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To be fair, as far as I’m aware, US newspapers have always ordered it like this.
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Surely you have to reward winning, not consistent nearly-rans.
Ask an athlete, which would they prefer, 10 bronze/ silver or 1 gold.
I’d take 1 gold and I think a lot would too!
Same here. You only have to see the disappointed on the athletes face when they narrowly miss gold.
At least the Second Amendment that the all the MAGA crowd are so proud of is boosting their medal count
So bearing in mind this is just a bit of fun, assigning points to Gold/Silver/Bronze a la football style, the top 20 would be slightly different:
Versus the official:
JUST FOR FUN.
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Much fairer method. R-
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Also not sure if Olympics is fair. They don’t restart every time there is a cycling crash. And medals are lost even when crashes aren’t the person who loses outs fault. They have a card system but it doesn’t rectify consequences just (hopefully) prevents further issues.