rdx-fx wrote:
The athletes won their medals.
With their own insane training schedules, their own genetics, and their own doping doctors (in some cases).
Fellow countrymen watching at home had fuckall to do with it.
Really don't understand why people get all worked up over athletes they don't know, and who's name they will have forgotten in a month, that just happen to share a similar looking passport.
Unless you were there, at 3:30am, every day for the last 4 years, holding a stopwatch for that athlete - what difference does it make which country they're from?
It's the Olympics.
Admire the athletes who are outstanding performers, even in the company of the worlds best.
If they're not competing for their country, why do team sports require all members to be from the same country?