2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Games

KomissarBojanchev wrote:This is what you start to do when you read only neoliberal western media:
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My daily deep thought on things relates to the official song of Russia on the Olympics-- the silly song of the duo Tatu -- “You’re not gonna get us.” I am a sort of Tatu fan, although nowadays they sound pretty démodé. However, despite my musical preferences, I can’t stop wandering why on earth an Olympic host would choose a song with such a tasteless refrain--- You’re not gonna get us! (Нас недогонят)??
I mean, it doesn’t show much hospitality, does it? Nor it displays humility, typical of the Olympic spirit. What it shows is a boisterous and baseless bragging about, well, I don’t know about what. Because Russia these days doesn’t have much to brag about, except, of course, corruption and being backward. And, of course, in this respect it has very little competition. That’s why, I find it quite pathetic to announce yourself with this song. If I were a Russian athlete, I would have been embarrassed."

A Bulgarian "liberal" wrote this on facebook.

Vladimir79 wrote:Putin must be shitting a brick that snowflake didn't open to finish the rings.  

Putin must be shitting a brick that snowflake didn't open to finish the rings.

Was big of the Chinese and the Japanese to come out with both Chinese/Japanese and Russian flags.

macedonian wrote:

Vladimir79 wrote:Putin must be shitting a brick that snowflake didn't open to finish the rings.  

Yes that was a bit embarrassing.
But it was a great show altogether. I enjoyed it.

Edit to add:

Was big of the Chinese and the Japanese to come out with both Chinese/Japanese and Russian flags.
The contrast to this were the Germans, pushing an agenda...I hated that personally.

Vann7 wrote:
Its called psychological economic war.
Telling people every 20 minutes that there will be a terrorist attack in Russia
and how it will be.. is simply saying to all the western world.. DONT GO.
Russia invested 50 $US billions in building not only the sport events but also building
a entire new city from scratch . and Western Jewish controlled media is doing everything
they can to find flaws in the Olympics and scare people. CNN discussion forums is nearly filled
with people with complains to CNN to stop their propaganda Anti Russian propaganda. That is getting old.. they even recycle the articles bashing the olympics. And repeat the terrorist attacks that happened last years again and again . And go back in History to all the terrorist attacks in RUssia.. Truly a FEar mongering bashing campaign that have most of their Audience totally disgusted. but is not only exclusive the Rusophobia to American controlled mainstream media but also European mainstream media. I saw the ring "fail' and did not see anything embarrassing about it.. just a minor mistake.

The following report summarize most of the negativity against Sochi Before the events began.

http://rt.com/news/sochi-worst-olympics-toilet-918/

KomissarBojanchev wrote:It really a shame that the Russians are only 7th place in medal count. I thought they'd be more prepared. Instead of making such an impressive, but mostly useless opening, Russia should've invested more money in better training facilities and athletes that don't suck.
Is  there an extremely tiny chance that Russia might in the next few decades have a medal count a bit closer to that of the  USSR?

Hannibal Barca wrote:Why you offend this boy again? If only your logic was shared by all there would be no forum.

Hannibal Barca wrote:Why you offend this boy again? If only your logic was shared by all there would be no forum.

Is there an extremely tiny chance that Russia might in the next few decades have a medal count a bit closer to that of the USSR?

flamming_python wrote:If this Winter Olympics has shown anything - it's that it's about everything else BUT the medals and sport.

For the Russians and their local residents of the area, for the West and its journalists, for the Islamists and their terrorists, etc...

So actually, Russia not finishing on top of the table isn't likely to be such a concern for it, nor for anyone else.
Having said that though; we're seeing the same pattern as in the Summer Olympics too. The disciplines where Russia will excel haven't come up yet for the most part AFAIK. Plenty of time to catch up.