It’s a really great sign that Ukraine won so few medals at the Rio Olympics. For the longest time, the country was incapable of letting go of the idiotic Soviet legacy where poverty and corruption were somehow redeemed by hauling a truckload of medals from international sports competitions.
Soviet champions were all mostly fake. They doped like crazy, cheated, bribed judges, etc. This is still going on with the Russian team where Secret Service agents actually smuggle in “good pee” to protect athletes from doping charges.
I’m so happy that Ukraine abandoned this Soviet-era travesty and stopped taking these stupid medals all that seriously. If the team wins, great. If it doesn’t, well, sucks for the fans but it means nothing whatsoever for the country at large. It is definitely a lot less important than feeding everybody and defeating corruption. And, of course, winning the war against the piss-peddling neighbors.
Ukraine’s win at the Olympics is truly great because other teams defeated their competitors while Ukraine battled Soviet mentality.
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This may be the best thing you have written. I mostly avoided watching the games. When hearing how well the United States was doing, I kept thinking that this was God having a sense of humor as the country is going down the drain. The fact that members of our swim team behaved like the kind of self entitled white male swine who are voting for Trump clinched it for me.
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Ben, I’m very glad to see you. Hope everything is going good in your life.
Yes, the US swim team incident is beyond pathetic. Athletes tend not to have a lot of personal maturity but this case is truly special.
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Thank God I get to be busy with my work as a tutor and raising my two year old son. Unfortunately this means that I have needed to cut back on my blogging time. I need to teach my son to blog so I will have an excuse to “help” him. He already has his letters, numbers and shapes down so he is well on his way to surpassing the average voter. 🙂
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