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tenacity
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
1587 Posts
August 17 2016 08:20 GMT
#941
On August 17 2016 09:18 Rookie6 wrote:
The animosity towards France grew in the last day over here, so I fear this might not be that uncommon until the end of the Olympics.


why is that?
It does not need to be fun to be fun.
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22308 Posts
August 17 2016 09:28 GMT
#942
On August 17 2016 17:20 tenacity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 09:18 Rookie6 wrote:
The animosity towards France grew in the last day over here, so I fear this might not be that uncommon until the end of the Olympics.


why is that?

A french athlete got upset that the Brazilian crowd was booing him and as shown when it was discussed earlier in this thread there are plenty of Brazilians who cant accept that booing is considered disrespectful in the rest of the world.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
August 17 2016 09:47 GMT
#943
On August 17 2016 18:28 Gorsameth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 17:20 tenacity wrote:
On August 17 2016 09:18 Rookie6 wrote:
The animosity towards France grew in the last day over here, so I fear this might not be that uncommon until the end of the Olympics.


why is that?

A french athlete got upset that the Brazilian crowd was booing him and as shown when it was discussed earlier in this thread there are plenty of Brazilians who cant accept that booing is considered disrespectful in the rest of the world.

I have the feeling France vs Brazil in handball today is gonna be hot
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bardtown
Profile Joined June 2011
England2313 Posts
August 17 2016 10:03 GMT
#944
I think it's safe to say at this point that we haven't quite done enough to hold onto 2nd place with our strongest events behind us and China's still to come. So many close silvers! A few milliseconds here or there and it might have been possible. A brilliant Olympics for us, at any rate, and the breadth of our medals is fantastic too.
Rookie6
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Brazil583 Posts
August 17 2016 10:15 GMT
#945
On August 17 2016 18:28 Gorsameth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 17:20 tenacity wrote:
On August 17 2016 09:18 Rookie6 wrote:
The animosity towards France grew in the last day over here, so I fear this might not be that uncommon until the end of the Olympics.


why is that?

A french athlete got upset that the Brazilian crowd was booing him and as shown when it was discussed earlier in this thread there are plenty of Brazilians who cant accept that booing is considered disrespectful in the rest of the world.


Forgot to mention that he compared himself to Jesse Owens and Brazil to nazi Germany.
stilt
Profile Joined October 2012
France2755 Posts
August 17 2016 10:20 GMT
#946
On August 17 2016 19:15 Rookie6 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 18:28 Gorsameth wrote:
On August 17 2016 17:20 tenacity wrote:
On August 17 2016 09:18 Rookie6 wrote:
The animosity towards France grew in the last day over here, so I fear this might not be that uncommon until the end of the Olympics.


why is that?

A french athlete got upset that the Brazilian crowd was booing him and as shown when it was discussed earlier in this thread there are plenty of Brazilians who cant accept that booing is considered disrespectful in the rest of the world.


Forgot to mention that he compared himself to Jesse Owens and Brazil to nazi Germany.


He says he received the same treatment, not that he was like him or that Brasil was Nazis Germany.
You and your press like deforming claims aren't you?
Otolia
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
France5805 Posts
August 17 2016 10:28 GMT
#947
People need to take a chill pill. On one side, Lavillenie said stupid things just after a tough championship - which he presented his apologies afterwards. He did congratulate Thiago and hasn't said a bad thing about him in any interviews. On the other side, it seems Brazilian media was just looking for a vilain and was fetching at straws everywhere.

Still it's regrettable to see its effects on other athletes like the french boxer who lost against last night (against a brazilian)
OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-17 10:35:37
August 17 2016 10:30 GMT
#948
On August 17 2016 19:15 Rookie6 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 18:28 Gorsameth wrote:
On August 17 2016 17:20 tenacity wrote:
On August 17 2016 09:18 Rookie6 wrote:
The animosity towards France grew in the last day over here, so I fear this might not be that uncommon until the end of the Olympics.


why is that?

A french athlete got upset that the Brazilian crowd was booing him and as shown when it was discussed earlier in this thread there are plenty of Brazilians who cant accept that booing is considered disrespectful in the rest of the world.


Forgot to mention that he compared himself to Jesse Owens and Brazil to nazi Germany.

No. He said

La dernière fois qu'on a vu ça, c'est quand Jesse Owens a couru en 1936. C'est juste incroyable, ça fait chier d'avoir un public de merde comme ça sur des JO.

Which I'd translate as

The last time we saw this was when Jesse Owens ran in 1936. It's just incredible, it sucks to have such shitty fans like that at the Olympics.

He's not comparing Brazil to Nazi Germany, he's saying that the amount of booing he got was similar to Owens' in 1936. It's perhaps not a fair comparison (I have no idea, I wasn't around back then), but it's not "ur durr Brazil is Nazis omg" as some Brazilians make it out to be. It's incredible that social pressure made him apologize for this, while he really didn't say anything that was terribly shocking.
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Rookie6
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Brazil583 Posts
August 17 2016 10:34 GMT
#949
On August 17 2016 19:20 stilt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 19:15 Rookie6 wrote:
On August 17 2016 18:28 Gorsameth wrote:
On August 17 2016 17:20 tenacity wrote:
On August 17 2016 09:18 Rookie6 wrote:
The animosity towards France grew in the last day over here, so I fear this might not be that uncommon until the end of the Olympics.


why is that?

A french athlete got upset that the Brazilian crowd was booing him and as shown when it was discussed earlier in this thread there are plenty of Brazilians who cant accept that booing is considered disrespectful in the rest of the world.


Forgot to mention that he compared himself to Jesse Owens and Brazil to nazi Germany.


He says he received the same treatment, not that he was like him or that Brasil was Nazis Germany.
You and your press like deforming claims aren't you?


Yeah, and that's not comparing... Owens received that because of racism, which has nothing to do with the reason the brazilians were booing, which was to make foreign athlets nervous. You can think whathever you like about booing (I'm not a fan of it by the way), but he was very unfortunate in his declaration.

Draconicfire
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2562 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-17 10:34:48
August 17 2016 10:34 GMT
#950
So I just read about how Adam van Koeverden won the Kayaking 1000m B Finals with a time that would have gotten him a silver medal if he was in the A Finals. I get that he didn't make the A Finals so he shouldn't get a medal, but why do they have a B Finals to begin with? It just seems like an unnecessary race at that point since nothing is on the line.
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fLyiNgDroNe
Profile Joined September 2005
Belgium4081 Posts
August 17 2016 11:25 GMT
#951
On August 17 2016 19:30 OtherWorld wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 19:15 Rookie6 wrote:
On August 17 2016 18:28 Gorsameth wrote:
On August 17 2016 17:20 tenacity wrote:
On August 17 2016 09:18 Rookie6 wrote:
The animosity towards France grew in the last day over here, so I fear this might not be that uncommon until the end of the Olympics.


why is that?

A french athlete got upset that the Brazilian crowd was booing him and as shown when it was discussed earlier in this thread there are plenty of Brazilians who cant accept that booing is considered disrespectful in the rest of the world.


Forgot to mention that he compared himself to Jesse Owens and Brazil to nazi Germany.

No. He said
Show nested quote +

La dernière fois qu'on a vu ça, c'est quand Jesse Owens a couru en 1936. C'est juste incroyable, ça fait chier d'avoir un public de merde comme ça sur des JO.

Which I'd translate as
Show nested quote +

The last time we saw this was when Jesse Owens ran in 1936. It's just incredible, it sucks to have such shitty fans like that at the Olympics.

He's not comparing Brazil to Nazi Germany, he's saying that the amount of booing he got was similar to Owens' in 1936. It's perhaps not a fair comparison (I have no idea, I wasn't around back then), but it's not "ur durr Brazil is Nazis omg" as some Brazilians make it out to be. It's incredible that social pressure made him apologize for this, while he really didn't say anything that was terribly shocking.


non-brazilian source:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/37104031

so what i read:
1. For most of us such behavior of the fans is indeed shocking and inappropriate
2. Thomas Bach and IOC of course finds this disturbing
3. Many of the Brazilians do feel this was not nice:

Rio 2016 chief spokesman Mario Andrada said: "As citizens of Brazil and as sports fans, we don't think booing is the right attitude, even when you are in a one-to-one competition and a young Brazilian has the chance to beat the world champion.
"We plan to intensify our dialogue with Brazilian fans through social networks to make sure that we behave as fans in a proper and elegant manner, without losing the passion for sport."

but i will ask again:
If you live in Brazil and for you this was a norm since when you were a kid and you don't travel around the globe to learn other behavior, how do you learn except from cases like that? Its so easy to judge and feel superior by just having an easy access to any sports event there is.

Calling brazilian culture a banana culture and saying no sports event should have happened in Rio due to fans not knowing social etiquette is really strange :D
Drone is a way of living
Ghostcom
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark4783 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-17 12:30:29
August 17 2016 11:42 GMT
#952
I think I would be able to apply enough logical thought by myself to reach the conclusion that spectators trying to psyche an athlete at an event cherishing sportsmanship, fair competition, and unity is probably not really in the spirit of said event...

Brazil should never have had these Olympics for multiple other reasons (corruption, shit infrastructure, poverty, the list goes on) - the booing is pretty much a non-argument when making the case for why giving Brazil the Olympic Games was a bad idea.

EDIT: I think this topic has been pretty much exhausted though, so I'll stick with cheering from now on.
OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
August 17 2016 11:55 GMT
#953
I'm sorry, but I think saying that "oh these poor Brazilians don't travel around the world, they can't know that it's bad to boo athletes..." is much more insulting to the Brazilians and is in fact implying that Brazilians have a "banana culture". I refuse to think that the Brazilian culture prevents individuals from thinking by themselves along with relating to personal experience : no, you don't boo individual athletes.
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mdb
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Bulgaria4059 Posts
August 17 2016 12:23 GMT
#954
I`m really surprised that Brazilian people have such low sport culture. I`ve always thought that they are into sports.
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34173 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-17 12:38:24
August 17 2016 12:36 GMT
#955
Problem is that brazilian (and all of SA for all that matters) are mostly football fans, sport culture around here is pretty minimal bar football (and some others like Argentina basketball, Venezuela Baseball, etc... but very few, and even less so on gymnastics)

In many of those sports is pretty normal to "boo" the other team to make them nervous (as you might know btw), but is not on gymnastics, and it was incredibly disrespectful...

Problem is, you are playing against culture, and thats not a battle you are going to win, not making excuses for them, but it is what it is... I really cant remember it happening elsewhere at the olympics too (when the home guy plays), which makes matter SLIGHTLY worse. Ive seen them regularly since Sidney 2000
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
Rookie6
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Brazil583 Posts
August 17 2016 12:39 GMT
#956
It´s not about thinking about themselves, it´s about the fact that Brazil is simply not used to an event like the Olympics. Booing comes from football, which is also common in other parts of the world and the most popular sport (by far) here in Brazil. Very few brazilians watch or really care about individual sports (nobody even knew who Thiago was before he won the gold) and most only follow it every 4 years, so they behave like they behave when watching football. Of course this doesn´t mean we should praise or accept it, but it does give an explanation from where it comes from.

I can accept and I agree with arguments that Brazil shouldn´t be the host because of violance and such, as I would be against if they decided to host any international event in France after everything that keeps happening there. But it really bothers me when we have people calling the fans "shitty" and our culture not deserving of the Olympics, saying our press like deforming claims when even Le Monde admitted Lavillenie´s coach didn´t really say that about candomble, using expressions like "banana culture" and saying we shouldn´t host the Olympics because of booing when we keep having cases of europeans crowds throwing bananas at players during football matches (which is far worse than booing).

A lot of european people (not the majority of them of course) keeps acting like they are above other people, their crowds are an exemple for the whole world and just because they were disrespected they have the right to disrespect a whole country and culture. We shouldn´t use what I said as an argument to accept the behaviour of the brazilian crowd, which is inexcusable, but try to take your europeans goggles off and start acting like you think you do, because I´m seeing condemnable attitudes from both sides.
OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
August 17 2016 13:12 GMT
#957
^I agree that football fans are terrible in every single country (except Iceland, I guess?). Still doesn't mean Lavillenie's comparison is inaccurate, or that he should be booed for saying that.
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Rookie6
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Brazil583 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-17 13:23:08
August 17 2016 13:22 GMT
#958
I already said that booing is not acceptable, so we are agreeing. Saying Brazil treated him like Nazi Germany I find inaccurate because one is getting booed for racial reasons and the other to destabilize the opponent. Both are wrong, but for very different reasons. The banana throwing I mentioned is closer to the "nazi" treatment than the booing he received. It was a stupid statement, but this was already discussed enough in this thread and we have beach volleyball today!
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18635 Posts
August 17 2016 13:34 GMT
#959
On August 17 2016 22:12 OtherWorld wrote:
^I agree that football fans are terrible in every single country (except Iceland, I guess?). Still doesn't mean Lavillenie's comparison is inaccurate, or that he should be booed for saying that.


Japanese fans are the best in the world. We even clean up stadiums of other countries
bardtown
Profile Joined June 2011
England2313 Posts
August 17 2016 13:41 GMT
#960
On August 17 2016 22:34 sharkie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 22:12 OtherWorld wrote:
^I agree that football fans are terrible in every single country (except Iceland, I guess?). Still doesn't mean Lavillenie's comparison is inaccurate, or that he should be booed for saying that.


Japanese fans are the best in the world. We even clean up stadiums of other countries


Definitely looking forward to Tokyo. It's a bit of an unknown quantity for me, because Japan seems quite cut off from the rest of the world.
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