…stays in China, especially gold medals, which the Chinese want so much they’re willing to cheat their heads off to get them.
Said cheating includes fielding a gymnastics team full of toddlers. How do we know that? Well, that’s what their passports, issued by the ever so honest Chinese government says. How could it be otherwise?
And if you can’t beat the best gymnast, why not fudge a couple scores and arrange a tie, that you win through an arcane tie-breaking method?
A big raft of gold medals is just the thing the ChiComs need to take the minds of the people off of their economic misery, the dead children crushed under substandard schoolhouses built by corrupt government officials, the thousands in prison to daring to challenge the government, and the hundreds of thousands throw out of their homes and lands so the government could build the shiny new venues for the Olympics. It’s very obliging of the IOC to give the ChiComs the cover they need to pull that off without a hitch.
It’s almost like paying a prostitute for a hummer and getting a bonus boink in the bargain. I hope the ICO at least brought its best kneepads.
