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wonita (X)
China
Local time: 12:14
When your native country plays against your country of residence, for whom does your heart beat?
| | | | Ty Kendall 
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:14
Hebrew to English
| Depends who deserves the support | Aug 1, 2012 |
I tend to support Israel in most things, despite the fact I don't live there.
However, it really does depend on whether they deserve such loyalty, if Israel had been guilty of this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19074013
I'd probably think twice about supporting them.
| | | | avsie (X)
Local time: 18:14
English to French
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I cheer for both Canada and the Netherlands in general. But if athletes from both countries compete in the same final, I can't help cheering for my birth country first. And I do feel disappointed (or jealous, also possible ) if a Dutch athlete wins a medal while a Canadian one doesn't, for example. It makes for interesting conversations with my Dutch husband. He would say: "Hey, did you hear, we won a medal!" And I would ask: "Who ... See more I cheer for both Canada and the Netherlands in general. But if athletes from both countries compete in the same final, I can't help cheering for my birth country first. And I do feel disappointed (or jealous, also possible) if a Dutch athlete wins a medal while a Canadian one doesn't, for example. It makes for interesting conversations with my Dutch husband. He would say: "Hey, did you hear, we won a medal!" And I would ask: "Who is we?" And he would then tell me that xyz Dutch athlete won a medal, and also tell me matter-of-factly that there was also a Canadian, and she/he didn't do better than a xth place...  ▲ Collapse
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 18:14
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Ty Kendall wrote: I tend to support Israel in most things, despite the fact I don't live there. However, it really does depend on whether they deserve such loyalty, if Israel had been guilty of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19074013 I'd probably think twice about supporting them.
Quite. I rate this kind of cheating on a par with doping. Totally against the Olympic spirit.
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wonita (X)
China
Local time: 12:14
TOPIC STARTER | what you can do in this situation | Aug 1, 2012 |
Ty Kendall wrote: However, it really does depend on whether they deserve such loyalty, if Israel had been guilty of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19074013 I'd probably think twice about supporting them.
Support them to lose...
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 18:14
Spanish to English
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In football (soccer), because I'm Scottish, I usually support Spain, for obvious reasons.
Otherwise I tend to switch to favour the underdog whoever is playing, even during a match or competition.
| | | | Phil Hand
China
Local time: 00:14
Chinese to English
| Pleased about China's success... | Aug 1, 2012 |
But I can't bring myself to cheer for them much. The coverage here is too in-your-face. Mind you, I don't really cheer for the Brits, either. I just don't care enough.
About the badminton thing - seems to me like a badly-designed tournament. Why would you not expect gamesmanship? Of course people will do anything to win. This isn't the amateur era any more.
| | | | | This Olympics . . . | Aug 1, 2012 |
I find myself rooting more for Japan, unless Japan and the United States are facing off directly. However, if the U.S. women's soccer team ends up facing Japan's, I think I'll be rooting for Japan. It's no fault of the U.S. team's, but all of those awful "Pearl Harbor" comments on Facebook after the Japanese women's team beat the U.S. in the World Cup made me really ashamed of my home country and angry.
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Ty Kendall
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:14
Hebrew to English
Bin Tiede wrote: Ty Kendall wrote: However, it really does depend on whether they deserve such loyalty, if Israel had been guilty of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19074013 I'd probably think twice about supporting them. Support them to lose...
Those specific athletes yes. They don't deserve support. I think they've done China a great disservice.
But there's plenty of Chinese athletes in other events who surely do deserve it.
I'm not saying abandon supporting your country, just abandon supporting the athletes who cheat i.e. the kind of athletes you wouldn't want representing your country in the first place!
@Phil
It's on BBC One here pretty much all day, every day. It dominates the news. It's inescapable.
@Bin
The question of divided loyalties is far easier to answer when it comes to Eurovision - since the UK always produces songs/acts not worthy of support!
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:14
Member (2008)
Italian to English
| Olympics-free zone here | Aug 1, 2012 |
I'm having trouble finding a TV channel or radio station that isn't all about the Olympics. Meanwhile London is a ghost town. Shops, taxis, restaurants etc are reporting a 60% drop in turnover. Many Londoners have left for the duration. And I'm leaving too, in 3 days' time.
| | | | Berna Bleeke (X)
Local time: 18:14
English to Dutch
| I don't know any of these people | Aug 1, 2012 |
Why should I care who wins?
| | | | | French living in ireland | Aug 1, 2012 |
In the Olympics games I will support Ireland if they had a team...
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Heinrich Pesch
Finland
Local time: 19:14
Member (2003)
Finnish to German
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| Always with the underdog | Aug 1, 2012 |
I like it when the big favorites lose. It happens too seldom though.
| | | | Inga Petkelyte
Portugal
Local time: 17:14
Lithuanian to Portuguese
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| My tiny Lithuania, of course :) | Aug 1, 2012 |
Indeed, I am proud to the bottom of my heart of our very young swimmer Ruta, Olympic Gold medalist
Luckily, on most of occasions, I don't need to divide myself: Lithuania is for basket and Portugal is for footbal. Let no one say a word against Portugal when the Portuguese team is playing !!
| | | | Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 13:14
Portuguese to English
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