The medal standings
This is comical
China is only sending the ones that didn't qualify for the Olympics
High school teams and local clubs.
and still stacking medals 😬
To this point, I am South African and the participants include 13 year olds:
Fuck. I was hoping this was a joke ! Anyway, let's go South Africa !!!! 🇿🇦
Yay us!!! 🇿🇦
Fok weet. 🙄
So you're saying... they're not sending their best.
The ones with the doping IOC can detect.
You mean the ones who didn't have their IOC investigators paid off?
slaps pockets what pay off.
The fact Russia even lost some of these gold medals is embarrassing.
Good for them! Great for experience.
So many loveable guests
If brics games, why Belarus or Uzbekistan?
They are in the russian squand, they need to make sure a russian athlete will win.
Belarusian current government applied for BRICS membership. Uzbekistan also showed some interest.
BRIBCUS doesn’t have quite the same ring to it
The Russians don't have a very deep bench
Yeah that is weird to me too. Belarus is not even a country.
Wow, looks like china is keeping the good stuff for the Olympics
China clearly saved their best for the Olympics
So this is basically the former Soviet bloc’s answer to the commonwealth games..?
They also tried for their own version of Eurovision, which went roughly the same way.
Uzbekistan's are all in weightlifting
Those numbers are just made up. In a normal tournament there would be an equal amount of gold, silver and bronze medals.
Not if there are competitions with one or two participants or if there are ties
If there are more than 4 participating countries then some medals would have been won by teams not on the list. Also a situation like the picture where there wasn’t 3 finishers would throw off the even medal totals
In the picture, the only medal that was won was gold, it might not have been the only competition where something like this happened.
😂 proof that this isn’t a normal competition is in the original screenshot of this post. There is no event in the Olympics with one participant who automatically wins gold. That will end up with the skewed medal count that you see
Not coincidental at all that it goes from Russia’s favorite to least favorite in perfect sequence and relative medal counts.
Total of 203 gold, 171 silver, 155 bronze.
Assuming those are the only countries competing, that means there was 32 events with only 1 competitor and 16 events with only 2 competitors.
No, there are many more countries competing, those were just the top medal winners. Here is some of the ‘tail’
Rumor has it he still needed steroids to win.
Not to forget the new disciplines such as window jumps forwards and backwards, both solo and in pairs.
Is waterpolonium included?
He needed steroids to get last place.
Actually, drone footages have shown to the world. How good russians are for jumping, front flips, back flips...
Of course they can do it only once. But you know, they are very dedicated to mother russia.
They are even beasts at the turret launching !
For context, the winner of this event at the ‘24 World Aquatics Championships, Giorgio Minisini, scored 210.1355. The Winner at the ‘23 event, Dennis Gonzalez, scored 193.0334.
They have also made this Russian guy the best in the world.
I was about to go check it because I suspected as much. Seems I was right. Thanks for posting the results.
For a second I read that as Danny Gonzalez and I was like GREGGG
I can't believe bro apologized over a Starbucks cup lmao.
I was looking for this comment ahah
Not for long he is. My mom just gave me a score of one gazillion points 💪
This sounds a bit like the NFL, where only US-based American Football teams play, awarding "World Champion" titles, as if there weren't any American Football teams outside of the US
Or Mr. Universe when there are no aliens competing.. that we know of.
It’s closer to the NBA or MLB doing that, where there are actually competitive leagues around the world. Nobody else really plays American Football at a high level outside the US.
Also, lotta international players in the NBA or MLB. And as for nation v nation, I say the World Baseball Classic matters more now than the FIBA World Cup, but not quite Olympic basketball in terms of ratings.
Years ago the MLB stopped calling the World Series winners World Champions and started calling them World Series Champions, which I appreciate. The NBA needs to get with the program.
There aren't any good enough to compete so it doesn't really matter.
Yeah because no one cares about American football lmao
Unless you're in America. I live in the south in the United States. I get a look of absolute bewilderment when someone asks who my team is, and I respond with "I couldn't care less about football".
Yeah
This can't be real... They would have 100% given themselves gold, silver, and bronze.
They can't. I'm even surprised nk didn't send people... medals for weapons
They sent 12 people.
There was only one competitor in this event.
Only Russia and Belarus are banned from participating in the actual official version of the Olympics 2024.
So I don't see how a Brics Nation could prefer this cheap knockoff version instead of the real Olympics.
Russia is simply butthurt they cannot participate.
Some russian and belarus athletes are allowed to participate in Paris.
https://olympics.com/ioc/paris-2024-individual-neutral-athletes
Then can participate, just not in Russian colors. Pretty much the same.
Depends on the sport. For example for tennis players ranking points are also up for grabs, so they will participate regardless of whether they get a flag or not. And at the end of the day if you win an Olympics gold, you have made history and will be forever remembered regardless.
Why should they oppose different games? Just another start for the second-tier sportsmen who don't go to Paris.
How come china and Brasil didn't send anyone?
Cause why would they humiliate themselves like this?
Because they’re sending their good athletes to the real Olympics.
They did. Brazil sent 110 athletes. However, that doesn't mean 110 of their top athletes.
Not only now, btw. Russia as a nation was disqualified from Tokyo 2020 as well, because of mass doping issues. Not to mention many other sport events. So it is understandable that Russia wants some kind of tournament for their athletes before all of them emigrates, but as you mentioned, it's hard to find friends for such an event when you were punished for being a bully and a cheater.
yet, there are quite a lot of nations:
That said, the wikipedia article specifically mentions that all nations (with the exception of Russia, Belarus, and Brazil) are sending weaker teams than the Olympics. You could check the citation on that, but for multiple reasons this is very clearly Russia's response to being kicked out of the Olympics. Seeing as how the last version of this competition was 1/3rd the size and had 1/3rd the competitors and I don't think even a 1/4 of the budget. Also, it seems a little unfair that Russia is holding onto over 100 gold medals in a game that they organized.
I just checked, and although Brazil did get a few medals, they definitely didn't send the best athletes, not the ones that are going to the Olympics. They probably sent the best that didn't make it there.
No there is not, check the nations most of them have 0 participants
If you sent your best, they may get arrested and traded for some war criminal.
Yeah, because Russia is banned yet Israel and USA isn't. Because Olympics aren't about sport anymore.
Russia was caught doping...
Ah yes here it is. The comment which says "invading a peaceful neighbor is the same as invading a neighbor who sends rockets over the border on a daily basis and killed 1.000 people in a state coordinated terror attack."
And no, in don´t want to say that Israel is a perfect country free from any guild. I just want to say that you have to be very dumb or you have to fall for the Hamas propaganda to say the Russian invasion is equal to the Gaza war.
What are you even talking about?
Are you trying to compare what is happening in Israel with what Russia has been doing the past ten years in Ukraine?? You're sick, if you are.
"Russia has been doing for ten years" Russia was sitting back looking at Ukrainian state sponsored Nazzis shelling living quarters, playgrounds killing thousands, raping, pillaging and killing anyone who spoke out against them.
Ah yes, Russian Olympics. Is just as good.
We have Olympics at home! (Puting)
What’s the Russian word for bigliest?
Why is it in English?
Because it is INTERNATIONAL GAMES!!!! 😂
Vie yew hev to be med? Is only game!
it actually is:
What is that cursed afghan flag
Anglican linguistic domination baby!
Because reasons
Isn’t India the largest English speaking country in the world?
Only if they do the needful and revert back.
Are you serious?
He's close, USA #1 and India #2.
India is so culturally diverse and has a large mixture of languages. So they use English as their national language to standardise communication.
English is not the National Language but one of the many official and administrative languages used by the Government of India.
I'd imagine quite some Chinese people do not speak Russian
It's not brics game if there is no bics.
China invests huge amount of effort into its olympic sports so it's not gonna forgo that.
But it is odd that China is a no show.
China did send athletes
And no North Korea!
NK isnt in BRICS
BRINKCS
Just make it BRICKS
Yes it is: cement blocks are too technologically advanced for them.
The game's website was too embarrassed to specify the real flag of Afghanistan, because the Taliban is still officially considered a terrorist organisation. Although Taliban leaders are already making official visits to Russia.
No swimmers from China, India, Brazil and South Africa? OK.
There are 97 countries participating in the BRICS games. Here you go! I was just as surprised.
Brazil has 110 participants! I'm Brazilian and this is the 1st time I'm reading about any of this. Makes one wonders why.
“Congratulations, you made the Brazilian national team…”
“WOOHOO!”
“…for the BRICS Games.”
“D’OH!”
Apparently Germany, France and Italy are participating as well. Sadly their athletes are not performing as expected as they got 0 medals. Lol.
Sad to see The Netherlands has not been able to qualify for this prestigious event. Ah, well better luck next time.
To be fair... It says men solo
Why's he smiling like he did something 💀
He is smiling because the FSB knows where his family lives.
Let's get real guys, they would totally dominate a mental gymnastics Olympics.
Tough competition
The reason he’s the only participant is because this is Solo Synchronised Swimming. This sport was part of the Olympic Games between 1984 and 1992. It’s been brought back recently and he was the only competitor in this category. I get that people like to shit on everything Russian but there’s context missing here. There’s a total of 2880 participants from 89 countries. Interesting fact! There’s 12 participants from North Korea.
Solo synchronized swimming?
Isn’t that a bit like radio ventriloquism?
The actual name is artistic swimming, sychronized doesn't fit in this case lol
Well, that’s a whole new meaning to Men Solo
We have Olympics at home. Olympics at home:
Probably still doped
I wanna know what those athletes are thinking and feeling in that moment
Imagine only having 10 sponsors so you feel the need to plaster the same logo 10 times each to make it seem like there’s a lot of sponsors.
These people have no shame whatsoever
History repeats. After the US boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow; The USSR held their own games in 1984 when the Games were in LA. They called it, The Friendship Games. Mostly communist bloc nations and western nations' B squads that failed to qualify for the actual olympics.
Holy Crap! I just looked it up, Russia is moving ahead with reviving their games the second half of September!
A circle jerk of dictatorships and banana republics.
No banana republics in BRICS though. Banana republics were countries whose governments were controlled by US fruit companies at the expense of their citizens.
We'll have our own olympics...with hookers and blackjack, comrade.
I really don't see the need to ban regular Russians frim silly things like the Olympics.
Even though i agree that it is weird that there was only one competitor in this category, i think it's fair of me to say that this is not russia's alternative to Olympics, the Brics games exist since 2017, it happens yearly and most countries competing in it, compete in both events.
Ppl dont seem to have an issue with european sports events, so i don't see why would anyone act differently to a BRRICS one.
He's smiling now, wait until he fails the dope test .
100% someone in Russia has watched The Dictator with Sasha Baron Cohen…
Considering China has been performing amongst the world's best in swimming I'm surprised they didn't enter anyone.
They should add a new discipline called «Drone evasion», altough the ruskis wouldn’t be too good at that.
GG EZ
We should respond with making our own DUPLO games
I have a few questions
Joint first place and last place!
ГОООООЛ
Literally "Men Solo". 😆 Btw this looks like the games held by Aladeen in the beginning of "The Dictator". Only difference is that instead of Putin, Russia is the obvious winner.
Russia won 137% of gold medals
It says Men Solo what's so funny?
Holy shit. I can't believe this is real.
Can you feel the patriotism ?
"Men Solo" or "Solo Men"? :D
Holy shit, it's like the Russia's elections, except no bullshit opponents.
Literally "men solo"
I hope that there are athletes there who pass their urine to FSB agents through a hole in the wall 10 years ago at the Olympics in Sochi and they are very “enjoying” the competition in such a lineup.
Eat it!
Did everyone else drown??
That's honestly so fucking sad and funny at the same time.
Depressing.
Solo
Wait that’s not satire , that’s real ?
Loser countries do loser Olympics
Well, it gives a chance to his contenders at the Olympics, as he won't be here to absolutely outclass them.
Artistic indeed
Probably still doping to all fuck
"man solo artistic swimming" doesn't look like the most popular category.
Awe, I thought it said free pouting, not free routine
Why are countries with no athletes competing, being listed as participating? Like the UK
That really was "men solo"
They would.
That is unbelievably pathetic
I love the sponsors in the background just being the same sponsors copy pasted lmao. How miserable
Men Solo.. 🤣🤣
brick game? so tetris?
I guess doping from russians must be even worse there
Intriguing that some of the 'countries' entering aren't really recognized by anyone- Ossetia, Abkhazia etc. And the sports are interesting-fascinating that chess is included here. Not so sure about some of the others such as 'Sambo','Koresh','Belt-wrestling' or the wild 'Acrobatic rock'n'roll!'
They run marathons holding stolen toilet seats (plus steroids 😂)
Ooo, free poutine!
Now this is sport I can watch!
I should've signed up for it, if I knew. I could've gotten silver or bronze, just by participating
Hahahaha, fucking losers!
Aleksandr Maltsev is the first russian man in artistic swimming. Well, and as we see, the only one. I'm more surprised that this is a discipline at all at BRICS games...
What's that Sunny episode where Sweet Dee throws a talent competition so she can win? That's the Russians
Chlorine from the pool cleaned the blood spilled from the others competitors.
BRICS games has more than 2 thousand athletes from more than 60 countries. This guy is four times world champion so he would probably win anyways, and that's the only competition in BRICS games with only one athlete. Showing this as a representation is misleading on purpose. You don't need to lie to make Russia look bad. There is actual bad stuff about it anyways
Sorry but any event that goes through with only 1 competitor is bad. This is just laughable
There aren't 60 countries there, the games website claims many countries but with a number of athletes of 0.
wow, a russian with full set of limbs. Rare sight to see.
Отличная возможность увидеть уровень развития спорта в РФ. Всякая диктатура устраивает для себя показуху.
Free poutine?
My favorite political subreddit.
Cry about it nazi
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