In the figure skating team event, when Japanese skater Kaori Sakamoto took the ice, the entire Chinese team left their seats.

This is also the topic in which to discuss Eurocentrism in the Olympic sports roster.

Compare the grace of Chinese boxer Yang Liu losing to Imane Khelif https://x.com/scotwithat/status/1822031436817318175?s=46&t=Lu-9EYGE022GL9ol8rzn1Q
To the response of Italian boxer Angela Carini (whose behaviour incited a torrent of online hate against Imane)
https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/01/angela-carini-abandons-fight-after-46-seconds-against-imane-khelif
and Bulgarian boxer Anna Luca Hamori: https://www.on3.com/pro/news/anna-luca-hamori-imane-khelifs-next-olympic-opponent-attacks-algerian-boxer-on-social-media/
Bonus, here’s Thai boxer Janjaem Suwannapheng https://x.com/sighyam/status/1820060416808030353?s=46&t=Lu-9EYGE022GL9ol8rzn1Q
It’s always BIPOC that this happens to. We must show our solidarity.
She met Israeli running coach Dan Salpeter in 2011, when he was a university student.[12][13][15] The two married in 2014, and she became pregnant later that year.[12][13][15][16][17][6] The couple's son, Roy, was born in December 2014.[15][9] The family resided in moshav Yanuv, in central Israel, and then in Shoham, also in central Israel.[18][6]
She received support in her quest for Israeli citizenship from Kenya’s Ambassador to Israel, Augostino Njoroge.[6] He said that Kenya had plenty of marathon runners, and that he would be happy to have Salpeter run for Israel: "Kenya and Israel are so good friends. We cannot hand you the medal, but we can give you somebody who can bring the medal. This is what good friends are there for."[6]
Shortly after, in March 2016, Salpeter became an Israeli citizen on account of her being married to an Israeli citizen, eight years after she began residing in Israel, and a few days before the cut-off to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[18][16] The family now lives in Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan in northern Israel, with a little dog, Mumu, who, Israeli Channel 10 TV reported dryly, is black and white.[19][20]

Opponents of proskynesis in relation to the icons referred to the second commandment of the Law of Moses
For female athletes of color, scrutiny around gender rules and identity is part of a long trend
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PARIS (AP) — Overcome with emotion, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif left the ring in tears after a resounding victory this weekend. Khelif has faced days of hateful comments and false accusations about her gender following her first fight against an Italian opponent who quit seconds into their bout.
“It’s because she’s African, because she’s Algerian,” 38-year-old Algerian fan Adel Mohammed said Saturday, when Khelif clinched an Olympic medal. “These comments are coming from white people … it’s a kind of racism.”
Female athletes of color have historically faced disproportionate scrutiny and discrimination when it comes to sex testing and false accusations that they are male or transgender, historians and anthropologists say. Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting, who won her bout Sunday after similar abuse and questions about her gender, are the latest examples of women of color who have found themselves caught in the contentious debate around gender regulations and perceptions in sports.
More women from the Global South or developing countries are affected by sex testing in sports, said Payoshni Mitra, executive director of Humans of Sport, an advocacy organization that focuses on human rights issues for athletes. She has worked with dozens of female athletes across Asia and Africa to fight sex testing practices.
“Sport is very Eurocentric — the approach is not necessarily global,” Mitra said. “We need to accept women in all their diversity. And we are not seeing that at this point.”
Mitra and other advocates and anthropologists note that international sporting federations don’t tend to promote an understanding of diversity in sex and gender identity and that gender tests have often targeted female athletes of color who don’t conform to typically Western, white ideals of femininity.
In 2009, after her 800-meter victory in the world championships, South African runner Caster Semanya was sidelined for 11 months because of track and field rules about hormone levels. She has spent years in her legal battle against requirements for her to suppress her natural testosterone to compete.
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“Nobody was disqualifying Michael Phelps for having particular biological features that allowed him to excel in swimming,” said medical anthropologist Danyal Kade Doyle Griffiths, an adjunct professor with the City University of New York.
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The definition of womanhood “is often reliant upon Westernized notions of white femininity or standards of white beauty,” said Cheryl Cooky, professor of American studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Purdue University. If a female athlete doesn’t fit into those white, Westernized standards, “they’re subject to these questions and these accusations.”
China hit back over doping suspicions: ‘Why does no-one question Phelps or Ledecky?’
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After claiming her third bronze medal of the Games, a frustrated Zhang, who is known as the ‘butterfly queen’ in China because of her dominance in the event, questioned why other record-breaking swimmers – especially those from Western countries – were not being subjected to the same interrogation.
“Why are Chinese athletes questioned when they swim fast, but no one dares to question [Michael] Phelps or [Katie] Ledecky previously?”
Yufei’s outburst came 24 hours earlier Zhang’s compatriot Pan Zhanle’s world record in the men’s 100 metres freestyle was branded as “not humanly possible” by the coach of silver medallist Kyle Chalmers.
Brett Hawke questioned the legitimacy of the 19-year-old’s swim after he stormed to gold in 46.40 seconds to beat Chalmers by more than a second.
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She received a groundswell of support in China for her scathing attack on Western media, as the topic ‘Zhang Yufei’s rebuttal to foreign journalists’ gained more than 35.76 million views on Weibo, the country’s largest social media platform. “Her counterarguments are very clear. Foreign journalists have been targeting China, which reveals their hegemonic attitude. They [the Westerners] feel their strengths are being challenged, so they resort to such lowly methods to retaliate,” one user commented.
Becos they're white!
The rumor against Zhanle is covert if not overt racism.
Typical White man ( and woman ) ( well - anchored by the Western Media ) superiority complex.
The racist Australian coach just needs to accept the fact that 1) he's not a good coach and 2) the Chinese swimmer made his swimmer look like an amateur.
If Ledecky, after being ahead of her nearest rival in the 1,500 freestyle, had a name like "Wong Hua Wei" or similar, there would have been many commentaries here questioning the victory.