Do you root against Russia in every Olympic event?

[Landslide Lyndon]

I'm sure that I know something more about that matter than you.

Well I guess Nauru put up a few weightlifters for Commonwealth and Olympics so maybe you're right.

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Who has claimed this? I don't believe I did. I think my argument may even have been closer to the opposite...

Are you an American or do you just believe that Russian athletes are the embodiment of absolute evil? Otherwise I can't understand why you started to froth from the mouth for saying something that's common knowledge.

P.S. I should add the Belgians as equally insufferable in their self-righteousness when it comes to doping.

[Miles]

No, but I root against UNC in every college sport.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Are you an American or do you just believe that Russian athletes are the embodiment of absolute evil?

That's an odd thing to write because actually I posted this...

Of course there have been issues with U.S swimming in the past and as such some of the rhetoric is ugly and hypocritical

...so no I don't think that Russian athletes are the embodiment of absolute evil, that all U.S. athletes are clean or whatever. That would be absurd. Swimming has a doping problem, as does athletics. This is problematic, but it does not justify the sort of small-minded mentality that insists that they're all a bunch of cheats anyway and which often seems to be rooted in rather ugly patterns of thought.

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I suppose that It Stands To Reason as well?

[Landslide Lyndon]

Are you an American or do you just believe that Russian athletes are the embodiment of absolute evil?

That's an odd thing to write because actually I posted this...

Of course there have been issues with U.S swimming in the past and as such some of the rhetoric is ugly and hypocritical

...so no I don't think that Russian athletes are the embodiment of absolute evil, that all U.S. athletes are clean or whatever. That would be absurd. Swimming has a doping problem, as does athletics. This is problematic, but it does not justify the sort of small-minded mentality that insists that they're all a bunch of cheats anyway and which often seems to be rooted in rather ugly patterns of thought.

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I suppose that It Stands To Reason as well?

Well, I hate to break your rose-colored bubble but that's the ugly truth. Everybody takes drugs. To ignore it and believe that some of our sports heroes are squeaky clean and triumph through sheer talent over their dastardly cheating opponents, that's a fairy tale.
Cynical? Maybe. But I prefer that to the tsk-tsking of the Very Serious People everytime some poor schmuck gets caught.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well I mean that's mostly training isn't it? Hard work over an extended period of time to reach absurd levels of physical fitness. I understand that this is an alien concept to you given your girth, but it is a real thing, honest. And Phelps, of course, is a physical freak and therein lies the root of his talent.

Of course there have been issues with U.S swimming in the past and as such some of the rhetoric is ugly and hypocritical, but so is yours.

I agree with your point, but couldn't you possibly make it without resorting to personal attacks on someone's looks?

I really don't see why those are more acceptable than other forms of bigotry.