Joker wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:If you're not either from Czech Republic or Slovakia, you can't understand this.
Actually, quite the contrary.
Not being from either of those two countries allows me to be objective and base my judgement on what is rational, not on any bitter emotion.
The notion of an athlete being the embodiment or personification of the country they are competing on behalf of has always been an ill-conceived and illogical idea. They are athletes first and foremost, and the fact they are from county X is really incidental.
Barbora even mentioned the date in an interview. Not being from former eastern bloc country qualifies you to only guessing. Rasho Brezec is right.
The problem with Russians is that their mentality hasn't change since. Now they are in Georgia...
This would be off topic here. UTFG and educate yourself and then return (I don't mean it offensively, but you can hardly understand this when you are not seeing documentaries about murders of random people and other things happened during the occupation not speaking about what it meant for next 20 years in Czechoslovakia; it is hard to put it aside when Russia forces in Georgia, threatening us and Poland because of planned defense systems (against Iran missiles); and Barbora is the one who spoke about human rights in China, she is against totalirisms and is not feared to say it; it would be a normal race but because of the date and how the race went if you are Czech you simply have to see it this way).