The 2020 Olympic Games are officially over and the United States dominated the medal count, claiming both the most medals and the most gold medals.
The results aren’t sitting very well with Russia and China.
Russia is claiming that the United States and other countries of “rigging” the Olympics.
The Russian Olympic Committee, named so because of an alleged doping scandal by the nation of Russia, finished fifth in the medal count. Now, they are saying it was because the results were rigged:
Russian lawmaker Aleksei Zhuravlyov, according to The Daily Beast, described other competing countries at the Games as “a pack of Russophobic beasts, headed by the United States.”
On Monday, Olga Skabeeva, who is a television host of Russia’s stated-owned television channel, echoed those statements, saying on the air that the Summer Games were the “clearest example of total Russophobia.”
“These Olympic Games stink,” Skabeeva said. “Global sports forever ceased being an honest competition, turning into a cheap political farce. At the behest of Americans, the International Olympic Committee took away two gold medals from Russian.”
Skabeeva didn’t provide any evidence to support her claims, but that didn’t stop other from agreeing with the claims.
“Americans are freaks. Moral freaks. Why are we even discussing this parade of freaks and perverts?” deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy added, the Daily Beast reported.
Meanwhile, China was unhappy with finishing second in the medal count so they decided to include Hong Kong and Taiwan in their total to claim dominance over the Americans:
China’s state-owned media is embellishing the country’s Olympic medal count by including Hong Kong & Taiwan.
The official medal count:
USA – 39 Gold, 113 total
China – 38 Gold, 88 total pic.twitter.com/9EXHnyg85z— The First (@TheFirstonTV) August 11, 2021
Here are the actual medal totals:
The top in the medal table from the #TokyoOlympics! pic.twitter.com/aZieHc1Ftq
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) August 8, 2021
