I shouldn't laugh but…
Italy's Olympic bigwig Giovanni Malago said he wanted to file an official complaint with organizers that Hong Kong's nail-biting fencing win against Italy was unfair.
Why? Because the referees were from South Korea and Taiwan, he thundered. He indicated that he believed that since those two places were neighbors of China, they would be biased towards China! Obviously!
Oops.
Er. Actually, Giovanni…
Someone needs to quietly explain to him that Taiwan is a "giant weapons depot" (so said the New York Times) for the US to use against Chinese people, and plans are far advanced for South Korea to become another one, filled with nukes, no less.
So not exactly supporters of Mainland China, then.
Pizza Hut in Hong Kong is offering free extra pineapple chunks in a humorous reference to the Italy-Hong Kong showdown in the Olympic fencing finals -- narrowly won by Hong Kong.
Conventional wisdom says that Italians are horrified by pizza served with pineapple. Wars have been started for less!
The Olympics top ten list is ALWAYS a list of countries, but one city has crept on to that list, ahead of almost 200 nations, one glorious day, just after the games opened.
Memories of media trickery:
I'm not going to get into the US trick of re-jigging Olympic results to change who is number one medal winner, but it's nice to have statistics confirm that our tiny, underdog city looks like it is number one on a per head basis, at least for this moment.
Lai See(利是)
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