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Honestly it can go both ways.
When Chloe Kim won gold, I remember hearing Americans say "she's not really American though, she's Korean". Meanwhile Michael Phelps is the face of a true "American".
At the end of the day, everyone is full of shit, we all carry racial dogmas, and only cheer for you when you're winning or have the image of being "like you".
Guess what, the France national soccer team are a bunch of Africans, when they win, they're beloved, when they don't, they're a bunch of black immigrant bastards trying to flood the country, and change the "French Heritage".
We're all fucking hypocrites, and money talks at the end of the day. We are all disposable at the end of the day.
The Olympics or any of these nationalistic events haven't been about the country for a long time now, it's about the athletes.
It's the same reason I never cheer for a given "team", an athlete will leave a team anytime if the money is right, a team can "relocate" to a new city based on economics, happens all the time. There is no affinity to that city of team, they don't care about any allegiance to you.
I cheer for the athletes that I like, in any given sport, at the end of the day, that's all it's really about.
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