In some countries he got much more hate, I'd say...and people couldn't understand how someone can give him a chance to participate in Olympics. Seems like only in Western countries media no one did really pay attention to him.
He got a reasonable amount of attention in the Western Media, once the beach Volleyball started (and some beforehand, but in the back oages, not front).
Of course there's no argument about it. But I don't see a lot of arguments whether such a person can actually participate in big events like Olympics...for me it was a shock to be honest. When the Olympics just started, I read an article in my native language about it (and there were tons of comments from shocked and irritated people under this article), but first of all I thought that media strongly exaggerated everything to show "a bad Western world" (and I was very sarcastic about it). Then I found an info in other sources and understood that the media were rather soft and didn't give all the details (like about his prison sentence for such a crime,how many time did he actually spent in a prison,also he admitted he did it three times and not only once etc). And I was looking also at Western media: they were surprisingly pretty quiet for such a shocking story. That also seems weird for me..
I think that was pretty much the universal opinion within about 5 minutes* of anyone learning about it.
Isn't bringing the sport into disrepute usually a fairly broad interpretation?
When they are 200+k from the finish and on flat ground no one cares if they get a bit of a free ride. The Italian was a bit excessive though.
Is this non-consensual or are you kink shaming?
Closest thing a human gets to actually flying
