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How is this guy competing for Albania? Are we supposed to be proud of this lol?

artan wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 12:32 am How is this guy competing for Albania? Are we supposed to be proud of this lol?

apparently Greece has done the same. Their Chechen/Dagestani Dauren Kurugliev won a medal for them too. All of these Russian citizens have been poached by other nations because Russia was banned.

Albania will take it no matter what. This is still a million times better than being in the world record books for never having won a medal in the Olympics. That was beyond embarrassing.

Serbia has some Chechens too I think.

But again, who cares? Albania trained the world's greatest weightlifter who took plenty of gold medals for Greece, and we had nothing to show for it.

I think the coaches were at least Albanian for these guys, but that's about as much part we had in their success lol.

I think it's embarrassing. Atleast with the national team it's the Diaspora players who are ethnically Albanian and have a clear link to Albania that achieves success for Albania. But this guy? No disrespect to him but there's no link. Might as well start poaching random asians for gymnastics, africans for sprinting, europeans for swimming, etc.

artan wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 3:27 am I think it's embarrassing. Atleast with the national team it's the Diaspora players who are ethnically Albanian and have a clear link to Albania that achieves success for Albania. But this guy? No disrespect to him but there's no link. Might as well start poaching random asians for gymnastics, africans for sprinting, europeans for swimming, etc.

Better no medal at all..

I have mixed feelings about this medal, it's good that Albania finaly gets medal on Olympic games but i would preferred albanian to win olympic medal.

Ky muhabet osht me shku n'darsem me karuc t'huj

Head of olympic committee said there are 37 Olympic medals attributed to people born and raised in Albania but who competed for other countries.

In this case, two wrongs do make a right. We've lost way more than we gained this way.

Aurora Bulkualis wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 6:40 am Head of olympic committee said there are 37 Olympic medals attributed to people born and raised in Albania but who competed for other countries.

In this case, two wrongs do make a right. We've lost way more than we gained this way.

really ? I can think of a few (those weightlifters who went to represent greece) but struggling to think of anyone else

It’s simple really, we gotta fund our athletes and success will come. Plenty of other nations with smaller populations have shown that. Ireland being one this olympics, even Kosovas Judo team shows good coaching and funding = success.

The problem is we just don’t have that kind of leadership and mentality as a nation. We’re more worried about Noizy going to jail and other nonsense.

Aurora Bulkualis wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 6:40 am Head of olympic committee said there are 37 Olympic medals attributed to people born and raised in Albania but who competed for other countries.

In this case, two wrongs do make a right. We've lost way more than we gained this way.

Lol, that number looks bullshit to me