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I respect.
According to the Cambridge dictionary: "Feel or show admiration for someone."
Novak Djokovic
has taken over the Olympic Village.
From Turkish volleyball players to Honduran judokas, everyone wants to chat and take a souvenir photo with the tennis player.
The Guardian
tells that the Serbian leaves his hotel every day to go to the Villa and make new friends.
Disappointment.
According to the RAE: "Regret caused by disappointment."
Like the one Dutch cyclist
Annemiek van Vleuten
had on Sunday
when she
looked
ecstatic crossing the finish line thinking she had won gold on the road.
Later they told her that the Austrian
Anna Kiesenhofer
had arrived before her.
Embarrassment
.
According to the Oxford dictionary: "Feeling of loss of dignity caused by a fault committed or by a humiliation or insult received".
That sentiment is what some Iranian newspapers put on their pages on Monday when taekwondo
Nahid Kiani
lost to the dissident of the Olympic refugee team,
Kimia Alizadeh
, who fled Iran fed up with the oppression of women in her native country.
Cyberstalking
.
According to Wikipedia: "Use of electronic media to persecute and harass an individual or group."
Wang Luyao
, a Chinese Olympic shooting athlete, received many insults from her compatriots on Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, on Monday after finishing last in the women's air rifle qualifier.
But Beijing's machine of vituperation, so accustomed to using its digital soldiers on Weibo to erase criticism of the regime, this time used its censorship powers to remove many of the comments attacking the athlete and sanction 33 powerless users. post on the social network for 180 days.
Rabia
.
According to the Collins dictionary: "Big anger".
Shouts of rage hit the Chilean taekwondo player
Fernanda Aguirre
when she had to withdraw from the competition on Saturday after testing positive for COVID.
She had been vaccinated since April.
Olympic dream frustrated.
Now he is passing the isolation that dictates protocol without leaving a hotel room.
"I couldn't stop crying when they told me. My dream was to compete. I spent years preparing for these Games. All my effort came to nothing in an instant," says Aguirre from his confinement.
Two South African men's U23 footballers were the first from the Olympic Village to test positive five days before the opening ceremony.
In total, in the entire environment surrounding the Games, among athletes, members of technical teams, competition referees, workers of the Japanese operation and journalists,
148 infections have already been detected
.
But do not think that the environment among the accredited is of concern.
Let them tell a British journalist that the other day, while smoking a cigar in the smoking room of the press center, he said that he is willing to "suck on Japanese railings" to show that the virus was a tall tale.
Even the Olympics have come the deniers.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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