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"I have to watch the NBA Finals, and they have World Champion on their heads. World champion of what?! Of the United States?!🤡"

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Congratulations Noah Lyles, on being the Olympic 100m champion, by one of the closest margins of victory ever!

And yes, he's right. Half of the NBA was mad when he said it. The other half of the NBA is non-US born! 🤣

But it's changing... the original US Dream Team faced 9 international NBA players on the way to Olympic gold. This team? ~60🤯

Hachyderm.iomekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)@fyrfli@diaspora.im @derpoltergeist@col.social Yup. Noah Lyles won the 200m at the world track and field championship, and then upset a bunch of people by pointing out that even though he loves the USA, and even though the NBA has many international players, the NBA championship team should not call themselves "World Champions." Because they're not world champions. They're US champions.🙂🙃 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gBuoUH3AOlo People got mad at him, and he was like "I said what I said."

@mekkaokereke Whenever baseball is mentioned to a non-American they just laugh at the term “World Series”.

@mez @mekkaokereke We're also not gonna pretend that the Super Bowl is for anyone who doesn't live in the USA either ... right?

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

@klausfiend @mez @mekkaokereke The baseball World Series is not just the USA. They include a few teams from Canada. So very slightly international.

@EricFielding @mez @mekkaokereke IIRC there is only one Canadian team left in MLB, and only one Canadian team has ever won a World Series (I watched it live in my friend's parents' rec room, just outside Toronto).

@klausfiend @EricFielding @mekkaokereke Was that the Blue Jays winning (in the 90s?) I remember being at a show or something with family and the MC would occasionally come out and give updates (which whooie, spoilers like that would not go down well these days I don’t think! 😅)