I was scrolling through my phone at 3 AM in my tiny Berlin apartment when the notification popped up – Lin Xiaojun had just pulled off what everyone was calling a ‘textbook overtaking’ move. My heart immediately started racing, partly from excitement, partly from the three cups of coffee I’d chugged to stay awake for this match.
The video started buffering. Of course it did. That spinning wheel of death has become the unofficial mascot of every overseas Chinese trying to watch sports from home. When it finally loaded, I saw it – that beautiful moment in the short track speed skating World Cup 5000m relay semifinals where Lin sliced through the competition like butter.
You know that feeling when you see something so perfectly executed it gives you goosebumps? That was Lin’s move. He didn’t just pass the other skaters – he danced around them. Zhang Baihao had already pushed us to second place, but Lin? Lin made it look like art.
Then Sun Long got overtaken and my stomach dropped – but wait, he fought back immediately! The guy has reflexes that would make a cat jealous. He reclaimed first place so fast I almost missed it because my stream decided to pixelate at the worst possible moment.
Here’s the thing they don’t tell you about watching sports from overseas – every lag, every buffer, every ‘this content is not available in your region’ message feels personal. When the notification finally came that China got penalized and wouldn’t advance, I wasn’t just disappointed about the result. I was frustrated that I couldn’t even watch the decisive moment properly.
My German roommate poked his head in around lap 10 asking why I was shouting at my laptop. ‘Sports,’ I mumbled, like that explained everything. It didn’t capture the ache of watching your country compete from thousands of miles away, through a connection that stutters more than my attempts to speak German after two beers.
But here’s what matters – despite the penalty, despite the technical difficulties, I saw enough to know: these skaters have fire in them. That sequence of three perfect overtakes in 14 laps? That’s the kind of thing you show kids when teaching them how determination looks in motion.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to figure out how to properly watch the highlights without the video freezing every ten seconds. Anyone else struggling with this from abroad? Share your sports-watching horror stories below – maybe we can help each other out!
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