MANILA, Philippines – Happening every four years, the Olympics is the most-awaited international sporting event. The best of the best athletes are sent by their home countries to vie for a spot on the podium. While not all fans can attend and watch the 2024 Paris Olympics live, sports enthusiasts are able to keep up with the latest developments online.
As athletes race to make their respective countries proud, another level of sportsmanship buds in the midst of the high-pressure event: an unofficial alliance between Brazilians and Filipinos. Whenever a contender from the two countries wins, the other is on the sidelines (or the X space) cheering them on, celebrating the victory as if it were their own. When the Philippines wins, Brazil does, too, and vice versa.
The fun is so widely acknowledged by both countries that netizens from each country crafted nicknames for each other: Filiprimos (Filipino-primos) and Brazinsans (brazil-pinsans) – both of which play on the word “cousin” in Portuguese and Filipino, respectively. Together, they’re Brazilippines. this whole cousin thing between brazil & philippines is probably one of the best to come out of this olympics.
we even got nicknames for each other— filiprimos (filipino-primos) & brazinsans (brazil-pinsans). GOTTA LOVE BRASILIPINAS 🇵🇭🇧🇷 pic.twitter.
com/on1cB0qVaR — ian 🇵🇸 (@whitmanike) August 5, 2024 It all started when Carlos Yulo won his first gold medal in artistic gymnastics. A Brazilian X u.