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manqiangrexue said:
Well, firstly, to make athletic talent visible, all kids need to be more balanced towards sports than specialized into academics. That reduces the academic momentum of the country. Secondly, those two talent pools do indeed overlap. Nothing says you need to be stupid to have good muscles. There are people with average or even slightly below average intellect and fantastic athletic talent but would prefer to spec into a normal office job rather than take the risk of being a professional athlete. That is a cultural and risk management decision.

Lastly, not as a reply to what you wrote but as an addendum to what I wrote:

Take America's Medals Away.
While Chinese athletes might not always overlap in talent with their American counterparts, plenty of poor countries do. Specifically, in running, Kenyans and Ethiopians are excellent at the marathon and Jamaicans, Bahamans, etc... are excellent at the dash. The problem is that these countries are often without the funds for proper talent recruitment and training, lacking training sites, equipment, and advanced sport science knowledge. China has all 3. China should invest in building "Friendship Arenas" in these countries with scholarships for the local talented where Chinese sport scientists go to help train them with what we know to give them a further boost to winning their running races. We can even send Chinese athletes to train with them to see if there is anything we can learn. These gold medals won't belong to China, but making the US lose them is just as good. We've already seen from this Olympics that without a rush of running medals, it takes a lot of luck for the US to compete with China in gold medals.
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If China had been able to send a full compliment of competitors to the weight lifting, could she have scored more medals.
 
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B.I.B. said:
If China had been able to send a full compliment of competitors to the weight lifting, could she have scored more medals.
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Or China could have 7 gold medals less because they removed weightlifting due to all the doping and the straight refusal of the International Weightlifting Committee to change. Wouldn't be unreasonable to do so and it's going in that direction. Not China's fault, but if the sport is rotten, it will be removed.

Or they could have added powerlifting too and the US and Europe would have a bunch of extra golds too. I don't like to complain; I just like to think how to win.
 
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KYli said:
Not all 14 gold medals but China could win 11-12 gold medals.
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At the very maximum 11 because the men's 109+ and 109- we can't win and the women's 59- we can't win. Then, there are several athletes that I'm not sure if they are too injured to win or just somewhat injured and less dominant than the ones who were sent. So Tian Tao (had surgery but rumored to be mostly recovered), Zhang Wangli (not sure), Deng Wei (injured), we don't know what form they are in. Then Liao Qiuyun got upset by the Filipina. So, we're not that far off. I'd say probably more like 8-9 instead of the 7 we got.
 
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manqiangrexue said:
At the very maximum 11 because the men's 109+ and 109- we can't win and the women's 59- we can't win. Then, there are several athletes that I'm not sure if they are too injured to win or just somewhat injured and less dominant than the ones who were sent. So Tian Tao (had surgery but rumored to be mostly recovered), Zhang Wangli (not sure), Deng Wei (injured), we don't know what form they are in. Then Liao Qiuyun got upset by the Filipina. So, we're not that far off. I'd say probably more like 8-9 instead of the 7 we got.
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If China can compete in all 14 categories, then the Chinese weightlifting team would invest in all 14 events more heavily. More golds equal more resources, more money. more potential and more talents. So no, I would say China is definitely going to win more than 11 gold medals if it were allowed to compete in all of them.
 
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US wins in cycling

Wtf was the noob Japanese doing? The american fell and wasn't even in contention for anymore points but the Japanese couldn't get a single point and then fell before the last sprint

Only chance for China tally lead now is for US to lose all 3 remaining events and China to win boxing
 
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