2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing
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Proof that India reached parity with the US in 2010
China
GOOOOOOOOOOLD!!!
Qi Huangpu
Men’s Aerials
GOOOOOOOOOOLD!!!
Qi Huangpu
Men’s Aerials
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I did NOT spell his name incorrectly. This damn keyboard auto-incorrected!
If you read this report, it almost feels like China's success at the Beijing Winter Olympics is due to scouted foreign athletes. In reality, Eileen Gu is the only foreign-born athlete that contributes two medals so far. But Eileen Gu is a very special case as we have discussed in this thread. She's been building connections with China for so many years. The other one, Zhu Yi, didn't win any medal, and women's figure skating is a traditional Chinese strength.
Pretty much all other naturalized athletes are with hockey team. And the motive is not as some small-minded westerner projected: “What China has tried to do is -- it has tried to fast track sporting success,” said Simon Chadwick, a professor of global sport at Emlyon Business School in France. “This is a way of preventing embarrassment, saving face, making sure that they do win medals.”
These days it'll not be a complete report about China if the reporters do not smear China one way or another, for real or imagined or cook-up reasons. So where does this "foreign-born athletes also navigate tide of rising nationalism" accusation come from? Of course, it's Zhu Yi, who else? We all know what really happened.
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has not quite finished yet, but it's already become quite clear that it'll be one of the most successful Winter Olympics--for China, for the competing international athletes, for the Olympics, and for the sports audience throughout the world. The clowns that "diplomatically boycott the Beijing Olympics" turn out to be the butt of the joke for the world to see. In the end, even the author for this report has to admit that the Beijing Olympic has paid off.
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Their analysis of China is so off-base. They have a 1980's highschool-level understand of China back in Cold War era. It's so outdated.
In fact, I like when Western pundits are so off-based, it just means it's easier to cruise right past them because they are so deluded and on another planet. So long as we have enough CATOBARs/5th gens/HGVs/Nukes to deter them from doing crazy shit against China, let them be drunk off ignorance, racist caricatures, and self-soothing characterizations of China. Rome and British empire didn't collapse because they were realists and objective, they collapsed because they were out-of-their-mind and out-of-touch with reality.
Watching the qualifications for Half Pipe right now. Unless Eileen Gu screws up really, really, really badly and breaks her leg or something I think another gold medal is pretty much guaranteed. She is way too far ahead of her peers.
yeah she is like way dominant, and on cruise mode.....
What Su Yiming was listening to on his 93 point run for Men's Big Air.
Good luck getting that out of your head
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Good luck getting that out of your head
.There are three Chinese and three US athletes that have qualified for tomorrow.