Who is this everyone? I think the furthest anyone can say is that Chinese are not fast runners. The West basically deleted weight lifting to stop China from dominating.
The irony is that wrestling isn't very strength based compared to weight lifting.
Sport | US Gold difference of unfinished events vs Tokyo 2020 |
| Athletics | 4 |
| Basketball | 2 |
| Beach volleyball | 1 |
Canoe Sprint | 1 |
| Golf | 1 |
| Taekwondo | 1 |
| Track cycling | 1 |
| Volleyball | 1 |
| Water polo | 1 |
| Wrestling | 3 |
| Total | 16 |
Sport | Gain vs 2020 |
| Swimming | -3 |
| Shooting | -2 |
| 3x3 Basketball | -1 |
Fencing | 1 |
| Rowing | 1 |
| Road cycling | 1 |
| Artistic Gymnastics | 1 |
| Total | -2 |
Weightlifting China doesn't have anyone in the highest weight class.
Mildly, when the medals are equal. A Silver is never comparable to a gold.
People know who Jeremy Lin is. People know who Reggie Miller and Michael Jordan are.
People know who Mayweather and Pacquiao are too.
I knew Zou Shiming before I ever knew Zhang Zhilei. When Zou was famous in China for being a double Olympic champion, he was far more famous than Zhang. Now, Zou is retired and Zhang is in his prime so Zhang is more famous now.
1. What is the difference between silver and bronze? Gold stands out but those 2 are the same. I'd rather take bronze than silver just cus silver is a regret that is is not gold but bronze is a sly chuckle that it's not nothing.
We get what we deserve. Whatever; I want the gold. We Chinese want the gold, not to say we had 1 guy up in the podium in the heavy class.
Oh you know Gigachad LOL. You know, while the super heavies may be the strongest weightlifters, many people celebrate the heavy class more because lifters from the heavy class are still aesthetic and built while the super heavies like Lasha are fat. Most guys would happily trade 15% strength to look like Gigachad and not like Lasha.
US had 39, not 37 gold in Tokyo.
Yup they did, I meant if they performed on par for the remaining events, the US has underperformed by 2 medals compared to Tokyo for the events which have concluded already, they mainly lost medals in shooting (-2) and swimming (-3)
Rowing and cycling have loads of medals. They should target there. Boxing and wrestling also need more work.
He won a silver medal in 2008 when Zou won the gold in 2008 and 2012, so he was basically unknown compared to Zou. But Zou retired and Zhang began a professional boxing career and his success there leads him to be more known than Zou today.