Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

siegecrossbow

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What treatment do you mean? I seem to recall seeing something that for the 2008 Olympics for example, Chinese medalists got an award of money or house or some other material rewards (depending on what medal). Is that still the case?

I know the HK gold medalist Vivian Kong will get $9 million HKD from the HK Jockey Club as reward for example.

The real reward will be ad sponsorship.
 

Randomuser

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66kg we're in the finals after beating Chinese Taipei. For the gold, we gotta fight Mr. I'm-a-woman-and-if-you-don't-like-that-you-can-suck-my-dick.

And now we are Silver for the 60kg, lost to Ireland, the defending Olympic champion on 4-1 split decision. We have never gotten a gold in women's boxing at the Olympics before. This is our 5th Silver.
More funding is needed in women's boxing. It's frustrating watching them reach the final stage but lacking the final bit to get gold. China potentially could have had a max of 5 gold from boxing which is unheard of and shatters another misconception on it.
 

Ringsword

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Ok.

I also think that the number of journalists from Sweden should be cut in half for the next Olympics - just to ensure that no other country dreams of using journalists as saboteurs.
Love this thread-thanks for much needed info and support.We are doing okay as some G/S/B are taken away in some "traditionally" strong areas like badminton. gymnastics and volleyball(I stayed up all night watching the powerful Cuban Merc-Turk Vargas tilt the otherwise close but definitely winnable match with China)-glad its my holiday week.These weakened areas all need a clinical reassessment and reset to regain dominance.However I'm absolutely delighted with the breakthroughs this olympic has provideed-swimming-Pan the hero!!-Qinwen ,road race ,BMXchampion and now wrestling and boxing and hopefully other medals in niche sports.Don't worry about the olympics being outmoded-it's the only game in town and if the Chinese come to FULLY dominate it in almost every area-the west/anglosphere will declare"no more olympics becuse it's antiquated.outdatedracist ,etc,etc" China can kill it by dominating it-like Pan in pool,diving.TT etc-Full Spectrum Dominance.Nothing else.BTW why are these otherwise silly just games important?China knows this this:Joe Blow doesn't know shit about geopolitics ,PLA massive developments etc BUT when some Chinese teenager phenom like Pan ZhanLe destroys them in the pool publicly and in glorious 4k color-these drunken,drug addled obese racist idiots WILL notice. LA 2028 will be a nightmare for Chinese athletes-guard up,armour up -spear/shield psychologically /physically.
 
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Heliox

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So according to Qin, they were woken up almost everyday at 6am for testing.

Before people get carried away with this ...

We generally have to be up about 4+ hours before our first match. There's always 2 warm up routines before the first match - a longer, mobilisation warm up to wake up the body about 3 hours out and then the actual pre-match warm up much closer to the game.

If our first match is at 8am, we have to be up at 4am anyways.

The issue of being up at 6am isn't an issue in itself. It's more an issue of how it actually disrupts your planned itinerary for the day.
- what time is your first match? If it's in the afternoon, then one has the luxury to sleep in, which makes a 6am wake up somewhat disruptive.
- where in your itinerary is the testing window? If it's when you are supposed to be doing warm ups/cool downs/treatment, then it is also quite disruptive.

The timing of 6am may seem bad to a layperson but it isn't always necessarily so. It's where in your routine the testing gets done that determines whether it's disruptive.
 
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