Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

[4Runner]

Fun fact - to borrow Chairman Mao's classification:

(1) The top 2 belong to the first world.

(2) The bottom 8 belong the second world.

(3) The rest outside this table belong to the third world.

 

[Quickie]

Didn't they get the bronze in Tokyo?

They did after the British team was disqualified for one of them testing positive for drug.

Su Bing Tian and Xie Zhen Ye were with the team then, both with 100m PB of less than 10 secs. This time only Xie came back with the team.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

High chance
2 in table tennis
2 in diving
1 in synchro swimming
2 in weightlifting

For diving, the men's 10m may be contested. Gold in the women's 3m is as good as guaranteed.

 

[azn_cyniq]

On a brighter note. Pakistan just won the men's javelin beating the Indian Olympic champion.

This just made my day...I'm so happy for Pakistan!!!

 

[Rafi]

This just made my day...I'm so happy for Pakistan!!!

An Olympic record no less, proud of the guy and to beat a jai hind in the process is the cherry on top, (even though he is decent chap by all accounts)

 

[antiterror13]

An Olympic record no less, proud of the guy and to beat a jai hind in the process is the cherry on top, (even though he is decent chap by all accounts)

Any particular reason why India always has very poor performance in any Olympic medal ? I am genuinely puzzled

 

[grulle]

got to give it to North Korea: they sent 16 athletes TOTAL and have 2 SILVER and 4 BRONZE to show for it. Happy for them.

 

[Ringsword]

Any particular reason why India always has very poor performance in any Olympic medal ? I am genuinely puzzled

So are they-"why China up there-they should be down here with us",very disorganized,very corrupt and ironically very entitled due to centuries of caste ,more then a little bit lazy.

 

[Flanker1949]

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Fun fact - to borrow Chairman Mao's classification:

(1) The top 2 belong to the first world.

(2) The bottom 8 belong the second world.

(3) The rest outside this table belong to the third world.

That's not how Chairman Mao classified the world.
In his theory, the Soviets and the US were the first worlds.
All other developed countries except the Soviets and the US were the 2nd world.
All developing nations are the 3rd world. So to that extend, we are still one of the 3rd world nations.

 

[Ringsword]

Most men (including Americans, besides the morbidly obese ones) ARE below 80kg. 100kg+ weight class lifters are visibly obese, and at the same time insanely muscular.
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Average men are gonna prefer having this bodyshape (and relate more to) this mediumweight guy than this Iranian heavyweight.
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Heavyweight lifters are basically like modern sumos. All credit to their dedication, but China doesn't dominate the category as extensively for a good reason, it's a path with a lot of bodily self sacrifice in a culture where people generally don't do such extreme stuff for sports.

Because they manipulated the number of events.

When I babysat my then little nephew he asked why bears(especially grizzly) are so fat and yet so strong and I said,"it's hard fat-big skeleton,lots&lots of muscle and covered in lots of fat" Lter he remarked while watching with me that some of these heavyweight weight lifters indeed look like the hard-fat bears.Yes I said,thankfully his uncle me looks like that pictured Chinese guy.Also kudos to the Chinese athletes achieving so much!!