Olympics 2024 - discussion thread
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Even if China had won, we would still add Hong Kong and maybe Taiwan out of principle and also to make the Americans seethe even more.
In my ranting, I also realized just how little India matters know when it comes to this sort of stuff. Like we are talking how tough it is to overcome USA in being number 1 and then you just realize India is not even in the conversation because they have no gold. They have the same number of medals won as swimmer Zhang Yufei who is already passed her prime. Pathetic. India gets far too much attention for it's weak performance than it deserves.
That's how you know who actually matters and who doesn't when you look at the thinnest of margins.
That's how you know who actually matters and who doesn't when you look at the thinnest of margins.
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If France can pull this off, then all is forgiven for the opening ceremony
I don't know, maybe that is going too far?
Okay, may we could have a solution here, we and pretend we neither understand English or French, and that blue guy was Macron's brother in law, so all is well.
Okay, I do not really follow the Olympics athletes too much or the games, because it is every four years. By next week will almost forget everything.
Do not remember the last time at the end of the games when the gold medal count was tied.
Kind of historic what we saw here in Paris.
Very good.
Do not remember the last time at the end of the games when the gold medal count was tied.
Kind of historic what we saw here in Paris.
Very good.
Since France failed to step up when it really mattered, any talk of forgiving them for this crap is now out of the question.I don't know, maybe that is going too far?
Okay, may we could have a solution here, we and pretend we neither understand English or French, and that blue guy was Macron's brother in law, so all is well.
USA was expecting easy golds in men's wrestling because no Russians. And they got 0 (zero) in the end. Turns out Russians can just represent other countries. And Japan stole the others.
Also no golds in boxings either.
Speaking of which, I dunno how true that Algeria boxer is actually a man. But if it is true, I see no reason why China shouldn't work on getting that gold stripped in circumstances like this. Absolutely ridiculous to be behind the US because of something like this. I didn't pay much attention before coz I didn't expect that it would actually affect China in the end which it did. No need to be nice here.
Lethe
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An ad-hoc CAS committee, presumably set up to deal with issues emerging from the Olympics in a relatively timely manner, that Team USA's appeal to the judges re: Jordan Chiles' score came four seconds past the one-minute threshold for such appeals and therefore should not have been entertained. Notably, there was no comment on the merits of the appeal or the revised score.
I have sympathy for both athletes, who through no fault of their own have been put through an emotional rollercoaster.
For those looking to add fuel to this fire, here's an angle that the American media doesn't appear to have picked up on yet: of the three CAS arbitrators who ruled against Team USA in this case, one is associated with Iran and another with China. Ominous music intensifies!
Mate, please take a deep breath, it's not that serious. Can't we just be happy that China did pretty well in terms of medals for only sending less athletes than even Australia?
Yeah the testing of swimmers was disruptive and unfair and despite that they still did good by bringing home multiple gold. There's no need to get jaded for what basically just amounts to a chest thumping contest every 4 years.
I mean it was serious enough that not just the US but also it's western dogs basically coordinated a slander and disruption campaign against Chinese Swimmers. Luckily someone like Pan still prevailed.
This chest thumping contest has quite a lot of implications.
Now that said, I did originally say I was concerned China was choking earlier and would have a 2016 level performance. Instead China got 40 gold medals and tied with the US with multiple breakthroughs. The frustration is just missing the small margins to make this victory truly complete when the opportunity is there and force the US to face it.
But eventually after sleeping over it, Ill probably realize what the most important things are here.