Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

[manqiangrexue]

I'm ranting hard now in an emotional state. While I was pessimistic I still was hoping I would be entirely wrong and China would win to shut those Americans up. What's really painful is while there were breakthroughs, this ultimately followed the same pattern as Tokyo where USA just marginally won out in the end. Feels like no truly signficiant lessons learnt from last time. It hurts because it was so close yet it didn't happen. This is exactly why 10000 silvers will never be equal to one gold. Forget about 2028, we will have to wait until 2032 to have a real chance of finally getting number 1.

If you truly believed that 10K silvers will never be equal to 1 gold, you wouldn't be bitching about tying at 40, would you? I believe it; that's why I'm totally fine with the score. I know the US is feeling the pain because this is the first time any nation tied them on gold without home advantage and they did everything they could, legal and illegal to prevent it.

Please don't do this. This was literally done in Tokyo and this gave ammo for westoid media to mock China. They even thought China officially changed the medal chart to cope hard. The Chinese Olympic committee sent out almost 400 guys. We should respect what they achieved alone instead needing to add ones from others. Japan is a vassal state of the US, so technically nothing to stop them adding on medals

No dude, you don't do this. Every medal lost you bitch and moan like it's some national tragedy that you were let down. A week ago, you were worried about ending up third with under 30 medals. 4 days ago, you said you'd be happy if we didn't lose to the US by more than 10 golds. Today it's tied at 40 and you're still "emotionally ranting" that we came up "short." If we had 41, you'd be bitching we lost the total medal count and if we won that, you'd cry we didn't win the per capita medal contest.

Fact is China wouldn't need to do this if we had won. Just accept China came up short.

We need to do that because it's the right thing to do and 40-40 isn't coming up short, especially with all the cheating the US had to do. China's national anthem filled the room more than any other anthem because Hong Kong's victories are followed by it as well.

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.

That's a Western solution. China doesn't roll like that; we take the high road. We agreed to compete so we accept the results. If you did this, regardless of whether you were successful, Algerians will hate China for it. Right now, they love us for Liu Yang's warm smile and embrace of thier questionable athlete; they see how much better we are than the West and how accepting and big our hearts are. If you file this complaint, you harm international relations for a medal. And you will probably fail because Algeria will successfully argue that if the IOC wanted to DQ Imane for gender, the time would have been before the start of the Olympics, not after he won a gold medal.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Why do you guys get so worked up about medals is funny. Does that actually alleviate poverty if you win more medals? No. Does it help increase the technological prowess? Nope. Does it make the military more potent? Nope. Winning medals is the result, not cause of greater geopolitical influence. Better not put the chicken before the egg here.

 

[Randomuser]

If you truly believed that 10K silvers will never be equal to 1 gold, you wouldn't be bitching about tying at 40, would you? I believe it; that's why I'm totally fine with the score. I know the US is feeling the pain because this is the first time any nation tied them on gold without home advantage and they did everything they could, legal and illegal to prevent it.

No dude, you don't do this. Every medal lost you bitch and moan like it's some national tragedy that you were let down. A week ago, you were worried about ending up third with under 30 medals. 4 days ago, you said you'd be happy if we didn't lose to the US by more than 10 golds. Today it's tied at 40 and you're still "emotionally ranting" that we came up "short." If we had 41, you'd be bitching we lost the total medal count and if we won that, you'd cry we didn't win the per capita medal contest.

We need to do that because it's the right thing to do and 40-40 isn't coming up short, especially with all the cheating the US had to do.

That's a Western solution. China doesn't roll like that; we take the high road. We agreed to compete so we accept the results. If you did this, regardless of whether you were successful, Algerians will hate China for it. Right now, they love us for Liu Yang's warm smile and embrace of thier questionable athlete; they see how much better we are than the West and how accepting and big our hearts are. If you file this complaint, you harm international relations for a medal. And you will probably fail because Algeria will successfully argue that if the IOC wanted to DQ Imane for gender, the time would have been before the start of the Olympics, not after he won a gold medal.

No if China got 41 gold it would end there because China won. Thats how the Olympics rank it and that's the method that has been officially abided by. That is what actually matters.

 

[4Runner]

Why do you guys get so worked up about medals is funny. Does that actually alleviate poverty if you win more medals? No. Does it help increase the technological prowess? Nope. Does it make the military more potent? Nope. Winning medals is the result, not cause of greater geopolitical influence. Better not put the chicken before the egg here.

I am totally with you on this subject. People of my generation lived through 1981 World Volleyball Cup, 1982 World Volleyball Tournament and 1984 LA Olympics. After 2008 Beijing Olympics, China has firmly established as tier-one sports power.

Winning 40 gold medals at Paris Olympics is a big pleasant surprise to me. I am happy ...

 

[Xiongmao]

I just watched the first few minutes of the final BBC broadcast covering the closing ceremony. They started out with a 3 minute montage comprising of highlights from the events, and I did not see one highlight involving a Chinese athlete. It is absolutely disgusting that the second place country is not even given one second of air-time. This basically just points out to me that it doesn't matter how many golds China gets, it will never be shown on Western mainstream media.

 

[tamsen_ikard]

I am 100% certain US will lose atleast 1 gold due to doping scandal, maybe ever more. The final tally will put China on top.

 

[siegecrossbow]

The real mvp.

 

[Randomuser]

I am 100% certain US will lose atleast 1 gold due to doping scandal, maybe ever more. The final tally will put China on top.

I mean the whole reason the 4x100 relay team in Tokyo has Bronze is because the UK one got stripped for doping. Extra ironic coz the British team kept saying the Italians doped. Pure projection. So anything is possible I guess.

Probably a far more ideal scenario than complaining against Algeria.

 

[Rafi]

It is clear to me, more than ever that China is a peer competitor and also gradually eclipsing the US as a global power, you Chinese should be proud, in every field, economic, military, technological, space and now sports.

I think it’s because you are so passionate it is some how missing the nuances, that a foreigner can see.

 

[Xiongmao]

I am 100% certain US will lose atleast 1 gold due to doping scandal, maybe ever more. The final tally will put China on top.

Would any of this year's competitors fall under the doping scandal? The only information I can find talks about 3, presumably already retired, athletes who were allowed to dope on the condition they would act as informants.