Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

[plawolf]

There's actually a relatively easy move around eSports that China could be making, which would benefit most of East Asia - especially South Korea and China. Considering the Koreans have been down on their luck in the Olympics relative to historical rival Japan, it should be easy to bring them on board. Then you have all the Southeast Asian countries as well as the Middle East and increasingly South America that are interested in eSports.

The problem is two-fold. First, an international federation has to be formed to govern eSports. That's not hard to do. The more difficult is the political problem around "violence" that the IOC has used to block eSports in the past. Honestly, this is just a matter of influence - there's more violent behavior around physical sports than there is around eSports, so if a strong enough group of countries wanted to push it in, it can easily get in.

There's also already a precedent in the Asian Games, which could be used to pressure the IOC.

Boxing is infinitely more violent than video games. Last I checked no one has died as a direct result of being beaten too hard in video games, but plenty of boxes have died throughout boxing history.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

France shot a 2-pointer instead of a 3 and lost 66-67

French chokers. Useless.

China did the same in the OT loss to Spain, the ending to that game was very perplexing.

 

[grulle]

Another bit of good news came out of this Olympics: China has surpassed Great Britain on the Summer Olympics All Time medal table. China is third after the USA and USSR. China went from last place to third in only 40 years, surpassing 99% of Western nations who have participated for 128 years.

 

[4Runner]

Paris 2024 Olympics has officially opened era of the Post-2000-Generation (零零后). They are taller, stronger and more confident than the generations before them. They are going to dominate every walk of our life in coming decades.

 

[Ringsword]

Paris 2024 Olympics has officially opened era of the Post-2000-Generation (零零后). They are taller, stronger and more confident than the generations before them. They are going to dominate every walk of our life in coming decades.

Happy but not satisfied-Can't really complain about the final tally as we ended with a tie in golds and we sat on top of the medals table for along time and the final tally showed our increased/increasing comprehensive power.However the taller.stronger,more confident determined Chinese generation is deeply heartening.I thought that the USA would run away with the gold medal count-60 +-compared to China's Rio count--26.I also say with the greatest respect and even affection that the womens' gymnastic team/womens' need some reexamination /rebuild.

 

[AndrewS]

If we take into account that most American athletes are affected by ADHD, Asthma, covid, POTS, etc... They would be participants in the Paralympic Games without the therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) that allows American athletes to take drugs and medications that affect physical performance...

An example of overcoming the "fastest man in the world" who with covid-19 managed to run faster than his opponents, when doctors say that the disease affects the respiratory system, or how his water sports athletes with asthma win even when their skins are purple from physical exertion...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1820994411863687481

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1819471217046573181

If it turns out that American athletes are in such poor health as to compete without drugs... They would have to go to the Paralympics, but thanks to authorized drugs and doping, they compete with healthy athletes.

Where do the 90% and 25% figures come from?

 

[4Runner]

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This article counts 2 golds from HK as China, with total of 42 golds

 

[GiantPanda]

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.

You are trying too hard to make the case that China somehow "lost" after winning 40 golds and being tied at the top of the heap.

It is a major win. China never won 40 before outside China itself and this was in Europe. One better than in Tokyo.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Happy but not satisfied-Can't really complain about the final tally as we ended with a tie in golds and we sat on top of the medals table for along time and the final tally showed our increased/increasing comprehensive power.However the taller.stronger,more confident determined Chinese generation is deeply heartening.I thought that the USA would run away with the gold medal count-60 +-compared to China's Rio count--26.I also say with the greatest respect and even affection that the womens' gymnastic team/womens' need some reexamination /rebuild.

I just hope the Gen Z Chinese are not self hating like their brethren across the Yellow Sea, or some of the older generation Chinese people.

 

[Feima]

An ad-hoc CAS committee, presumably set up to deal with issues emerging from the Olympics in a relatively timely manner,

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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!

The timepiece is made in China too.