Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

[SanWenYu]

At least they’d be able to get gold [sweep all the medals] in the triathlon event [in the Ganges].

Fixed it for you.

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1823001301430530359

Poor Koreans and Japanese, they thought they were HUWHITE, they're not even good enough to be included on that poster littered with U.S. athletes and a hip-hop icon.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1822995015490007485

 

[siegecrossbow]

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1823001301430530359

Poor Koreans and Japanese, they thought they were HUWHITE, they're not even good enough to be included on that poster littered with U.S. athletes and a hip-hop icon.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1822995015490007485

Looks like their inability to mentally calculate eye slant angles came at the expense of Korean and Japanese medalists.

 

[Ringsword]

Looks like their inability to mentally calculate eye slant angles came at the expense of Korean and Japanese medalists.

Why are you even surprised????-but they're seething now,believe me BTW I want the exclusive rights to sell Pepto-Bismo,Kaopectate and Imodium(iMODIum) in case New Delhi EVER -I hope NEVER in this universe-gets the OG's-I'LL be richer then Elon Musk,

 

[Ringsword]

Looks like their inability to mentally calculate eye slant angles came at the expense of Korean and Japanese medalists.

Oh,yes the Amerika+4 Eyes will fight China till the last Korean/Japanese-

 

[manqiangrexue]

I think the olympics by now is more than just a little sporting event.

It's a huge sporting event; it's the ultimate sporting event. But it's still only a sporting event.

Why tell all the media to throw shade on Chinese swim team if this is not part of the wider test between US/China.

1. That's not suggestive of anything; US media throws shade on China for literally everything. Why would sporting events be excluded? They hate having their gold medals taken away even if they don't mean anything to national power. They like to brag about winning.

2. It is indeed a wider test of the political power dynamic between the countries however, it is a test that reveals things about the power dynamic; it is not an event that changes the power dynamic. Only the latter is something that should be fought for with no boundaries or rules.

I'm not projecting any morals. I don't view the contest between US and China from a morally relevant perspective.

I'm just gonna assume we all steal because the US stole; if you could steal with a low chance of getting caught, wouldn't you steal too?

That's all I need to know about your morals.

 

[daifo]

Collection of Gold winners

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1822811463268041139

 

[manqiangrexue]

Trivia; I was looking at China's historic performance at the Olympics. We originally finished London with 38 gold but now we have 39. Which event did we get elevated to gold, presumably because someone else doped out?

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Edit: Found it. It was the women's 20km walk, which became a China podium sweep after Elena Lashmanova, Olga Kaniskina and Anisya Kirdyapkina, all of Russia, lost their medals for doping. We were originally just 1 bronze.

 

[pbd456]

Trivia; I was looking at China's historic performance at the Olympics. We originally finished London with 38 gold but now we have 39. Which event did we get elevated to gold, presumably because someone else doped out?

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Edit: Found it. It was the women's 20km walk, which became a China podium sweep after Elena Lashmanova of Russia lost her gold for doping.

I think it was a field event, bronze to silver and then to gold.

 

[Flanker1949]

I'm increasingly convinced that achieving victory over the US at the Olympics is less of a sporting endeavor than an endeavor in national power and international politics. China wins 5/6 weightlifting golds? Cancel weightlifting. Chinese women win 3/6 boxing golds? Cancel boxing. Oh, you spent $50 million and 10 years hiring European champion coaches to train a team that can sweep the fencing golds? That's the last time fencing will be at the Olympics. It will be replaced with Redneck Twig Fighting, the official rules to be announced by the American Redneck Twig Fighting Federation a generous 3 hours before the start of the first match. US needs more medals? Add 250m, 350m, 500m running, 3 man team relay, 5 man team, etc...

And this isn't even America's final form (Frieza reference). America can't take China's gold medals, but it can sure as hell take those of Australia/UK/France, etc... Crony phone call is all that's needed: "This is bigger than you. Nobody cares if you win 18 or 15 or 12 or 9 golds; even your own people don't care. Who are you competing against? This is East vs West; we need you to throw those events to the US so we can beat China. Don't care if you need to make your athlete choke or if you wanna just transfer him to us under US citizenship. If you don't like that, I have a list of sanctions and property seizures for you to chew on and if you're still playing boy scout, don't be too surprised when your athletes and family members turn up dead in accidents. Think about it."

The key to beating America isn't making Asian people run faster than black people. The key to beating America is becoming more powerful so China can assert more influence in the world and the IOC so that it can determine the sports to be contested and prevent US blackmail, ensuring that American doping positives are always punished to the maximum degree. If everyone on the US team who has a positive or a false medical exemption were removed, their Olympic team would look like they came from a small Eurpean country of 80K people LOL. I have a feeling that American sports is just a Wizard of Oz image.

Do you remember how ameicans pressured the olympic community to change the rule of Ping-Pong ball to make it harder for the Chinese team?