Olympics 2024 - discussion thread
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That was a close fight.
However this is China's bread and butter. To really prevail, gold needs to be won at swimming to take the fight to the enemy.
yeah team and individual all around are probably regarded as two biggest in gymnastics for different reasons. Team competition is to prove which country has the best overall strength in depth and all around competition determines who is the best gymnast.
yesterday‘s event is heartbreaking not only cuz grabbing that gold pretty much done and dusted, even cctv commentator was busting out the champagne near the end. But also afew of senior members like Xiao Ruoteng, Liu Yang and Zhou Jingyuan missed out on team gold in Tokyo, this was their best chance i reckon, next Olympics they are going to be too old. Anyway, that’s over, sun rises, hopefully these guys can concentrate on their remaining individual competition.
yeah he got a lot of flak on Weibo yesterday, but netizens ire are turning to the coaching staff now. the result was not completely unexpected before the event started as Japan has a good team, although China retained an edge. China have two really good all rounders in Zhang Boheng and Xiao Ruoteng. Japan only has one. The other guy who is arguably best ever retired after Tokyo. And China two all time greats in parallel bars Zuo and in rings, Liu. People were expecting a close battle but the way it ended was probably not expected. Three points in the lead is massive in gymnastics going to last rotation. It would take a monumental cock up to lose that lead. Unfortunately it happened for China, feel bad for that back up guy. He obviously didn’t want to screwup so bad but nerves got the hold of him.
sweet. The journey was much tougher than expected. People thought the world No 1 pair would just sweep into the finals easily and win by huge margin. Goes to show in olympics nothing is given. The historical dominance of China in table tennis and diving is incredible.
interesting fact about the North Korean team. They are not well known in the international circuit. They have dubbed team of mystery Lol. Which was proven true when they dump the world No.2 Japanese pair and went all the way to the final
China lucked out in this one. Japan gave them problems last Olympics so good thing they didn't have to deal with Japan this time.
Qi of China wins silver in trap (shooting). I think it’s first time China or any Asian medaled in the Olympics men event. My bad, japan got silver in 92.
The Brit who got gold was crazy ! He only missed like twice after 50 shots. I mean he is the world record holder but I wonder if you can take like beta blockers or something to slow your heart rate down and perform to the max.
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Qinwen zheng came back from a match point against the Americans to win and she advanced to the last 8
Why can't Americans shoot properly? Don't they love guns?
