is it this expected? is China good at this event? this is absolutely AMAZING!!!
Olympics 2024 - discussion thread
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Truly Moregardh isn’t the useless player people are making him out to be. He is very talented and unpredictable. His rankings does not really reflect his true ability, he can be erratic but no doubt of his talent. the male Swedes do have a glorious tradition in TT.
All in all though Wang chuqin should have won, he made a lot of errors but at least he is man enough to dismiss the racquet excuse. Olympics is highest level in table tennis. It’s cut throat competition. Sometimes there are crazy upsets. I reckon we will see one in badminton and tennis too.
Never been his strong event. Xu will be in a lot of relays as he is the only world class backstroker China have. Needs to save energy.
nice. Dun know anything about this sports, didn’t even know China is a gold contender.
Just checked, she beat US and Aus to the gold lol. Wished I watched it live on Aus tv. the tears and hate from usually biased Aussie tv commentators will be so enjoyable.
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I think it's actually for China to get gold at newer events than older ones. Newer events, no one has really built up the infrastructure so there's not much to catch up on.
It's why China has a UFC champ while the rest of traditional Asia doesn't.
Congrats to Deng Yawen. When I saw her did that back flip with no hands, I knew she was gonna win. I also thought Sun Jiaqi had the best moves, but she was a bit too reckless. If she had stick the landing, China would have won both gold and silver.
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The assertion is that Beta-2 agonists and corticosteroids do not enhance performance for non-asthmatic persons, so it doesn't actually matter whether someone "fakes" a spirometry test or not (how easy that is to do in a convincing manner I could not say). To judge the strength of that assertion would require extensive research but, in addition to the studies linked in the article, a cursory search turns up more recent studies that reach the same conclusion, such as 2021 meta-analysis.
Intuitively this would seem to make sense. Beta-2 agonists cause the smooth muscles lining the airways, which in persons with asthma are prone to constriction in response to various stimuli, to relax, returning to (or closer to) their baseline state of relaxation. For persons without asthma, whose airways are not prone to this constriction in the first place, there would appear to be no benefit.
This seems to be a multi-headed monster:
1. Persons with asthma are encouraged to become swimmers.
2. Swimmers are prone to developing asthma in proportion to the intensity of their training.
3. That WADA regulates the use of Beta-2 agonists as potentially performance-enhancing substances creates a perverse incentive for non-asthmatic swimmers to seek therapeutic exemptions for such in the belief that such substances may improve performance.
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Legalised cheating.
This is what the West is best at. Working with USADA to find loopholes for their own athletes and covering it up with their media while attacking other countries with fake doping claims
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