Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

sndef888

Captain
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Aside from gymnastics, it’s been a pretty good day.

Zheng Qinwen came from a set down to beat German player Kerber who will retire after this, she had a great career

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China mixed doubles also advanced to semi finals. A medal in tennis would be historic. They beat the seeded number 2 Aus pair.

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the 200m butterfly in womens, the mixed medley relay, men’s medley relay are best chances left I think.

minor chance only for 200m breaststroke for women’s
Is Pan taking part in mixed and mens medley? What about Qin Haiyang?
 

sndef888

Captain
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I don't speak mandarin, but people are posting that Pan felt discriminated against or hostility from the copers. Maybe someone can translate the video interview

This has been the case for years. Remember the Sun Yang incident?

The Americans and Australians have been EXTREMELY salty that the sport they used to harvest inflated numbers of medals every year is getting "infiltrated" by lowly asians

That's the reason for all this hostility and fake doping claims
 

coolgod

Colonel
Registered Member
It not the west that not trying to sabotage China but only America Europeans are not making a big deal but American politicians are about the chinese swimmers.
That's not true, apparently German media have been calling Chinese swimmers cheaters for a while now.

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lots of Europeans on twitter and reddit bitching about Chinese super doping also.
 

siegecrossbow

General
Staff member
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That's not true, apparently German media have been calling Chinese swimmers cheaters for a while now.

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lots of Europeans on twitter and reddit bitching about Chinese super doping also.

If their politicians keep being so incompetent then they will change masters pretty soon and be grinding XJP thoughts instead of whatever hip doctrine being proselytized now.
 

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
That's not true, apparently German media have been calling Chinese swimmers cheaters for a while now.

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lots of Europeans on twitter and reddit bitching about Chinese super doping also.
Looking at the rerun, I see now that after Pan's victory, Chalmers and the German (as well as the Romanian and likely more) came to pay respect to him in the pool. Just comes to show once again, there is no soft power, only the radiating effects of hard power.
 

PandaAI

Junior Member
Registered Member
That's not true, apparently German media have been calling Chinese swimmers cheaters for a while now.

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lots of Europeans on twitter and reddit bitching about Chinese super doping also.

They can bitch, complain and cope all they want, China’s rise is unstoppable. China will beat the respect into them through victory after victory. This gold has shocked and rattled the West more than any other gold. 100 freestyle is the most competitive event because so many people can do the 100 freestyle which means the depth of talent is huge. To win Olympic gold with a world record in the final is monumental. Chinese man is the fastest swimmer on the planet!
 

CMP

Senior Member
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Looking at the rerun, I see now that after Pan's victory, Chalmers and the German (as well as the Romanian and likely more) came to pay respect to him in the pool. Just comes to show once again, there is no soft power, only the radiating effects of hard power.
Yup. There are only winners and losers. People will suck up to or curry favor with winners and ignore, bully, or look down on losers. "Soft power" is just a bullshit term that describes this social effect. Soft power is just the shadow that is being cast by a dominant amount of hard power. People who confuse these two things will never have either.
 
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