Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

[Dolcevita]

First Gold Medal goes to Huang Yuting (17yo) and Sheng Lihao (19yo) of China for 10m air rifle mixed team.

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Finals start at 33 minute

 

[Shaolian]

2nd Gold!

Women 3m syncro diving

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[henrik]

It will. I don't expect them to get as many medals this year.

The olympics this year and 2028 are highly rigged toward western countries.

IOC cut many Chinese dominated events like weightlifting while increasing western "sports" like break dancing, surfing and skateboarding

You can already tell the IOC is politically biased from the way they removed Russia.

Weightlifting is also traditional western sport. Break dancing is just for Paris. Skateboarding is also popular among younger Chinese.

 

[henrik]

With the boat it was unique idea, but quite boring. Every country were separate. In a stadium they would stand all together, but what was that? So much woke and weird dancers! The Beijing opening show is still one of the best show. And some live streams on YouTube just show for hours the audience, wtf is that? Everything in the west is declining.

China was crammed onto the same small boat with two other countries, while the US got their own larger boat.

 

[Overseaschinese]

Weightlifting is also traditional western sport. Break dancing is just for Paris. Skateboarding is also popular among younger Chinese.

I heard woke is also a traditional western sport.

 

[siegecrossbow]

I can't wait for the day this western hegemony ends.

When that happens China should add 56 new events for different combinations of table tennis based on imaginary genders.

 

[pbd456]

China has always been 2nd to Russia in artistic swimming ....

 

[sndef888]

When that happens China should add 56 new events for different combinations of table tennis based on imaginary genders.

Realistically there's a ton of Chinese sports like Wushu, Dragonboating and lion dance that still do not have their deserved recognition because of western domination of IOC.

It's pretty ridiculous that Judo has 15 events and Taekwondo has 8 while Wushu has zero.

 

[Randomuser]

Is the China swimming team underperforming?

Li Bing Jie didn't even make the finals.

 

[getready]

That boat procession instead of athletes marching into the stadium is an unique idea, but really awful in practice. I miss the enthusiasm and the energy from them.

Yeah. And China team had to squeeze in one boat together with others while other big countries like Brazil and US had their own boats.

Realistically there's a ton of Chinese sports like Wushu, Dragonboating and lion dance that still do not have their deserved recognition because of western domination of IOC.

It's pretty ridiculous that Judo has 15 events and Taekwondo has 8 while Wushu has zero.

Dun know enough about wushu to comment but I think they had it as exhibition event in previous Olympics. I wonder why they don't get enough votes to be installed as a official event.