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You don't use Dong for the breast! Oh, wait...
Olympics 2024 - discussion thread
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You don't use Dong for the breast! Oh, wait...
Why gymnastics team performing so poorly? I’m not familiar with gymnastics. Has great gymnasts retired or coach changed or not performing under Olympics pressure?
It’s so frustrating. I had it on the background screen and Zhu xueying the Chinese defending Olympics champion was doing very well. she qualified first to reach the final. I heard the commentator said she won multiple golds and silvers in recent world cups so her form seem good. Not sure what went wrong in her routine to miss out on medals. Maybe she was underscored?
He Yicheng the second Chinese girl made huge error though. I saw it live, on her third jump she landed too close to the edge and hit the trampoline hard. Had to end her routine. She is also very experienced, sometimes rookie errors happens to the best of them I guess.
when’s the men’s final?
Too harsh on Qin haiyang. He was dominant in last years world champs and the world cups. He still have the 200 m breast world record. I think mentally he was under too much pressure in Paris. They probably got to him.
There's a lot of chokers who are missing out gold narrowly. Maybe China needs to spend more on sports psychology to keep their minds intact.
There are also events where US is doing really well. With only 4 out of the 14 gold medals in artistic gymnastics decided so far, the US has already matched their total of 2 golds from the Tokyo Olympics where the drug adderall was banned.
Mental toughness is the main differentiator in top level sport. Just look how tough Djokovic is in tennis. He is a mental beast even when everyone is cheering his opponents. Performing under pressure is what separates the champions from the rest. Olympics you stay in the Olympic village so more distractions compared to a world championship where you can stay in your hotel and have no distractions. Mental skills coach is used by many sports now. It’s just as important as fitness coach or technical coach.
Yeah think that would help.
To be fair, the final in trampoline only allows the athletes to do one routine. The pressure is huge. 4 years of preparation and they only get one chance. One chance of a few jumps on the trampoline. Everything in less than a minute. A small margin of error too.
Heard the girls cried in the end. So sad to bomb out in the big one after being so good in the other competitons.
Yup waves and splashes created from swimmers in adjacent lanes can slow you down. So yes in theory you like your two male swimmers swimming the first two legs . So you get a head start and clean waters. Back, breast, butterfly then lastly free is the order for medley relays.
in the past, Xu and Qin swam the first 2 legs and they gave the two female swimmers In butterfly and free a head start and clean water. China won the world champs using this formation. This new formation including Pan the man is abit risky. But I guess no way they will leave him out after his heroics.
I agree with you on this. All in all They needed to change. But I wonder if Qin was in form, would they risk changing the formation?
It will be a big call to leave out Pan. He is in form and literally the fastest freestyle swimmer in the history of the sport. But as said earlier, breaststroke is the biggest time difference between men and women. So if Qin was in form, he has to be there. Then it is Xu who has to be replaced even though he is the silver medalist in the 100m backstroke. I think the correct team composition is more important than having the best individuals.