Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

[AssassinsMace]

Yes, I know, we all know.

But we don't need it continuously shoved into our faces.

The purpose of this thread isn't to enable a discourse analysis of major sporting events in context of geopolitical stressors and historical and cultural frameworks. All modes of entertainment, media, sporting, job markets, technology, are relevant to geopolitics, history and culture, but you need to exercise some restraint to let those mediums to still be observed and enjoyed for what they are.

Well I'm not the one bringing up cheating. The US and its allies are. Yes, do nothing say nothing...

 

[Blitzo]

Well I'm not the one bringing up cheating. The US and its allies are. Yes, do nothing say nothing...

Complaining about their hypocrisy in context of sporting is fine, but generalizing that to everything else like geopolitics, history, war is outside the scope of this thread, yes.

Please exercise some more discipline.

 

[AssassinsMace]

Complaining about their hypocrisy in context of sporting is fine, but generalizing that to everything else like geopolitics, history, war is outside the scope of this thread, yes.

Please exercise some more discipline.

You cheat! No, you cheat! No, you're the one cheating!

Yes providing context is bad.

 

[PandaAI]

Seems my sources were correct earlier that they used Qin because they decided they go for gold or nothing.

Qin actually performed his job this time at the mixed relay and China was in the lead for the first half. However the problem is the females are just not as fast as the younger americans so america won out.

I wonder will they have this weakness in the men's medley. If not this might the only other chance of China getting gold in swimming.

My only concern in the Men’s medley is in butterly. Xu world class in back. Qin world class in breast. Pan world class in free. Wang Changhao and Sun Jiajun are not world class in butterfly. They both failed to even qualify for semis in the 100 fly. The recognised 3 guys will have to swim exceptionally well to make up for the slower butterfly leg. My hope is on Qin and Pan.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

Qin haiyang is way faster in the 4x100 mixed medley than in his 100m breast. It looks like his time is getting closer to his personal best.

Hopefully he can conclude his redemption arc by putting out another amazing performance in the men's medley relay and help China secure a gold.

 

[MrCrazyBoyRavi]

It seems like China is doing well in western dominated games with huge breakthrough in swimming, tennis and even BMX bikes. The wealth of the nation is trickling into quality of sports as well. I think china will soon dominate basketball as well. Only sports that China is far behind is football. Once you have a good football team, there will be a huge face lift and stamp china as a sports juggernaunt.

 

[broadsword]

It seems like China is doing well in western dominated games with huge breakthrough in swimming, tennis and even BMX bikes. The wealth of the nation is trickling into quality of sports as well. I think china will soon dominate basketball as well. Only sports that China is far behind is football. Once you have a good football team, there will be a huge face lift and stamp china as a sports juggernaunt.

I can only hope.

 

[iBBz]

Unsurprisingly, biological males have an advantage over their biological female counterparts. Match only lasted 45 seconds.

She isn't trans. She was born a woman.

 

[jiajia99]

She isn't trans. She was born a woman.

Hmmm, this must be quite a humiliating lose. The way her opponent threw that kind of a tantrum after she got beat was terrible and honestly uncalled for. After a bit of check, it seems that she really is born a woman with an extremely strong physique and not transgender like i gave originally thought based on some preliminary news, I honestly felt terrible from that one, she deserved her win and I admit, she is built to win as well. Damn this Olympics is a racism filled cluster frig, any time a western athlete got their buts kicked, they complain like brats.

 

[Index]

Hmmm, this must be quite a humiliating lose. The way her opponent threw that kind of a tantrum after she got beat was terrible and honestly uncalled for. After a bit of check, it seems that she really is born a woman with an extremely strong physique and not transgender like i gave originally thought based on some preliminary news, I honestly felt terrible from that one, she deserved her win and I admit, she is built to win as well. Damn this Olympics is a racism filled cluster frig, any time a western athlete got their buts kicked, they complain like brats.

Trans is an ideological thing first and foremost. She is not trans, but she was born with a condition that gives her, frankly speaking, unfair levels of testosterone.

I do not think olympics should be a fiesta of whoever can field the most "asthmatics" or random diseases that just happen to require medication or give advantages to the athletes. Olympics should be and stay PED free, the way China has practiced the Olympics so far.

That said, it's not like this Algerian woman is unbeatable, but I do not think it's fair that 1 athlete is allowed to have much more testosterone than baseline. It's hypocritical to criticise western PED farming in swimming while allowing this essentially legalized testosterone abuse.

Clean athletes beating athletes with PEDs still happen, but I don't find it fair to the clean athletes.