Olympics 2024 - discussion thread

[henrik]

Meanwhile,

China Gold & Silver in the Men's Gymnastics Rings!


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This Liu Yang also got gold in 2021. He is usually not part of the team event. He just shows up for the rings for China.

 

[PandaAI]

In swimming they added 2 more events in 2020 and 2024. 1500m freestyle for women. 800m freestyle for men.
Both events where US has gold favourites. They remove events from other sports and add events in US dominated sports.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

Winners don't bow to a reality in which they are not winning. They shape reality to make themselves win. Train the smartest, train the hardest, eat the best possible diet for their sport, hire the best coaches, fire the ones who fail.

Don't you think they are already doing that? It is easy to expect others to do more at no cost to yourself.

 

[CMP]

In swimming they added 2 more events in 2020 and 2024. 1500m freestyle for women. 800m freestyle for men.
Both events where US has gold favourites. They remove events from other sports and add events in US dominated sports.

Yep. It's rigged.

 

[vincent]

 

[PandaAI]

China won gold in both the individual blue-ribbon event (Men’s 100 freestyle) and in the team blue-ribbon event (Men’s 100 medley relay). If you want 2 golds in swimming, these 2 events would be it.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

 

[Eventine]

Winners don't bow to a reality in which they are not winning. They shape reality to make themselves win. Train the smartest, train the hardest, eat the best possible diet for their sport, hire the best coaches, fire the ones who fail.

The shaping of reality is more about changing the international order so that you are setting the standards for what sports are popular/represented and not the West.

Like why are the vast majority of these sports outside of pure athletics (swimming, track & field, weight lifting), invented by the West or had their judging standards defined in the West? If going by popularity, why are American sports like skate boarding & break dancing influential enough to be Olympics categories, but Chinese martial arts, fire dancing, lion dancing, etc. aren’t?

Why do we play Western sports but they don't play ours?

This is the reality we should be looking to change.

The US plays 50% more events than China and it isn’t just because it has more money, it’s also because more of the sports in the Olympics were created & defined in the US. When Western culture sets the standard for what sports get approved by the IOC whose president has always been Western, you will always be at a disadvantage.

 

[FriedButter]

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Another triathlete hospitalized after Olympics swim in Seine​

The Belgian triathlon team has forfeited the mixed triathlon finals scheduled for Monday due to an athlete, Claire Michel, being hospitalized after swimming in the Seine River, the country’s Olympic Committee has announced.

The sporting body took jabs at the Paris Olympics organizers, expressing hopes “that lessons will be learned for future triathlon competitions,” and that there will be no more “uncertainty” for athletes and support personnel.

“The BOIC and Belgian Triathlon must unfortunately announce that the ‘Belgian Hammers’ will not be starting the mixed relay at the Paris Olympic Games tomorrow. The decision, like this communication, was taken in consultation with the athletes and their entourage,” the committee said in a statement.

“Claire Michel, a member of the relay, is unfortunately ill and must withdraw from the competition,” it added.

While the committee did not elaborate, local media reports have suggested that Michel, who has been hospitalized for four days already, was diagnosed with an E.coli bacterial infection. While the athlete apparently fell ill shortly after finishing 38th in the women’s triathlon competition on Wednesday, it has not been positively established that she contracted the bacteria in the murky waters of the Seine.

The development comes after the Swiss triathlon team said it had to replace triathlete Adrien Briffod with Simon Westermann after the former contracted a gastrointestinal infection. The team noted it was still unclear whether Briffod’s illness was related to the Seine.

The Belgian team has been highly critical of the condition of the Seine, with multiple athletes publicly speaking of their experience. “While swimming under the bridge, I felt and saw things that we shouldn’t think about too much,” Jolien Vermeylen, who finished 24th in Wednesday’s event, said, adding that the waters did not exactly taste like “Coca-Cola or Sprite.”

“The Seine has been dirty for a hundred years, so they can’t say the safety of the athletes is a priority,” she claimed.

The water condition of the highly-polluted river had been a source of widespread concern long before the Games. A $1.5 billion project aimed at cleaning up the Seine yielded mixed results at best and was marred by various mishaps, including the release of a large quantity of sewage into the river shortly before the Olympics.

The French authorities, however, insisted on holding open-water competitions on the Seine, with several senior officials, including French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, taking a swim in the river to demonstrate that it is safe. President Emmanuel Macron, who had also made a half-hearted pledge to take a dip, however, ultimately abstained from doing so.

Another one bites the dust.

 

[CMP]

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Another one bites the dust.

Given this is the Seine we are talking about, I think you mean another one bites the shit. One has to be all sorts of stupid to swim in raw sewage aka completely untreated piss and shit.