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sunnymaxi

sunnymaxi

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Congrats to China at the World Aquatics Championship..

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Zhang Yufei (left), still the butterfly queen with a gold in the 100m butterfly

Yu Yiting (center), 17 years old, won a bronze in the 200m individual medley

Qin Haiyang (right), won a historic gold in 100m breaststroke.

China sweep Medals table with historic 17 Gold medals in this world championship.

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The rise of Chinese swimming competitiveness, is a testament to the rising living standards and the availabilities of swimming facilities in China..

not only high end manufacturing, Chinese also climbing up the value chain in top end Sports. LOL
 
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BlackWindMnt

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You are asking too much. Soccer is only one sport. I would rather China dominate in everything else and let the Europeans and south Americans squabble over soccer.
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Being a top soccer nation is a huge prestige. China would be the only Confucius based nation sucking in soccer. Japan and south Korea made a lot of progress the last 7 years or so in the world cups.
 
manqiangrexue

manqiangrexue

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sunnymaxi said:
Congrats to China at the World Aquatics Championship..

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Zhang Yufei (left), still the butterfly queen with a gold in the 100m butterfly

Yu Yiting (center), 17 years old, won a bronze in the 200m individual medley

Qin Haiyang (right), won a historic gold in 100m breaststroke.

China sweep Medals table with historic 17 Gold medals in this world championship.

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The rise of Chinese swimming competitiveness, is a testament to the rising living standards and the availabilities of swimming facilities in China..

not only high end manufacturing, Chinese also climbing up the value chain in top end Sports. LOL
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This appears to have been a horrifying year for the Americans. With 18 swimming medals left to go (water polo is irrelevent as the US, the Aussies, and obviously the Chinese have all failed to make it to the finals), China leads at 19 golds to Australia's 11 while America has just 3, a historic low by far! 19 is an all time high for China but it isn't too far off from what you'd expect China to have (given that we benefitted a few artistic swimming medals from Russia's absense) since we're usually in the 15-18 range so unless China opens up a whole truckload of whoopass in the last 3 days at swimming, we'll be about par, maybe a bit better, considering the situation. But at this point, the US is dead. They need 16 gold medals in 18 events to catch China assuming China doesn't get any more golds (which is highly possible). The Aussies are having an incredible year at the expense of the US and the absense of the Russians (they've never done nearly this well before) and are still somewhat dangerous, needing 8 golds in 18 events to catch China (once again assuming China wins no more golds). So far, they've won 9 golds at 24 events so they'll need to pick up the pace, but if the US starts up with its dirty tricks making its mutts (and its own athletes even) concede races to the Aussies just to stop China from coming out on top, then the danger is quite real. I'm probably paranoid at that level but that's likely what it would take for China to not take the top spot this year.
 
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coolgod

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manqiangrexue said:
This appears to have been a horrifying year for the Americans. With 18 swimming medals left to go (water polo is irrelevent as the US, the Aussies, and obviously the Chinese have all failed to make it to the finals), China leads at 19 golds to Australia's 11 while America has just 3, a historic low by far! 19 is an all time high for China but it isn't too far off from what you'd expect China to have (given that we benefitted a few artistic swimming medals from Russia's absense) since we're usually in the 15-18 range so unless China opens up a whole truckload of whoopass in the last 3 days at swimming, we'll be about par, maybe a bit better, considering the situation. But at this point, the US is dead. They need 16 gold medals in 18 events to catch China assuming China doesn't get any more golds (which is highly possible). The Aussies are having an incredible year at the expense of the US and the absense of the Russians (they've never done nearly this well before) and are still somewhat dangerous, needing 8 golds in 18 events to catch China (once again assuming China wins no more golds). So far, they've won 9 golds at 24 events so they'll need to pick up the pace, but if the US starts up with its dirty tricks making its mutts (and its own athletes even) concede races to the Aussies just to stop China from coming out on top, then the danger is quite real. I'm probably paranoid at that level but that's likely what it would take for China to not take the top spot this year.
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The US already have a plan to win more medals in the future. It is dirtier than your suggest tricks.

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Trans swimmers to be included in an 'open category' at competitions, World Aquatics says​

The governing body of swimming had banned transgender competitors from major events like the Olympics and world championships.
FUKUOKA, Japan —
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will set up an “open category” that will include transgender competitors, the governing body of the sport said Tuesday.

World Aquatics president Husain Al-Musallam said the event would take place in the future among other races but gave no details. Reports suggest it could be this year.

“This is a very complex topic,” Al-Musallam said at the World Aquatics Congress in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka. “But I am delighted to tell you today that we are now making plans for the first trial of an open category, and we hope to be able to confirm all the details soon.
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“Our sport must be open to everybody,” he said.

World Aquatics had previously banned transgender competitors from major events like the Olympics and world championships.
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The topic has been divisive and many governing bodies in major sports have avoided it. And there will be many questions to answer as the first trial event unfolds under the eyes of lawyers and scientists.

“It was very important that we protected fair competition for our female athletes,” Al-Musallam said. “But you have heard me say many times there should be no discrimination. Nobody should be excluded from our competitions.”
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freestyle at the NCAA championships in Atlanta, becoming the first transgender woman to claim a national title in swimming.

Thomas became a leading symbol of transgender athletes — stirring both opposition and support — when she joined the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team after competing for three years on the men’s squad at the Ivy League school.
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Americans are sore losers, every time.
 
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Qin Haiyang is the man!

Dude just broke the WR in 200m breaststroke! He not only smashed it but he did it in front of the Aussie WR holder who finished second.

Qin is officially in Goat discussion now for breaststroke swimmers. No one in history ever did the 50/100/200m triple win before in major international competition. Not just for the breaststroke but for any other strokes. Shows how hard is it to do that. And he did it comfortably.

Sorry I doubted him yesterday when he finished second behind the WR holder on the semis. I thought Zac was hard to beat but Qin brought home the bacon. Congrats!

The dude is super jacked by the way! He must be super hard trainer.

The bonus was listening to live commentary on Australia's channel nine. The commentators were all expecting their guy to win but when it was clear he was getting beat, they all sounded like they just learned their dog died. Nothing against them as they were complimentary on the china team and Qin especially but it was funny as feck lol.
 
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Also, the post race interview (on the poolside, immediately after the 200m race) was hilarious! The interviewer commented that Qin told him his dream to break the world record and now he has done it. Then Qin said that, actually that wasn't his dream. He said to the interviewer, he actually told him the dream is to break the 100m world record, not the 200m, remember? lol
 
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