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manqiangrexue
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Yes, a 50/100/200 sweep has never been done before because it's so rare to have genetics for both sprinting and sustained effort. Bolt could do the 100 and 200 but no more at the 400. Australian Kaylee McKeown, however, has the chance to do it tomorrow for the Breastroke as well but very much hoping that Peng Xuwei will bring her down as Peng did get the best time during the heats.
In any case, China now has 20 gold medals to Australia's 12, so no change in difference from yesterday and now the Aussies need 8 golds from 13 races in the last 2 days to catch China. I don't think that's possible. America's still at 3 somehow... this has got to be the most serious meltdown in swimming history.
broadsword
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That's true. The shorter sprint events require more power while the longer distance events require more endurance. Hence why we seldom, if ever, see any swimmers dominate in all the categories. Sun Yang dominated the long distance 1500m but when he concentrated on mid distance like 400 and 200m events he lost his dominance in the 1500m.
There's big discussion in swimming forum of US poor performance. Aus definitely performed much better this meet. I think US missed their star swimmer Dressel but he alone cannot explain the collapse. Maybe their time is up or maybe just a bib. But the last time they had so little gold medals in big international competition was more than 15 years ago I think. Something must be cooking with their swimming program.
I think the Australian swim team is going through a golden era. Hopefully they deny the Americans the golds in swimming at the 2024 Olympics which will help China top the medal table.
China won the 2023 World Aquatics Championships.
Excellent results in swimming by some very promising youngsters. The future is bright for Chinese swimming.
Excellent results in swimming by some very promising youngsters. The future is bright for Chinese swimming.
Utilizing the American way oF counting medals, they won the championship because they have the most medals.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
The US explaining why its Olympic medal haul should be considered greater than China's in 2048:
In 2076:
In 2104:
I wish I can marry Zhang Yufei hahaha. yes Qin is a beast. hopefully he can be at his best next year at the olympics. proud of my country for winning this year's World Aquatics Championships. but that's only because the US had an off year, they too good at swimming. does anyone else think it's unfair that the US has black people competing for it at the olympics? (Half kidding). they have white people for swimming, black people for track and field, two areas with the most medals. I wish china had some black athletes, they absolutely dominate track and field.
anyone here like American football? it's my fav sport.
anyone here like American football? it's my fav sport.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Actually, China has beaten the US at full force before and usually comes within one or 2 gold medals at the typical comp. The US beat us by 0 golds last year; needed to go to silvers as a tie-breaker. We're not far off and the US, in normal form, has only gotten a 20 gold medal haul 1 time since China really started competing in 2009 (before that, we had like only 5 medals and were like 5th in the standings). Everything's a little off with Russia absent though, as they empty up the competition in swimming but also in artistic performances so everyone got a little boost.
I expect China to get better at swimming as the country gets richer and more kids get pool time to showcase their talents. On the other hand, I expect Chinese efforts at sports like weightlifting to suffer somewhat as that sport relies on poor rural folk throwing thier kids to the wolves in order to get the talent pool we have there.
Black people disrespect themselves when they compete for the US and honor the people and the flag that enslaved their ancestors. It is their mental problem. Can't blame the US government for accepting. If I were a black athlete in the US, I would train on America's dime and the second I got good enough to win, I would use some 23 and an Me crap to track my lineage to my nation of origin in Africa and win that medal for them. Become a national hero too.
That's not how we roll. We have pride and confidence in our Chinese blood. What we win, we win by our power. If it's not meant for us, others can take it. Every Chinese athlete on the olympic team has Chinese blood. I certainly wouldn't mind if a kid who was half black half Chinese ran for us (genetics-wise, a Chinese-Jamaican mix would be absolute killer at the 100-200m dash because Chinese explosive power genetics combined with Jamaican short-term sustained stride genetics would be unbeatable) but I would be ashamed if team China bought a foreigner to compete for us. It's like giving up and admitting that Chinese people aren't good enough to win, but then growling that we're shamelessly greedy for the medal anyway.
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