This is sad, and, saddening, actually!
Their national psyche seems to, actually, be that of an emotionally traumatized child.
It’s understandable, somewhat, I guess, given their history of Imperial domination and Colonial exploitation?
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Their national psyche seems to, actually, be that of an emotionally traumatized child.
It’s understandable, somewhat, I guess, given their history of Imperial domination and Colonial exploitation?
manqiangrexue
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Update: I have now learned that Liu has not even completed his bulk to 102KG since he was rising from 89KG to 96KG to the 102kg Olympic category. He literally weighed less than 100KG when he beat those 2 Olympic champs who were both over 109KG (they weighed in at 109KG but rehydrated afterwards). This is really Gigachad level but also explains why he wasn't exhausted like all the other Chinese lifters since they had to do the Asian Champs earlier, then the World's and a month later, this (schedule scrunched from COVID). They had to cut weight 2-3 times while he could just walk around eat and drink all the wants as he trains. It's just another training day for him except he's doing it on stage!
"The Chinese lifter was not able to bulk up for the heavier division in such a short time, weighing in at just 99.5kg, yet still lifted 14kg more than the 404kg total he achieved to win his 102kg world title."
HK 8Chinese weightlifting ended up with 5 golds this time to Noko's 6. We'll see what drug testing can do but I'm not too hopeful because it takes some serious fking up to fail an in competition test. China also just wrapped up the World's a month ago where Noko did not attend so 2 golds that we had steady slipped away from athlete fatigue. Fat Li Wenwen could not appear in the superheavy category and Liao Guifang, whose score at the Worlds was significantly higher than even the doped up Noko score from yesterday, bailed out of the competition after the second attempt to prevent injury.
That said, China has an incredible rising star. Liu Huanhua AKA Gigachad, is on a trajectory that is almost unheard of. He showed promise last year as an 89kg lifter doing 166+215. This year, he went up to 102kg and in his first competition, went 175+210 (we went right to 223 but failed so his real power was somewhere in between), second comp went 180+224 in the same category, but just now, he lifted as a 109kg lifter (he was just an overweight 102; he definitely had no time to fill out to 109 but just was able to attend without cutting weight so likely something like 105kg) and made 185+233! He won the gold medal for China beating out the reigning Olympic+World Champion and the former Olympic Champion, both guys who are total veterans of the category! This guy is one to watch and although they called him Gigachad before he had the numbers to back it up, he's certainly earning it now!
China's gold count is at 187 out of 433 so far. There are a total of 480 so China needs 13/47 to make or 14/47 to beat the 200 number. Looks like it will happen but could get a little choppy cus China's best events are behind it. Regardless, China got 199/477 in Guangzhou 2010 so I hope China can beat that but we're not getting anywhere near our best performance which was 1990 Beijing were we took 183/310 golds, meaning just shy of 60%!
Despite my joke about India just going to sporting event for free food, they are doing really well for themselves this year with 22 golds, behind the top 3 China (187), Japan (47), SK (36) of course but that is absolutely a historic performance considering India's track record.
Macao 1
Taipei 17
Well over 200 golds in my book
ESPN gonna ESPN. What a shite report. Focused so much on US team who didn't even win the gold or silver.
China mens team should be fine. The timing was bad as world championship in Belgium coincided with the Asian games in Hangzhou. So china split their team. It was a B+ team that showed up for the world championship. Last year's world men's AA champion Zhang Boheng competed in Hangzhou instead along a few other star performers while Japan sent their A team to the worlds.
If everything stays the same, Russia not being able to attend, team event in Paris Olympics should be China and Japan battling it out for gold again. With china the favorite this time.
As for women team, China actually performed alot better than last year. They came in 4th and qualified for Olympics. I doubt they can be medal in the team or vault event unless they can find a great vaulter which is their main weakness.
But in the uneven bars and balance beam china will be strong contenders for gold. It's will be very massive disaster for them to not even medal.
As I type this, just read news that China gold and bronze in the rings event.
In women's uneven bars, they got gold and bronze. As I said before they are strong in uneven bars. This is the third year running china won this event in the world championship. Previous 2 time world champion Wei Xiaoyuan didn't make it this time but they found another young gem in Qiu Qiyuan to make it a three peat for china.
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manqiangrexue
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You gotta love how Westerners puff themselves up over the smallest achievements LOL. I just got recommended a YouTube video titled, "Italy's Legend and Big Hope: Antonino Pizzolato's on His Way to Triumph in Paris." I'm thinking, there is no medal threat from Italy I know of, so I looked up his medals record: 1 bronze World's + 1 bronze Olympic. Only golds are from European comps. They call this dude a legend LOLOL. They say he can win in Paris, yeah, if the top 6 other people including both Chinese lifters get injured and pull out LOL. On top of that, this dude himself is currently injured!
This "Legend's" trophy room:
A real Legend's (Lu Xiaojun's) trophy room:
This "Legend's" trophy room:
A real Legend's (Lu Xiaojun's) trophy room:
AssassinsMace
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I can remember when there was high unabashed skepticism that Japanese professional baseball players could play in Major League Baseball because the Japanese players were inferior to American players.
Anyone watch Squid Game the reality show? A Vietnamese-American woman won and the Republican incels are accusing the show of being woke and staged because we all know only a white straight man can win so because it didn't happen that way, it must be choreographed. It's based on a South Korean TV show and they still think only straight white men can only win...
$700 million is simply out of this world...
LeBron James, arguably the greatest basketball player of all time, has made $479 million in 21 seasons. Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time, made $333 million in 23 seasons. I hope Ohtani succeeds on the Dodgers
Football players are lucky though because they only have to play 17 times a season whereas baseball players have to play 162.
There's another player in the Japanese leagues named Roki Sasaki who might actually be the best pitcher on the planet right now ... throws a 102 MPH fastball. He might be heading to MLB soon rather than stay in Japan for a few more years like he originally planned (if his team lets him).
There's another player in the Japanese leagues named Roki Sasaki who might actually be the best pitcher on the planet right now ... throws a 102 MPH fastball. He might be heading to MLB soon rather than stay in Japan for a few more years like he originally planned (if his team lets him).
17 games in a season is already a lot for organized American football and the NFL still wants an 18 game season. A 60-minute game of football is very harsh on the body, moreso than basketball and baseball comparable to rugby, which is why one week is best to recover for the next match. This is among the reasons why the International Olympic Committee opted for flag football because it is not timely for the tournament setting of Olympics and neither for NFL teams because the pre-season overlaps.