London 2012 Olympics: China's Yi Siling wins first gold medal of the Games

[Nan Yang]

Never heard cricket before. you can ignore the indians

Cricket ?

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

Cricket ?

It's very Shuai

 

[anarchy 99]

Ok let's do some calculations.
We need 4 more gold medals to get to 40. But the thing is, I don't think even 40 golds is enough to win the gold medal count. US has men's and women's basketball, women's indoor volleyball, Women's football, womens waterpolo, BMX, athletics.
Their team sports alone will get them 5 golds, that will put them at 39 golds. You add BMX gold and athletics, it's likely US will exceed 40 gold medals. Faaark!!!
If only we had 3 or 4 gold medals from athletics, we could have held off the US. But at least we are close.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

Ok let's do some calculations.
We need 4 more gold medals to get to 40. But the thing is, I don't think even 40 golds is enough to win the gold medal count. US has men's and women's basketball, women's indoor volleyball, Women's football, womens waterpolo, BMX, athletics.
Their team sports alone will get them 5 golds, that will put them at 39 golds. You add BMX gold and athletics, it's likely US will exceed 40 gold medals. Faaark!!!
If only we had 3 or 4 gold medals from athletics, we could have held off the US. But at least we are close.

Does it matter?

 

[anarchy 99]

Does it matter?

Ofcourse it matters, it's about racial superiority, political system superiority, geopolitical rivalry, bragging rights, etc.

Olympics is showcasing your soft power (cultural power) to the entire world.

 

[KRAIT]

Ofcourse it matters, it's about racial superiority, political system superiority, geopolitical rivalry, bragging rights, etc.

Olympics is showcasing your soft power (cultural power) to the entire world.

If that's your view of Olympics, then sorry to say you misinterpreted it just like billions of people. But I have to agree with you as it is popular belief no matter how much anyone deny.

 

[anon45]

Does it matter?

To many Chinese on this forum? You can judge by the earlier posts. It sounds to me like it does matter to them, very deeply.You'd think the West and China were in the middle of a cold war. You sound like one of the few on here who takes the Olympics as it is, a venue for the athletes of every nation to compete, and with not much relevance to every day life and politics.

Ofcourse it matters, it's about racial superiority, political system superiority, geopolitical rivalry, bragging rights, etc.

Olympics is showcasing your soft power (cultural power) to the entire world.

Case in point.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

To many Chinese on this forum? You can judge by the earlier posts. It sounds to me like it does matter to them, very deeply. You sound like one of the few on here who takes the Olympics as it is, a venue for the athletes of every nation to compete, and with not much relevance to every day life and politics.

It sure does matter to me, the question is, how much?

As long as our athletes try their best, and maximize their potential, I will be happy.

Doing well on the medals table is just a bonus.

 

[anarchy 99]

To many Chinese on this forum? You can judge by the earlier posts. It sounds to me like it does matter to them, very deeply.You'd think the West and China were in the middle of a cold war. You sound like one of the few on here who takes the Olympics as it is, a venue for the athletes of every nation to compete, and with not much relevance to every day life and politics.



Case in point.

When there are westerners who regard the Olympic medal table as an important tool of soft power, then yes, it is very important. Sure there are few that don't care, but for the china bashing A$$holes in the west that use the medal table to claim whatever type (racial, political system, sporting system, cultural system, sign of rising power) of superiority, this medal table means everything. Just like GDP size, number of aircraft carriers, size of consumer market, Fortune 500 brands, UNSC veto power, etc are important indicators of hard power, the position in the Olympic medal table is an important indicator of soft power.

Why do you think there is a medal table in the first place and is reported in the media daily?

IT MATTERS!!!!!

 

[shuttler]

Dammit. Our weakness in track & field is really costing us in the medal table. In swimming we did well to improve but in track & field we have not made much progress. I think we should concentrate on field events where we can compete as track has Jamaicans and Africans to challenge the Americans.
We all know the US gets the vast majority of their medals in swimming and track & field. I think we should concentrate on these 2 sports to close the gap.

Swimming:
China: 5G overall 10
US: 16G overall 30
DIFFERENCE: 11G overall 20


Track & Field (on going):
China: 1G overall 3
US: 5G overall 20
DIFFERENCE: 4G overall 17.

We gain better grounds in swimming than track and field.
In track, only our race walk and 110m hurdle get medals in recent games.

The top 4 finishing time in this year's 110m hurdle were:
Gold 12.92 sec
Silver 13.04
Bronze 13.12
4th 13.39

Xie Wenjun ran a rather decent race @13.34, his personal best (PB), missing the qualification to the final by a whisker. If he was in the final, he could have a shot at bronze. His PB is just 0.22 second from the bronze medalist.

If that's your view of Olympics, then sorry to say you misinterpreted it just like billions of people. But I have to agree with you as it is popular belief no matter how much anyone deny.

To many Chinese on this forum? You can judge by the earlier posts. It sounds to me like it does matter to them, very deeply.You'd think the West and China were in the middle of a cold war. You sound like one of the few on here who takes the Olympics as it is, a venue for the athletes of every nation to compete, and with not much relevance to every day life and politics.

Case in point.

go play your crickets indian losers!

 

[anarchy 99]

We gain better grounds in swimming than track and field.
In track, only our race walk and 110m hurdle get medals in recent games.

The top 4 finishing time in this year's 110m hurdle were:
Gold 12.92 sec
Silver 13.04
Bronze 13.12
4th 13.39

Xie Wenjun ran a rather decent race @13.34, his personal best (PB), missing the qualification to the final by a whisker. If he was in the final, he could have a shot at bronze. His PB is just 0.22 second from the bronze medalist.





go play your crickets indian losers!

Yes track & field is our major weakness. Although I have seen many Chinese athletes enter finals in many events. This wasn't the case a few years ago. So we are making progress even in track & field, but just not winning any medals. We had finalists in women's discuss, women's shot put, women's javelin, etc.

In swimming, we actually have medalists and now gold medalists. In time I'm sure we will have medalists in track & field.

 

[shuttler]

I can't remember the marathon runner who won a gold medal before his birthday happy birthday; and yes I am late (-_-) .

He is a race walker not a marathon man. His name is Chen Ding whose team mate Wang Zhen took the bronze @20m race walk.

Get the f out looser we dont care about your pathetic in sport country period



thank you for the info mate in that cae i think we are still on target to get 40 golds

Good! As many as possible!

 

[shuttler]

Yes track & field is our major weakness. Although I have seen many Chinese athletes enter finals in many events. This wasn't the case a few years ago. So we are making progress even in track & field, but just not winning any medals. We had finalists in women's discuss, women's shot put, women's javelin, etc.

In swimming, we actually have medalists and now gold medalists. In time I'm sure we will have medalists in track & field.

We will get there with the improvement in the physical quality of our people, nutrition, method of training and advancement in training equipment and coaching aids!

 

[isro2222]

@chauism than why china trying hard to get into cricket?.... Argue them. They know better whats cricket.... Cricket in other words is money and money is everything in this evil world.... By the way new zealand, australia, england good in olympic because their cricket and other sports are equal.... In india its all cricket and cricket and nothing else.... This is the reason we are current champions.... Our IPL been once shift to south africa. People over their cried at the last day of IPL because they wanted it to never leave south africa.... China says they will play in world cup in 2019.... i say by 2020 india will do better in olympic.... we already got more medals then we ever got. So we are improving. In CWG we left same brits behind in medals tally who are looting medals atm.... The day china do better in cricket will be the day india will do better in olympics....
@chinatoday what's wrong? Why losing temper? Cricket played by 10 full countries because its not easy to play.... There are countries who took 100 years to learn cricket. China desperate to be in cricket.... Blame them. And by the way i didnt brought cricket in this thread. It was asked by chinese user and i replied it.... Its easy to insult anyone here.... My last reply to you....

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

@chauism than why china trying hard to get into cricket?.... Argue them. They know better whats cricket.... Cricket in other words is money and money is everything in this evil world.... By the way new zealand, australia, england good in olympic because their cricket and other sports are equal.... In india its all cricket and cricket and nothing else.... This is the reason we are current champions.... Our IPL been once shift to south africa. People over their cried at the last day of IPL because they wanted it to never leave south africa.... China says they will play in world cup in 2019.... i say by 2020 india will do better in olympic.... we already got more medals then we ever got. So we are improving. In CWG we left same brits behind in medals tally who are looting medals atm.... The day china do better in cricket will be the day india will do better in olympics....
@chinatoday what's wrong? Why losing temper? Cricket played by 10 full countries because its not easy to play.... There are countries who took 100 years to learn cricket. China desperate to be in cricket.... Blame them. And by the way i didnt brought cricket in this thread. It was asked by chinese user and i replied it.... Its easy to insult anyone here.... My last reply to you....

Ha ha ha HA

The pain and frustration of a failed self proclaimed superpower is showing indeed. Cant win the Olympics where the bulk of humanity competes so talks up cricket!

The less than handful of bronze and silver medalists from India are hailed as heroes back home, so please dont try to discredit the importance of the Olympics in your country.
If India doesnt win a gold medal in the next few days, the country has actually taken a step backwards since the last Olympics. Pain and frustration indeed!