Don't know where you are hiding all these years.
There isn't much world class medals won by Asians, specifically East and South East Asians.
We were so proud when our Tan Howe Liang won silver in weight lifting at the 1960 Olympics for Singapore, but nothing or not much after that.
China changed all that.
Until China came upon the scene, Asians won a paltry amount of medals in world major or minor events, something like what the pathetic Indians got.
China has shown that Asians can win in many categories of the Olympic games that we Asians thought was impossible to achieve. China is also increasingly competitive in the Field and Track events, which is evident that except for the few Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese, all the others are mostly black.
Hopefully China can also make its mark in Fifa soccer as well in time to come.
China don't have to top the medals tally, they just have to show that Asians can also be competitive in world class competitions. Of course there are some categories that Asians are not likely to win like in Basketball where being extremely tall will give you a big advantage.
Its not surprising that we Asians have this mindset to strive to be better than or equal to the Western Powers after being subjugated, bullied and exploited by these colonialists for decades, except maybe for yourself.
China by winning or reaching the finals has given hope and tremendous encouragement to such aspirations.
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Actually, I don't know where you have been hiding for the last 20 years. World Class achievement have been done and have since been equally strong in many of the sporting field.
Japan/Korea was dominating in baseball ROK won World Cup twice and 5 Runner up in the last 20 years, Japan have 2 Runner Up and Taipei have 1, also South Korea ran 4th in 2002 FIFA World Cup and is placed 17th on FIFA world Ranking beating a lot of European Power House. Not to Mention South Korea dominated in Judo and Taekwondo (Japan earn 3 gold in Judo in 2016 Olympic, South Korea won 2 in Taekwondo) Not to mention Shooting and Archery, both of which South Korea dominating the world (Especially Archery, which
clean up all 4 gold in 2016 Summer Olympic. South Korean also did pretty good in Golf.
North Korea was the current U-20 and U-16 Women Soccer's World Cup holder.
Indonesian Rio Haryanto was the first Indonesian F1 Driver, coming to term with a few of his Asian F-1 driver mainly from Japan. Indonesia also dominated Badminton along with China and Malaysia
Japan on the other hand was dominating in Volleyball in the 1980s. As well as several combat sport, soccer and
There are quite a few choices in Asia when it come to sport, not to mention the up and coming nation like Singapore and Vietnam which started winning gold in Olympic Games, hell, even Hong Kong have one Gold and 2 bronze in Olympic.
Being Proud of being Asian and being Proud of being Chinese is two different thing, people should have been proud of their own heritage and so it's quite funny and to some extend, sad, for you to be proud of China as you have no relationship to China what so ever (Maybe you are of Chinese Descent? I don't know). If you are a Chinese, then I would understand you are rooting for China, but if you are not, and you are rooting for China just because they are Asian, then there are something wrong with you. Why not root for Japan, Why not for South Korea? Why not Malaysia? But you don't just root for any one particular country because they are Asian. My wife is Swedish, she would not root for Denmark just because Denmark done better on international Sport and both Swede and Dane are Scandinavian.
But then this is beside the point. World Aquatic Championship is not looked upon as anything serious to Swimmer, WAC does not give out Olympic Ticket to nations, which mean they are not really counted in the standing of a Swimmer (Winning WAC does not automatically qualify for the next summer Olympic anymore) so a lot of athletes either not bother to go or not performing their best anyway to begin with. Case in Point, as I said China have been virtually dominated along with the US in WAC Chinese are either First or Second on the medal tally, but then that does not reflect well on the last 3 Olympics, where the combine gold medal total between 2008 Beijing Olympic, 2012 London Olympic and 2016 Rio Olympic have less Gold medal than any single one of these WAC meet (China have 8 Gold medal in 3 Olympic and at least 11 gold each WAC since 2007.)
Happy for something that's not going to make a different is, I don't know how to describe it, yes, Sun Yang beat Mack Horton in WAC 2017, he also beat him in WAC 2015 and WAC 2013, yet Mack Horton is the one that won the Olympic, he is the one the world is going to remember. The stuff that I want to see is more Asian Country winning gold in competitive international Arena, not some secondary challenge, majority of reason why we Asian are lacking in sporting field is because we satisfied and compromised on second best situation, we are overly celebrate when we won something in meet like this, and then when the big thing came, those performance we saw in these meet is no where to be seen, mostly because we are still fond of and drunk in the "Achievement" we have in these meet. I am happy for any Asian to win gold, not just China,
were you happy when Schooling beat Phelps in 100 meters butterfly? Wouldn't you want more Singaporean win gold in Olympic just like Joseph Schooling did?
That's because olympic year is the time when usada injects the lionshare of illegal substances and performance enhancing drugs to american swimmers. It's common sense that the american professional dopers will have a boost.
You do know Performance Enhancing drug is not used like that? If you want to boost your performance, you use it 1 or 2 year prior and continuously to boost your performance, there does not exist drug that can turn a normal person into Hulk in just a day or a week.
加油！ And also congrats to the other medal winning countries, This event will be debuted in the coming Olympics!
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