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Tokyo Olympic 2021: Discussion and Update

in track and field, boxing and basket ball, blacks are almost unbeatable, they are not very good at swimming though.
Even if blacks has an advantage ,like in lungs size,you just need one genetic freak with the ethic and brilliance of mind ,to snag that spot,because the spot is still limited top few .Not many can match China in training and effort.China's talent pool in sports especially in track and field is small and less transparent ,compared to US.
 
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Even if blacks has an advantage ,like in lungs size,you just need one genetic freak with the ethic and brilliance of mind ,to snag that spot,because the spot is still limited top few .Not many can match China in training and effort.China's talent pool in sports especially in track and field is small and less transparent ,compared to US.

China need another Liu Xiang who proved Chinese can win in sprint events.

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Its like the whole Western allies MSM have the same message to propagate when China appears to emerge Champion.

That is Olympic medals is not important anymore.


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Let's look at China's response after Rio...hmmm

As the Rio Olympics ends on Sunday evening local time, China has collected 26 gold medals as of press time, a lackluster performance compared to the Beijing and London Games. Still, the public has generally been unfazed since observers say the country, already the second largest economy in the world, no longer needs Olympic medals to boost morale.
 
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I believe the medals in this video is almost final as Tokyo Olympic is almost ended

 
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I thought US was going to top the gold rankings by a big margin but it seems it won't turn out that way, Now I start to wonder which country would actually end up on the top.
 
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She was unreal on the beam. Her mount was perfection and she's so nimble. Interesting that her favorite athlete is Simone Biles who was rooting her on.

I thought US was going to top the gold rankings by a big margin but it seems it won't turn out that way, Now I start to wonder which country would actually end up on the top.

Honestly, the leading group should be the country that has the most overall medals, not just the most gold. Because to have the most overall medals, you're competitive all around including gold, so it's not a good way to judge the top champion in medals just by their gold count only.

BTW, watching this 10K open water freestyle race is unbelievable. They have to go around the entire course 7 times!!! That must be the most high endurance event in the Olympics. They've been swimming for a couple hours already and they're about 80% through the whole race. This German Florian Wellbrock has been leading since the start of the race. He's the best in the world that he knocks the fish out of the water lol.

 
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Honestly, the leading group should be the country that has the most overall medals,
Having a sliver is the same as being the last, cause it means you were defeated, that's why many silver medalist cry after getting the medal, it's a lost, not a win.

Sorry, America: China's leading the real Olympic medal count
Dan Wetzel
Wed, August 4, 2021, 4:12 PM·4 min read

TOKYO — China is kicking the United States' tail (at least for now) in these Olympics, although you wouldn’t know it if you just scanned the medal tables in the American media.

In an unexplained yet (apparently) nationally accepted counting method, Americans tally the standings not by what country wins the most golds, but what country wins the most total medals.

NBC. New York Times. Washington Post. Alas, even Yahoo Sports.
This is, to be clear, ridiculous.

That means China’s current tally of 32 golds, 21 silvers and 16 bronzes (69 total) is somehow not as good as the United States’ 25 golds, 29 silvers and 21 bronzes (75 total). Try telling China’s seven extra gold medalists that their victories didn't matter.

What in the name of participation trophies is going on here?

The rest of the world favors gold over everything. That’s how the International Olympic Committee tallies it. Same with the medal standing on the Toyko 2020 website. It’s good enough for media companies all over the world, just not in the U.S. apparently.

Everyone else has this right since, quite literally, gold is better than the others. It’s a simple concept.
Gold. Silver. Bronze.

The gold medalist gets the highest spot on the podium. The flag of the country that the gold medalist represents is raised higher than the others. They play the anthem of the gold medalist, not the others.
There is no subtlety here. There is no room for interpretation. At no point was it ever suggested that the three spots are equals. If they were, then they’d just hand out three gold medals.


Instead, back at the 1904 Games — held in St. Louis, no less — they came up with the concept of three colored medals. Everyone loved it. Prior to that the winner received a silver medal and an olive branch while the runner-ups each got a bronze or copper medal and a laurel branch.

The U.S. though, like its opposition to the metric system, decides to go it alone and, hey, what a coincidence, it just happens to make it look like the Americans are having the most success at the Olympics, when we most certainly are not.

This wasn’t some planned thing. The system was in place before China began capturing more golds here. It isn’t a coordinated way to spare America’s fragile ego and hide the fact that it isn’t dominating the Games.

It just looks that way.

Consider this: If the United States was leading the standings according to every single entity — official or neutral — in the entire world, but the Chinese media used a different system that put them on top … well, what would you think?

Besides, the total medal count does tend to favor the United States, which often has the largest delegation at the Olympics and, thus, the most chances to win medals (613 to China’s 431).

Right now though, it’s just embarrassing. There is no shame in not winning as many golds as China. Really, who cares? A nation's worth is not defined by the strength of its canoe slalom team. Besides, with track and field, basketball and boxing still going, we can still surpass the Chinese by any metric.

But making it look like we are reworking the numbers — even if it isn’t orchestrated — is humiliating.


The simple solution is to weigh the medals for the sake of the standings. Say three points for gold, two for silver and one for bronze. Or whatever value needs to be assigned. Then it wouldn’t be all about the gold, but it also wouldn’t pretend gold was bronze.

No one has ever tried to claim their company offers customers the “silver-standard.” A luxury experience is ever hyped as “bronze-plated.” The current price of an ounce of gold? $1,813. Silver? Try $818. Bronze is going for $2.55 for an entire pound.

If anyone wants to say they are all equal, I’m willing to trade pounds of bronze for pounds of gold any time you want.

Some of the American athletes have brought up frustration that sometimes “winning silver” is equated to “losing gold.”

“Excuse my French, but the fact we’re not celebrating silver and bronze is bulls—,” swimmer Lily King said. “What is that about?

“You get to bring a medal home for your country,” King continued. “Just because we compete for the United States and maybe we have extremely high standards for this sort of thing, that doesn’t excuse the fact that we haven’t been celebrating silver and bronze as much as gold.”

Hey, go ahead and celebrate and be proud of the accomplishment. Very few of us get to be in the top three in the world at anything.

That doesn’t mean bronze is the new gold. Or that — face it — China shouldn't be on top of the medal chart.

 
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China won men's 4X100 relay group race, US didn't make it to the final
Haha, US media will then tell you final or not is not important. What important is to be No.6 in the group race.

Initially they said gold medal is not important. After that, they said medals not important. Guess they will soon retreat to the position that final round is not important.

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