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Swimming, beach volleyball and wrestling were letdowns for us
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Aug 11, 2024, 2:44 PM
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But track having an extremely strong showing made up for it
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Re: Swimming, beach volleyball and wrestling were letdowns for us
Aug 11, 2024, 4:48 PM
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I was really disappointed with the USA swimming this olympics. Gymnastics was once again really good, just wish our men gymnast would step it up. Track & Field really did save the day though. It feels like China dominates in the random events that we don't really compete in.
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Re: Swimming, beach volleyball and wrestling were letdowns for us
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Aug 11, 2024, 5:02 PM
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I didn’t watch diving this year - seems like that is one area where the Chinese seemingly always dominates.
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Re: Swimming, beach volleyball and wrestling were letdowns for us
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Aug 11, 2024, 5:14 PM
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that and the table tennis.....
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Re: Swimming, beach volleyball and wrestling were letdowns for us
Aug 11, 2024, 5:16 PM
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and weightlifting. They won 5 of the 10 gold medals in weightlifting. No other country won more than 1.
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We got lucky they didnt win 6 in weightlifting
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Aug 11, 2024, 7:35 PM
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Their heavily favorite lifter in one of the lighter men’s weights choked by failing to get a lift in after having a 10kg lead going into the last round. Hurt his leg or something
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Re: Swimming, beach volleyball and wrestling were letdowns for us
Aug 12, 2024, 11:31 AM
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Everybody dopes. Just look at how many of our own athletes have been "diagnosed" with asthma, ADHD, and other conditions that allow them to take performance-enhancing drugs that they wouldn't otherwise be allowed to use. Olympic drug tests are really IQ tests. Some people get caught, but most of them get away with it.
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Yeah the Chinese are tired of hearing that from us
Aug 12, 2024, 11:33 AM
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They’ve been firing back by claiming all out swimmers have “purple face” after the races and that in indicates doping.
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Re: Yeah the Chinese are tired of hearing that from us
Aug 12, 2024, 11:45 AM
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The US has had more Olympic medals taken away for doping than China has. Maybe they're just better at getting away with it than everyone else, but they're certainly no Russia.
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exactly. Also I think it's a bit of mild racism
Aug 12, 2024, 11:59 AM
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from some people, like a subconscious thought that Asian people can't be elite in sports, especially strength or speed ones.
I do think they have mastered a very systematic way of gathering as many medals as possible by targeting sports with lower competition laser focus on like weightlifting, artistic swimming, shooting, diving.
It feels a little mechanic but I don't think they are widespread cheating. It's just the affect of a country of 1.4 billion really caring about the results and pouring resources into it.
I think it's good we actually have a rival to challenge us in gold medals to replace to Soviet Union rival from decades back.
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China has had a bunch of swimmers test positive, but have somehow
Aug 12, 2024, 12:01 PM
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avoided punishment by claiming (on multiple occasions) that the swimmers unknowingly ate tainted food.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/12/olympics-china-swimming-doping-paris-2024/
It's interesting that it was kept quiet even from most members of WADA and not handled through the usual channels. I'm guessing some high-ups at WADA are being bribed by Chinese officials. Anyone familiar with FIFA should be aware of how corrupt international sports governing bodies have been (and likely still are). Most of the financial windfall from these positions has historically come from accepting bribes rather than salary.
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Its funny how we compete with China for most golds
Aug 11, 2024, 7:32 PM
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But we rarely actually compete with them head to head in any sports. We dominate the sports they suck in and they dominate the sports we suck in.
Only exception is some swimming events and some gymnastics. But China has fallen back in gymnastics recently.
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Re: Swimming, beach volleyball and wrestling were letdowns for us
Aug 11, 2024, 8:02 PM
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I remember how scared I was when I was trying out for the High School ping pong team…….no wait…….I remember going down to the local ping pong gymnasium and…….no wait……..why is ping pong an Olympic sport?
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Re: Swimming, beach volleyball and wrestling were letdowns for us
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Aug 11, 2024, 8:34 PM
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Table tennis for those of us who can play.
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Re: US ends on top of the medal count again
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Aug 11, 2024, 4:06 PM
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I would love to see their dominance in diving ended.
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Re: US ends on top of the medal count again
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Aug 11, 2024, 4:09 PM
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US would have won anyway. The IOC prioritizing Gold over everything else is dumb, and always has been. If the US only had one gold medal and China had 30 fewer total medals how does that make China the top country? Spoiler Alert: It doesn't. In no world does 90 out weigh 126.
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Yeah I agree. They give out silver and bronze for a reason
Aug 11, 2024, 4:23 PM
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But the rest of the world insists on listing by golds so May as wel beat them at their own game to
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Re: US ends on top of the medal count again
Aug 11, 2024, 5:33 PM
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Silver and bronze medals are just glorified participation trophies. Would you rather Clemson go to the CFP 3 times and never win it, or go only 1 time and win a national championship? I think most of us would prefer the latter.
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Re: US ends on top of the medal count again
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Aug 11, 2024, 8:35 PM
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If you ain't 1st, you're last.
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CHINA....NUMBA TAEN***
Aug 11, 2024, 8:01 PM
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How many of China's golds are from fake sports?
Aug 12, 2024, 11:49 AM
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Probably at least 1/3
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Interesting overall medal tables
Aug 12, 2024, 12:58 PM
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USA has garnered the most medals in the Summer Olympics (and most gold medals). And, we are 2nd in the most medals for the Winter Olympics (2nd in gold medals behind Norway). Of course, we have the most for the combined Olympics medals. 🥇🥈🥉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table
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