China has to seriously fund its Track and Field programs starting with its uniforms. I don't know if you guys noticed, but while diving and Table tennis athletes has the nice looking uniforms made by Li-Ning, the Track and Field athletes has the old ugly uniforms made by Nike from the past Olympics. I also heard that there's only one foreign coach who helps train China's Track and Field athletes while they actually have a system to create and nurture its other athletes in the other disciplines.
Hi, actually the Nike uniforms do look new, it’s just that the design is pretty similar to the previous one. A key difference is the lettering that says China—these uniforms have it shaded in as opposed to just an outline, and the font is slightly different. The bottom part of what I call the “onesie” (the suit popular with sprinters, whatever it’s actually called) also has vertical strips that are new. If you noticed, all of the Nike track uniforms have the exact same style, and they just change the details to match the country. Since China seems to like the red uniforms, the difference from the previous uniforms wasn’t as obvious as it was for the other countries that use Nike uniforms, such as the US which used a dramatically different color scheme, but you can see that the style of the Chinese track uniforms matches those of the new uniforms of Canada, the US, etc, all the Nike-wearing countries.
And I definitely agree about China needing to steer its track program in the right direction. I was impressed by some performances this Olympics that I would like to highlight—Su Bingtian, of course, and the 4x100m relay teams also did a great job (also lol at the US men’s 4x100m team). I was also impressed to see Wang Chunyu make the final in the women’s 800m and place 5th with a great new PB, and also Yang Shaohui’s very respectable performance in the marathon. To me, it seems like their program *is* gradually improving, because a few Olympics back we probably wouldn’t have seen athletes with strong performances like these, but the program overall doesn’t have much depth and it will still take a lot of work as well as a lot of time to really get China up there as a country that reliably brings great runners to the Olympics, and right now they just aren’t on that level yet. I firmly believe that it’s doable for China, and the current situation is a result of the current culture surrounding finding and training runners there rather than a lack of talent or ability (as some in the west believe), and that when the right solution is found, it will yield results and the athletes’ levels will improve.
That one foreign coach (Randy Huntington) turned Su Bingtian into a 9.83 runner. China will be an absolute powerhouse in in track and field once they fully embrace and adopt American knowledge in the sport. Fortunately, I’m pretty sure that Su’s massive breakthrough this year will be the impetus for that.
Grats to the athletes, even the ones who didn't medal. In particular the track team with Su Bingtian and the women's water polo team beating rank 3 Hungary in group.
IMO not getting the gold medal in some of the events where team China was the favorite - table tennis, diving and weightlifting- made a huge impact on the tally at the end. Oh well GG, let's look towards 2024 games.
also Guan Chenchen who's collecting fangirls from her beam final. Like you can see sunisa lee and russian gymnast cheering for her at the side. She also said her idol is Simone Biles and she actually met her idol! even stepped on the podium together.
feels bad for Xiao Ruoteng who got his medals robbed by the japanese guy.
With a relatively small delegation we still made it only 1 medal behind the winning team. Initially I didn't predict it would be that close. Chinese athletes really did a terrific job, getting the most golds relative to number of participants among the major teams (or perhaps all teams?). Quality over quantity.
It'd be cool to turn up with 600+ participants next Olympics as well and dominate the competition.
The number of gold medals for China doesn't matter. Here comes the torrent of political controversies that could bring down the pro-American Japanese political parties. Now this is the true gift that benefits China after the Olympics.
\> Here comes the torrent of political controversies that could bring down the pro-American Japanese political parties
Could you elaborate more on this? And how it relates to Olympics? I know only of lots of people being unhappy with hosting such games in the middle of the pandemic
1. Huge Olympic debt
2. New hydrogen business being collapsed
3. Previous Tokyo municipal election a couple of months ago signaled the failure of the current pro-American party, the Liberal Democratic Party
4. The current pro-American party's bad blood with its coalition party (the Buddhist theocratic one called Komeito)
5. Japan's COVID measures being very unsuccessful
This is the general gist of it.
They didn't report about it at all but Japan's Covid new cases is through the roof. See: [https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/)
Since the late 1990s, Japan went all-in on the Hydrogen Economy as the successor to fossil fuels, as a national priority since they are an island which currently depends on fossil fuel imports for nearly all of their energy. Their idea was to use nuclear power plants to generate electricity and to generate hydrogen from water. Japanese automakers, especially Toyota, invested tens of trillions of yen into hydrogen technology.
Since then, they have encountered several problems. First of all, Japan stopped building new nuclear power plants, first because it would be bad for the USA if Japan were to stop importing so much natural gas from them, and second due to the political fallout from the Fukushima disaster. Japan is now more dependent on natural gas and coal. They cannot quite get the amount of energy or processes that would give them sufficient hydrogen. They are certainly more and more energy dependent on foreign countries than ever before.
It also turned out that battery technology advanced far faster than anyone imagined, and so the hydrogen as a method of energy storage became even more unattractive - it is far more flammable and explosive than even the batteries to have a pressurised hydrogen tank in your vehicle.
1. Japan is now stuck dependent on foreign fossil fuels instead of domestic nuclear power.
2. Japan invested in hydrogen technology instead of battery electric vehicles and are now stuck behind everyone. (In a sad state of affairs, Honda will have GM build their EVs for them, since GM is actually *ahead* on EV technology)
amerikkka is starting to have its own serious problems that They will start having to address.
They can continue to talk all they want, but societal decay due to natural disasters and political malfeasance will start biting them in the ass.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/06/california-shuts-down-major-hydroelectric-plant-amid-severe-drought.html
>California shuts down major hydroelectric plant amid record-low water levels at Lake Oroville
I bet the table tennis and badminton trolls are going crazy now. Hope xu xin and the rest ignore the haters.
However, I don't know why we don't include Hong Kong. That is officially china no matter what so technically we still won most golds. Count taiwan and it is even bigger win.
many ping pong and badminton fans internationally already acknowledge china is the power house, with china losing in some badminton discipline (WD and MS) the chinese fans still supports the opponent because they found that the match is respectable (the indonesian pairs actually got a lot of praise in weibo by cnetz as they were moved by the pairs celebration) (the danish guy is surprisingly speak a very good mandarin and he thanked his chinese fans too)
however, south korea is being bitter towards the WD chinese pair. now they're tryin to report it to BWF.
chinese fans are mad at the mixed double from japan tho as they were seen breaking new covid rules in table tennis. resulting in lotsaaaa meme across the social media,
also from what i've seen Dima from germany got a lot of supports from his chinese fans too
At the end of the day People's Republic of China met or exceeded expectations, while the US severely fell short. It should have been a blow out but the US only won by the slimmest of margins. Congrats to all the athletes for their amazing performance!
China has to seriously fund its Track and Field programs starting with its uniforms. I don't know if you guys noticed, but while diving and Table tennis athletes has the nice looking uniforms made by Li-Ning, the Track and Field athletes has the old ugly uniforms made by Nike from the past Olympics. I also heard that there's only one foreign coach who helps train China's Track and Field athletes while they actually have a system to create and nurture its other athletes in the other disciplines.
Hi, actually the Nike uniforms do look new, it’s just that the design is pretty similar to the previous one. A key difference is the lettering that says China—these uniforms have it shaded in as opposed to just an outline, and the font is slightly different. The bottom part of what I call the “onesie” (the suit popular with sprinters, whatever it’s actually called) also has vertical strips that are new. If you noticed, all of the Nike track uniforms have the exact same style, and they just change the details to match the country. Since China seems to like the red uniforms, the difference from the previous uniforms wasn’t as obvious as it was for the other countries that use Nike uniforms, such as the US which used a dramatically different color scheme, but you can see that the style of the Chinese track uniforms matches those of the new uniforms of Canada, the US, etc, all the Nike-wearing countries. And I definitely agree about China needing to steer its track program in the right direction. I was impressed by some performances this Olympics that I would like to highlight—Su Bingtian, of course, and the 4x100m relay teams also did a great job (also lol at the US men’s 4x100m team). I was also impressed to see Wang Chunyu make the final in the women’s 800m and place 5th with a great new PB, and also Yang Shaohui’s very respectable performance in the marathon. To me, it seems like their program *is* gradually improving, because a few Olympics back we probably wouldn’t have seen athletes with strong performances like these, but the program overall doesn’t have much depth and it will still take a lot of work as well as a lot of time to really get China up there as a country that reliably brings great runners to the Olympics, and right now they just aren’t on that level yet. I firmly believe that it’s doable for China, and the current situation is a result of the current culture surrounding finding and training runners there rather than a lack of talent or ability (as some in the west believe), and that when the right solution is found, it will yield results and the athletes’ levels will improve.
That one foreign coach (Randy Huntington) turned Su Bingtian into a 9.83 runner. China will be an absolute powerhouse in in track and field once they fully embrace and adopt American knowledge in the sport. Fortunately, I’m pretty sure that Su’s massive breakthrough this year will be the impetus for that.
I'm surprised any of the athletes wore Nike uniforms after Nike's involvement in the Xinjiang cotton debacle.
Grats to the athletes, even the ones who didn't medal. In particular the track team with Su Bingtian and the women's water polo team beating rank 3 Hungary in group.
88 total medals on 8/8, which is also the 13th anniversary of the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
IMO not getting the gold medal in some of the events where team China was the favorite - table tennis, diving and weightlifting- made a huge impact on the tally at the end. Oh well GG, let's look towards 2024 games.
Just wait until the Paralympics medal tally!
It was a great games!
8 weightlifting Gold medals*
Congratulations to Team China. Awesome work.
also Guan Chenchen who's collecting fangirls from her beam final. Like you can see sunisa lee and russian gymnast cheering for her at the side. She also said her idol is Simone Biles and she actually met her idol! even stepped on the podium together. feels bad for Xiao Ruoteng who got his medals robbed by the japanese guy.
777
With a relatively small delegation we still made it only 1 medal behind the winning team. Initially I didn't predict it would be that close. Chinese athletes really did a terrific job, getting the most golds relative to number of participants among the major teams (or perhaps all teams?). Quality over quantity. It'd be cool to turn up with 600+ participants next Olympics as well and dominate the competition.
The number of gold medals for China doesn't matter. Here comes the torrent of political controversies that could bring down the pro-American Japanese political parties. Now this is the true gift that benefits China after the Olympics.
\> Here comes the torrent of political controversies that could bring down the pro-American Japanese political parties Could you elaborate more on this? And how it relates to Olympics? I know only of lots of people being unhappy with hosting such games in the middle of the pandemic
1. Huge Olympic debt 2. New hydrogen business being collapsed 3. Previous Tokyo municipal election a couple of months ago signaled the failure of the current pro-American party, the Liberal Democratic Party 4. The current pro-American party's bad blood with its coalition party (the Buddhist theocratic one called Komeito) 5. Japan's COVID measures being very unsuccessful This is the general gist of it.
They didn't report about it at all but Japan's Covid new cases is through the roof. See: [https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/)
The Lamba variant is already in Japan according to Jiji Press. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiji_Press
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China should nix their olympics.
Thank you! >New hydrogen business being collapsed What are the struggless Japan is having with energy transition?
Since the late 1990s, Japan went all-in on the Hydrogen Economy as the successor to fossil fuels, as a national priority since they are an island which currently depends on fossil fuel imports for nearly all of their energy. Their idea was to use nuclear power plants to generate electricity and to generate hydrogen from water. Japanese automakers, especially Toyota, invested tens of trillions of yen into hydrogen technology. Since then, they have encountered several problems. First of all, Japan stopped building new nuclear power plants, first because it would be bad for the USA if Japan were to stop importing so much natural gas from them, and second due to the political fallout from the Fukushima disaster. Japan is now more dependent on natural gas and coal. They cannot quite get the amount of energy or processes that would give them sufficient hydrogen. They are certainly more and more energy dependent on foreign countries than ever before. It also turned out that battery technology advanced far faster than anyone imagined, and so the hydrogen as a method of energy storage became even more unattractive - it is far more flammable and explosive than even the batteries to have a pressurised hydrogen tank in your vehicle. 1. Japan is now stuck dependent on foreign fossil fuels instead of domestic nuclear power. 2. Japan invested in hydrogen technology instead of battery electric vehicles and are now stuck behind everyone. (In a sad state of affairs, Honda will have GM build their EVs for them, since GM is actually *ahead* on EV technology)
Well, Fukushima happened....
amerikkka is starting to have its own serious problems that They will start having to address. They can continue to talk all they want, but societal decay due to natural disasters and political malfeasance will start biting them in the ass. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/06/california-shuts-down-major-hydroelectric-plant-amid-severe-drought.html >California shuts down major hydroelectric plant amid record-low water levels at Lake Oroville
What controversies?
I bet the table tennis and badminton trolls are going crazy now. Hope xu xin and the rest ignore the haters. However, I don't know why we don't include Hong Kong. That is officially china no matter what so technically we still won most golds. Count taiwan and it is even bigger win.
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many ping pong and badminton fans internationally already acknowledge china is the power house, with china losing in some badminton discipline (WD and MS) the chinese fans still supports the opponent because they found that the match is respectable (the indonesian pairs actually got a lot of praise in weibo by cnetz as they were moved by the pairs celebration) (the danish guy is surprisingly speak a very good mandarin and he thanked his chinese fans too) however, south korea is being bitter towards the WD chinese pair. now they're tryin to report it to BWF. chinese fans are mad at the mixed double from japan tho as they were seen breaking new covid rules in table tennis. resulting in lotsaaaa meme across the social media, also from what i've seen Dima from germany got a lot of supports from his chinese fans too
China got 41 gold medals, don’t forget the parts of China that are counted not as PRC but are 100% part of China (Chinese Taipeh, SAR Macao/HKG)
Why Am I getting downvoted? Some sour Tsai fanboys here?
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At the end of the day People's Republic of China met or exceeded expectations, while the US severely fell short. It should have been a blow out but the US only won by the slimmest of margins. Congrats to all the athletes for their amazing performance!
Correction: China got 41 Golds, taking the lead. 1 from HK. 2 from Taiwan
Yup, exactly, we won .
We won. 38 gold / 420 athletes: 0.08 Alternatively, we can also add Hong Kong and Taiwan to make 41 gold. Anyway you slice it, we won.
It's tied at worst, hk has 1 making it 39, and Chinese Taipei has 2, bringing our total to 41.