Tokyo 2020 Paralympics: Record 19 medals thus far!!!! Amazing

[coffee_rules]

32 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

 

Well, after moving to Hyderabad 5 years back, I realized mentioning Ranchi doesn't ring bell for everyone. Of course, members here will know for sure. Mentioning Jharkhand along with Ranchi has just become a habit.

Not after 2004, mention of Ranchi should make one ask if you are a neighbor of Tony!

[Mariyam]

33 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

 

Well, after moving to Hyderabad 5 years back, I realized mentioning Ranchi doesn't ring bell for everyone. Of course, members here will know for sure. Mentioning Jharkhand along with Ranchi has just become a habit.

Oh no.

My commiserations.

 

[Trichromatic]

37 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Not after 2004, mention of Ranchi should make one ask if you are a neighbor of Tony!

 

I was under same impression, but not everyone follows cricket like that.

[coffee_rules]

3 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

 

I was under same impression, but not everyone follows cricket like that.

True for many he might as well be from Vada Chennai

[Dery]

A small country like Cuba is 14th with 7 golds 

[Vilander]

1 hour ago, Dery said:

A small country like Cuba is 14th with 7 golds 

4 gold in boxing 2 in wrestling 1 in canoe sprint.  Bronze silver in athelitics. Not bad. Boxing wrestling. 

[cowboysfan]

2 hours ago, Dery said:

A small country like Cuba is 14th with 7 golds 

unlike india they win gold in games they prioritize like wrestling and boxing while our world champions is shooting, archery etc. simply cant cope with the pressure of Olympics.Chopra was so relaxed and confident throughout the qualification and finals that I was amazed.

[rkt.india]

6 minutes ago, cowboysfan said:

unlike india they win gold in games they prioritize like wrestling and boxing while our world champions is shooting, archery etc. simply cant cope with the pressure of Olympics.Chopra was so relaxed and confident throughout the qualification and finals that I was amazed.

Our world champions are fake because top players from top countries don't participate in them. Level of competition and pressure in those championship is not Olympics level.

[Lord]

5 hours ago, Mariyam said:

Good that you specified.

Lest we mistake it for Ranchi, Brazil? 

 

good for you he didnt say Patna :P

 

https://www.thequint.com/neon/places-around-the-world-that-share-names-with-indian-cities#read-more

[kepler37b]

5 hours ago, Mariyam said:

Oh no.

My commiserations.

 

you hate the land of golts? 

[Lone Wolf]

Looking closely at BMX racing...  I think lot of chappris & velle youth Can do well there.  Not sure lot of people in India know about the sport. 

Need some kind of Government awareness schemes or something like that. 

PM modi launched some Khelo India scheme a while back..  This sport needs to be introduced there. 

Perhaps can open a short cut to a medal. 

[cowboysfan]

1 hour ago, rkt.india said:

Our world champions are fake because top players from top countries don't participate in them. Level of competition and pressure in those championship is not Olympics level.

you are right.in archery the koreans were missing from the world championships before the Olympics and a lot of Indians won those events. 

[kepler37b]

Congrats USA. The bat eaters have been set right. 

[RedFever]

15 hours ago, Gollum said:

The look on Ravi's and Bajrang's face is what drives you to win Gold.

[Gollum]

 

One of the non-Indian athletes I enjoyed following this time was the Uzbek giant, Jalolov. Top boxer, and a likable person. Super Heavyweight but moved around the ring like a Flyweight. So much better than the others. 

 

Btw Lovlina's vanquisher too crushed her opponent 5-0 in the final. She and Satish really gave good account of themselves in the ring, just unlucky to run into these beasts a round or two earlier than India would have liked. 

Edited August 9, 2021 by Gollum

[Gollum]

2020 Summer Olympics medal table

Rank	Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	39	41	33	113
2	China	38	32	18	88
3	Japan*	27	14	17	58
4	Great Britain	22	21	22	65
5	ROC	20	28	23	71
6	Australia	17	7	22	46
7	Netherlands	10	12	14	36
8	France	10	12	11	33
9	Germany	10	11	16	37
10	Italy	10	10	20	40
11	Canada	7	6	11	24
12	Brazil	7	6	8	21
13	New Zealand	7	6	7	20
14	Cuba	7	3	5	15
15	Hungary	6	7	7	20
16	South Korea	6	4	10	20
17	Poland	4	5	5	14
18	Czech Republic	4	4	3	11
19	Kenya	4	4	2	10
20	Norway	4	2	2	8
21	Jamaica	4	1	4	9
22	Spain	3	8	6	17
23	Sweden	3	6	0	9
24	Switzerland	3	4	6	13
25	Denmark	3	4	4	11
26	Croatia	3	3	2	8
27	Iran	3	2	2	7
28	Serbia	3	1	5	9
29	Belgium	3	1	3	7
30	Bulgaria	3	1	2	6
31	Slovenia	3	1	1	5
32	Uzbekistan	3	0	2	5
33	Georgia	2	5	1	8
34	Chinese Taipei	2	4	6	12
35	Turkey	2	2	9	13
36	Greece	2	1	1	4
	Uganda	2	1	1	4
38	Ecuador	2	1	0	3
39	Ireland	2	0	2	4
	Israel	2	0	2	4
41	Qatar	2	0	1	3
42	Bahamas	2	0	0	2
	Kosovo	2	0	0	2
44	Ukraine	1	6	12	19
45	Belarus	1	3	3	7
46	Romania	1	3	0	4
	Venezuela	1	3	0	4
48	India	1	2	4	7
49	Hong Kong	1	2	3	6
50	Philippines	1	2	1	4
	Slovakia	1	2	1	4
52	South Africa	1	2	0	3
53	Austria	1	1	5	7
54	Egypt	1	1	4	6
55	Indonesia	1	1	3	5
56	Ethiopia	1	1	2	4
	Portugal	1	1	2	4
58	Tunisia	1	1	0	2
59	Estonia	1	0	1	2
	Fiji	1	0	1	2
	Latvia	1	0	1	2
	Thailand	1	0	1	2
63	Bermuda	1	0	0	1
	Morocco	1	0	0	1
	Puerto Rico	1	0	0	1
66	Colombia	0	4	1	5
67	Azerbaijan	0	3	4	7
68	Dominican Republic	0	3	2	5
69	Armenia	0	2	2	4
70	Kyrgyzstan	0	2	1	3
71	Mongolia	0	1	3	4
72	Argentina	0	1	2	3
	San Marino	0	1	2	3
74	Jordan	0	1	1	2
	Malaysia	0	1	1	2
	Nigeria	0	1	1	2
77	Bahrain	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Namibia	0	1	0	1
	North Macedonia	0	1	0	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	1	0	1
	Turkmenistan	0	1	0	1
83	Kazakhstan	0	0	8	8
84	Mexico	0	0	4	4
85	Finland	0	0	2	2
86	Botswana	0	0	1	1
	Burkina Faso	0	0	1	1
	Ghana	0	0	1	1
	Grenada	0	0	1	1
	Ivory Coast	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Syria	0	0	1	1
Totals (93 teams)		340	338	402	1080

 

 

Thanks to Neeraj's gold India finished above: South Africa, Philippines, Austria, Slovakia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Portugal, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Thailand, Colombia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Argentina, Mongolia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Mexico, Finland, Ghana, Latvia, Estonia, Hong Kong, and a number of West Asian countries, Central Asian 'stans'.

 

When it comes to total number of medals we were greater than or equal to Iran, Belgium, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Slovenia, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Ecuador, Belarus, Venezuela, Romania......just behind Sweden, Norway, Jamaica, Serbia, Croatia, 

 

Not bad at all!!!!

[SujitPrakash]

Tokyo Olympics 2021: Marathon king Eliud Kipchoge rated the greatest athlete ever

 

 

After winning the men's Olympic marathon at Tokyo 2020, Eliud Kipchoge disarmingly remarked that he'd "wanted to test my fitness" and gauge how he was "feeling".

 

With around 12km of the race remaining, Kipchoge pulled clear of the lead pack to cross the line in a time of two hours, eight minutes and 38 seconds -- more than a minute clear of the Netherlands' Abdi Nageeye in second and Belgium's Bashir Abdi in third.

 

By winning Sunday's race the 36-year-old Kenyan became the third man to successfully defend an Olympic marathon title.

 

Kipchoge's victory completed a marathon double for Kenya after Peres Jepchirchir's gold in the women's race the day before. He also follows in the footsteps of Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila and East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski as a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion.

 

"I wanted to create a space (between the other runners) to show the world that this is a beautiful race," Kipchoge later said, having been all alone on the finishing straight when he hit the tape, thanks to his utter dominance over his closest rivals. "I wanted to show that we have hope in the future."

 

https://wwos.nine.com.au/olympics/tokyo-olympics-2021-eliud-kipchoge-greatest-athlete-ever-performance-coach-says/28a336f1-a5e9-4539-bf5e-13534f2f0251

[Gollum]

Scumbag

 

[Norman]

43 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Thanks to Neeraj's gold India finished above: South Africa, Philippines, Austria, Slovakia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Portugal, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Thailand, Colombia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Argentina, Mongolia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Mexico, Finland, Ghana, Latvia, Estonia, Hong Kong, and a number of West Asian countries, Central Asian 'stans'.

 

Don't you think the ranking system is a bit flawed? I mean yeah.. gold is what everyone plays for but how is it fair that a country with a gold in one sport (Bermuda, Morocco, Puerto Rico) is ranked higher than another with multiple (7-8 times more) medals in multiple sports (Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan)? 

 

I think they should introduce a system where Gold=3, Silver=2, Bronze=1 or something like that. 

 

Although I don't think countries below the top 10 really care about their rankings so never mind. 

[Gollum]

 

Looks good, but why is this in the Olympics?