Paris Olympics 2024 Discussion Thread

[Sgattick10]

On 8/15/2024 at 3:44 AM, vvvslaxman said:

Pakistan can send this guy for break dance lol

 

 

Did you mean the white shalwar guy 

[Singh bling]

14-year-old sprinter breaks world record as fans claim Gout Gout rivalry will be 'Ronaldo vs Messi' of 100m

 

https://www.sportbible.com/athletics/divine-iheme-gout-gout-023699-20240827

 

Future of Sprinting Australia vs Great Britain 

[Singh bling]

Yao Ming: the basketball giant made in China by order of the state

 

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball/yao-ming-the-basketball-giant-made-in-china-by-order-of-the-state-20060119-gdmsz0.html

 

Just read the above article. If the above is true no wonder China win so many medals. Forcing tall people into sports then forcing to marry them and forcing the kid to become sportsman.

[saransh]

Avani lekhara wins gold in women 10m air rifle.

[Sgattick10]

Well done 

[Gollum]

20 hours ago, Singh bling said:

Yao Ming: the basketball giant made in China by order of the state

 

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball/yao-ming-the-basketball-giant-made-in-china-by-order-of-the-state-20060119-gdmsz0.html

 

Just read the above article. If the above is true no wonder China win so many medals. Forcing tall people into sports then forcing to marry them and forcing the kid to become sportsman.

 

Little children are separated from their parents and put through intense training and doping programs. They are like robots with no other purpose in life. 

 

Same true with USSR, East Germany, Cuba, many former communist states, Central Asian 'stans'. 

 

Can you imagine this happening in the subcontinent? People would riot and rightly so. 

[Trichromatic]

On 8/30/2024 at 4:02 AM, Singh bling said:

Yao Ming: the basketball giant made in China by order of the state

 

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball/yao-ming-the-basketball-giant-made-in-china-by-order-of-the-state-20060119-gdmsz0.html

 

Just read the above article. If the above is true no wonder China win so many medals. Forcing tall people into sports then forcing to marry them and forcing the kid to become sportsman.

 

It says that they were humiliated before this program started as they could only 5 golds.

 

So even without such programs they were winning 5 golds.

[AuxiliA]

Even with no arms she shoots better than our regular archers and unlike them she's clutch too. Massive respect for Sheetal Devi. 

 

 

 

[LordPrabhzy]

On 8/30/2024 at 7:55 PM, Gollum said:

 

Little children are separated from their parents and put through intense training and doping programs. They are like robots with no other purpose in life. 

 

Same true with USSR, East Germany, Cuba, many former communist states, Central Asian 'stans'. 

 

Can you imagine this happening in the subcontinent? People would riot and rightly so. 

yeah then dont complain if we dont win medals..

 

Either we have:

 

1. China/USSR style programmes OR

2. a very high standard of living country like US or Aus which promotes sports and has infrastructure and money available to all to participate and excel.

 

We are nowhere close to either of these and people slit wrists every 4 years crying about not having more medals

[LordPrabhzy]

India already on 15 medals... 5 more to beat the 2020 Tokyo haul.

 

Seems like since the Modi gov, he paralympic athletes have smashed the medal hauls, 36 of the 45 medals in history of Paralympics for India have come since 2016

[Gollum]

7 minutes ago, LordPrabhzy said:

yeah then dont complain if we dont win medals..

 

Either we have:

 

1. China/USSR style programmes OR

2. a very high standard of living country like US or Aus which promotes sports and has infrastructure and money available to all to participate and excel.

 

We are nowhere close to either of these and people slit wrists every 4 years crying about not having more medals

No need of extremes.

 

Our target should be to reach the level of Iran, Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey etc in the next 10-15 years. Consistent double digit medals tally with 2-3 gold medals. 

Edited September 3 by Gollum

[Aiden]

[saransh]

9 hours ago, Aiden said:

Another Pakistani troll 

[Gollum]

Asian CT started yesterday.

 

Korea-Japan 5-5 draw

Malaysia-Pak 2-2 draw

India beat China 3-0

 

We are playing 8 youngsters/rookies in the squad.

[Gollum]

For those in India, Sony Liv is broadcasting this event. Please tune in, support Indian Hockey.

[bharathh]

Just wanted to make a callout to our paralympics team. They accomplished everything that we were hoping from the Olympic squad in Paris. Kudos to our paralympians! They more than doubled our overall medals tally in just one Olympics. Hope they go from strength to strength and get all the plaudits and prizes they are due.