The Official 2024 Paris Summer Olympics Thread (from July 26 - August 11) - Closing Ceremony replay at 7pm EST

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They gonna have all interesting 5x5 basketball matches on Tuesday. This damn schedule is real bad.
 

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lower barrier to entry does not trump actual difficulty and shorter age window.

Maria Gorokhovskaya won all around champion at age 30

The 100m has a short age window as well, the oldest 100m champ was linford christie at 32

Difficulty? How many people have ran 100m at the times bolt have? Yeah thats right only bolt.

bolt owns the OR and wr in 100, 200 and mens relay
 

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So what's the situation with china? They were clearly doping in swimming competitions breaking records and shyt. Olympics are gonna ignore that shyt or it takes quite some time to find it out?
Yes and yes
 

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Maria Gorokhovskaya won all around champion at age 30

The 100m has a short age window as well, the oldest 100m champ was linford christie at 32

Difficulty? How many people have ran 100m at the times bolt have? Yeah thats right only bolt. Simone biles d only has the highest score in floor exercise, but not vault, uneven bars or balance beam

bolt owns the OR and wr in 100, 200 and mens relay

the actual athleticism required is way higher no debate… sprinting is just quick twitch

times yeah yeah but PEDs

also we can take the median age of all sprinters and all gymnasts and lets guess which is lower.
 

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What does china gain from those doping medals? To show more propaganda how great their country is? :russ:

Majority of their population lives in bird cages with no TV or internet connection. shyt. They probably boosted the amount of medals for their viewership. Or painting their silver/bronze medals in gold when they are back home in china.
 

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the actual athleticism required is way higher no debate… sprinting is just quick twitch

times yeah yeah but PEDs

also we can take the median age of all sprinters and all gymnasts and lets guess which is lower.


There are gymnasts 15, 16 that compete in the Olympics, of course there age will be younger.

I love this sprinting is just quick twitch, you can train every day for 10 hours for years and still not run the 100m under 10 seconds.
 

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What does china gain from those doping medals? To show more propaganda how great their country is? :russ:

Majority of their population lives in bird cages with no TV or internet connection. shyt. They probably boosted the amount of medals for their viewership. Or painting their silver/bronze medals in gold when they are back home in china.

This is false
In 2008, China became the country with the largest population on the Internet and, as of 2024, has remained so. As of December 2024, 1.09 billion (77.5% of the country's total population) use internet in China.
 

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I rly dont trust China and Russia.
What does china gain from those doping medals? To show more propaganda how great their country is? :russ:

Majority of their population lives in bird cages with no TV or internet connection. shyt. They probably boosted the amount of medals for their viewership. Or painting their silver/bronze medals in gold when they are back home in china.
Never did trust China or Russia in sporting events
 

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I rly dont trust China and Russia.

Never did trust China or Russia in sporting events
Most of russians are banned from this year's olympics. I guess it's china's turn to hold it down for doping medals. This is one of the better olympics so far when one of the cheating countries is limited to a very small amount of athletes.
 
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