AlbertC
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Great to see De Grasse win his first Olympic gold. Well deserved, and also at age 26 in the prime years of his career.
Agreed. He’s our only male medal winner so far. The women are killing it OTOH.Great to see De Grasse win his first Olympic gold. Well deserved, and also at age 26 in the prime years of his career.
Agreed. He’s our only male medal winner so far. The women are killing it OTOH.
It's interesting how the Japanese are apologizing for not getting Gold.
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Second Best in the World, but Still Saying Sorry (Published 2021)
At the Tokyo Olympics, Japanese athletes who fell short of gold have apologized profusely — sometimes, even after winning silver.www.nytimes.com
TOKYO — Kenichiro Fumita was crying so hard that he could barely get the words out. I ended up with this shameful result,” he said, bobbing his head abjectly. “I’m truly sorry.” Mr. Fumita, 25, had just won a silver medal.
“Americans are very good at finding reasons why you are great even if you fail,” said Shinobu Kitayama, a social psychologist at the University of Michigan. But in Japan, he said, “even if you succeed, you have to apologize.”
Tonight at 9pm the Karate begins. That's Japan's origin sport, and I expect it'll be a national reckoning if they don't take Gold. It's akin to Canada not winning in international hockey.
The Chinese table tennis doubles team losing to the Japanese team in the final is a great example of the brutal shaming that's going on.
You will need a bit of a historical context for the vitrolic response (as unjustifiable and un-sportsman) to this one - table tennis (along with badminton) are considered "national sports"; losing is bad enough; losing to an archenemy is downright a national shame level of humiliation.
AoD
Agreed - but of course Olympics is anything but trivial when you put nationalism into the mix.People need to be less serious, especially about trivial things such as sport.
Canada added another gold to finish off the games with 24 medals in total: 7 gold, 6 silver and 11 bronze.
A new record for the highest medal tally at any non-boycotted Summer Olympics.
Damian Warner will be Canada's closing ceremony flag bearer.