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.
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The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (2021)
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Admiral Beez
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Agreed. He’s our only male medal winner so far. The women are killing it OTOH.
EDIT, the men have two! Nice, https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/...n-damian-warner-pierce-lepage-aug-5-1.6130324
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AlbertC
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Looks like they're ramping it up now. Damian Warner just won gold in the decathlon.
The men's 4x100m relay team also have a good chance at a medal, especially with the Americans not being able to qualify into the finals.
Admiral Beez
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It's interesting how the Japanese are apologizing for not getting Gold.
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.
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.
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.
Towered
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It's interesting how the Japanese are apologizing for not getting Gold.
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.
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.
You should see the sheer vitriol on Chinese social media aimed even at athletes who finish second in sports where anything less than a dominant gold medal performance is considered borderline traitorous. 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.
As a Westerner accustomed to the values of individualism I find this level of nationalism incredibly objectionable.
AlbertC
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It's been 29 years since Canada has won this many gold medals (5 so far) at a summer Olympics.
dailyhive.com
It's been 29 years since Canada has won this many gold medals at the Summer Olympics | Offside
It's been nearly 30 years since Canada has reached the top of the podium this many times in a single Summer Olympics.
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Northern Light
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Add another Gold to the list; our Women's Soccer Team took the gold against Sweden, in heart stopping penalty-kicks that went to sudden death, 3-2.
AlvinofDiaspar
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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.
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Towered
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People need to be less serious, especially about trivial things such as sport.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Agreed - but of course Olympics is anything but trivial when you put nationalism into the mix.
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W. K. Lis
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Towered
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The thing I'm most impressed by with these Olympics is that San Marino has won 3 medals!
AlbertC
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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.
A new record for the highest medal tally at any non-boycotted Summer Olympics.
Damian Warner will be Canada's closing ceremony flag bearer.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Did anyone wonder how they turn those flowing sparks into the Olympic rings at the closing ceremony? Apparently it is all just special-effects by a Montreal-based company:
dronedj.com
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Tokyo Olympics closing ceremony: special effects, secret drone light show
While the stunning Olympic Rings light show at the Closing Ceremony came from special effects, drones did get to be a part of the event after all.
dronedj.com
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Northern Light
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Weird NL moment.
I just can't help myself when I see statistical assertions to look into them.
So....we did grab our largest total of medals for a non-boycotted Summer Games - True.
However, there were more medals awarded than at the previous games where we topped out at 22.
We hit 22 medals in 1996 in Atlanta.
In that year, 842 medals were awarded.
This year 1080 medals were awarded.
Ergo, to match our percentage from 1996, we would expect to win 28% more medals.
Which would be 28.
So, yes, a record haul, but not our best performance if ranked by percentage of medals available, won by Canada.
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I now return this thread to normal people who never would have bothered looking into that..............and would probably be correct in that choice.
LOL