2020/2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics

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MixedReality

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sinophilia said:
Ahh these unlucky streaks are happening too damn often.

Meng Wei is the world record holder (and qualifying world record holder!) in women's skeet shooting.

She came into this and blew through the competition during qualifiers again, equaling her previous qualifying world record.

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Then during the finals (medaling) she has her worst performance ever..


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This is some really unlucky stuff. Diving, table tennis, multiple shooting and archery events, many of the qualifiers during rowing and other similar types where Chinese set world records or place first in qualifiers.... you'd almost think someone is poisoning them with something right before the finals lol...

Only joking, but maybe they should be checked just in case haha.
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It’s not unlucky, it is inability to win under finals pressure. They can do it when the pressure is off but mentally they can’t handle it under pressure of a final. Mental skills coaching need to be much better.
 
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B.I.B.

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MixedReality said:
Finally someone wins a gold medal. The last 24 hours have been a disaster for China in the gold medal race. Diving, weightlifting, swimming, table tennis (WTF!!!), shooting all lost gold.
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A little while back there was a discussion on Chinas new Olympic selection criteria and how it would impact on China's medal chances.
 
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getready said:
Naomi Osaka just lost, Barty the world no.1 already lost in the first round. It happens to the best athletes. Sometimes it's not choking rather the opponent simply brought out the best performance she/he is capable of. And that is enough to beat your regular performance level.
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Exactly. There's no such thing as a certain win. I also wouldn't be so quick to count China out in the swimming and track and field events.
 
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sndef888

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Dolcevita said:
Seriously Each weightlifting weight level deserves 3 gold medals. One each for Snatch, Clean and Jerk, and another for Total.
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USA: Nope, we need more swimming medals, despite already having 37 for some reason. Weightlifting should be reduced by 1 event too. Also we should limit max number of weightlifting athletes to 8 per country (even though we send 50 to swimming)

The US is a legal cheat at the olympics, basically like how lobbying is legal corruption
 
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