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Posted on 8/10/24 at 1:39 pm to Slippy
I know it’s not a favorite as an Olympic event, but we also have a guy in the semis of breaking.
A gold is a gold - like ping pong.
A gold is a gold - like ping pong.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 1:39 pm to Adam Banks
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Because we are busy playing real sports. Not trying to be the best at hobbies like ping pong.
So we lack the resources and citizens to where we don’t have any money or people to invest in ping pong, because we use it all on real sports?
Posted on 8/10/24 at 2:42 pm to TackySweater
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So we lack the resources and citizens to where we don’t have any money or people to invest in ping pong, because we use it all on real sports?
People with high levels of hand eye coordination in this country play baseball, tennis, golf etc.
If they can’t play those they get a real job.
It’s that simple.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 2:46 pm to Adam Banks
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People with high levels of hand eye coordination in this country play baseball, tennis, golf etc.
We can’t find anyone else in the country to compete at ping pong? Lol
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they can’t play those they get a real job.
Someone with a job can’t train enough to compete at ping pong? Lol
Posted on 8/10/24 at 2:50 pm to TackySweater
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Someone with a job can’t train enough to compete at ping pong? Lol
At an Olympic level apparently not.
Once again.
Ping pong is a hobby.
Because we aren’t commies we don’t base our national worth on racking up medals is sports adjacent activities
Posted on 8/10/24 at 3:12 pm to TackySweater
quote:Our youth sports development is usually geared towards teams. Football will probably change in the next generation with more affluent families moving away from it due to concern for brain injuries.
So we lack the resources and citizens to where we don’t have any money or people to invest in ping pong, because we use it all on real sports?
Let's also keep in mind that soccer took forever to catch on here. 40 years ago a few kids in metro areas got into soccer as the NASL was imploding. It wasn't a widespread youth sports until the '94 World Cup kickstarted the MLS. The 1999 women's team cemented it here as a co-ed sport. Our current national teams are the first that have come up completely through our robust system.
The other factor is a lot of these medals we don't win are hobbies for us but events with low economic barriers to entry for 3rd world countries. Just looking at Track, do you think it's a coincidence that Kenyan/African countries have been dominate with long distances? They don't need tracks or equipment to train.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 3:15 pm to Adam Banks
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base our national worth on racking up medals is sports adjacent activities
But the US has just the same opportunity to rack up these medals.
There’s not one gold medal tracker for “sports” and another for “hobbies”
They are all worth 1
Posted on 8/10/24 at 3:20 pm to MSUDawg98
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The other factor is a lot of these medals we don't win are hobbies for us
I understand. But how much investment/time/whatever would it take to have gold medal caliber US ping pong players?
Posted on 8/10/24 at 3:21 pm to TackySweater
Gold Zone is running a highlights video before they sign off for the last time in Paris at 4 CDT. If you've been watching it from Day 1, you know GZ has dramatically changed the way Olympic sports are broadcast.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 3:23 pm to MSUDawg98
Was this just a general statement or one meant for me?
Posted on 8/10/24 at 3:28 pm to TackySweater
A general statement towards the topic not you specifically.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 4:34 pm to Carolhdg
8/10/24 U S Medal Summary
Gold
Soccer, Women’s
Athletics, Women's100m Hurdles – Masai Russell
Athletics, Men’s 4x400m – Bailey, Norwood, Deadmon, Benjamin
Athletics, Women’s 4x400m – Little, McLaughlin-Levrone, Thomas, Holmes
Basketball, Men’s – Curry, Edwards, James, Durant, White, Haliburton, Tatum, Embiid, Holiday, Adebayo, Davis, Booker
Silver
Canoe Sprint – Women’s Canoe Single 200m – Nevin Harrison
Sport Climbing – Women’s Boulder & Lead – Brooke Raboutou
Athletics, High Jump – Shelby McEwen
Bronze
Athletics, Men’s 5000m – Grant Fisher
Wrestling, Men’s 74kg – Kyle Douglas Dake
Breaking, B-Boys - Victor
Gold
Soccer, Women’s
Athletics, Women's100m Hurdles – Masai Russell
Athletics, Men’s 4x400m – Bailey, Norwood, Deadmon, Benjamin
Athletics, Women’s 4x400m – Little, McLaughlin-Levrone, Thomas, Holmes
Basketball, Men’s – Curry, Edwards, James, Durant, White, Haliburton, Tatum, Embiid, Holiday, Adebayo, Davis, Booker
Silver
Canoe Sprint – Women’s Canoe Single 200m – Nevin Harrison
Sport Climbing – Women’s Boulder & Lead – Brooke Raboutou
Athletics, High Jump – Shelby McEwen
Bronze
Athletics, Men’s 5000m – Grant Fisher
Wrestling, Men’s 74kg – Kyle Douglas Dake
Breaking, B-Boys - Victor
Posted on 8/10/24 at 4:39 pm to WreckinRams05
We have 1 slam dunk in Women’s Basketball
1 fairly decent chance in women’s volleyball
Let’s win them both!
1 fairly decent chance in women’s volleyball
Let’s win them both!
Posted on 8/10/24 at 4:47 pm to TackySweater
The U.S. isn’t going to spend tens of millions of dollars setting up training centers and subsidizing athletes to win medals in bullshite “sports” that we decided (after spending more tens of millions in research) were the easiest to pick off gold medals in. Because that’s what China did.
The vast majority of their medals come in events that they determined were the least competitive and they built national training centers and pluck athletes from other sports to go train in these bullshite events like diving.
The U.S. isn’t going to do that. The U.S. dominates because we are the best sporting country in the world, not because we set up government programs designed to seek out easy gold medals.
The vast majority of their medals come in events that they determined were the least competitive and they built national training centers and pluck athletes from other sports to go train in these bullshite events like diving.
The U.S. isn’t going to do that. The U.S. dominates because we are the best sporting country in the world, not because we set up government programs designed to seek out easy gold medals.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 4:50 pm to tigerfan88
How big is not splitting the high jump now? Dude possibly, single handedly cost his country the 1st place spot over ego
This post was edited on 8/10/24 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 8/10/24 at 5:12 pm to tigerfan88
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The vast majority of their medals come in events that they determined were the least competitive
So these events are the least competitive, and yet it would take the US at least 20 million to challenge China? That just doesn’t make sense lol
Posted on 8/10/24 at 7:00 pm to TackySweater
I guess I really don't give a shite China wins all these medals in joke sports.
The ones that people come to see - T&F, Swimming, Hoops, Volleyball/BVB, soccer, etc, the US is essentially a giant behemoth in.
I'd much rather watch a week of arse kicking in T&F than 20 hours of fricking diving and ping pong.
The area where the US is giving away medals is events like Handball, which could easily be a gold medal team with just recently retired NFL QBs and MLB players.
The ones that people come to see - T&F, Swimming, Hoops, Volleyball/BVB, soccer, etc, the US is essentially a giant behemoth in.
I'd much rather watch a week of arse kicking in T&F than 20 hours of fricking diving and ping pong.
The area where the US is giving away medals is events like Handball, which could easily be a gold medal team with just recently retired NFL QBs and MLB players.
Posted on 8/10/24 at 7:33 pm to Jack Ruby
Mondo gold cost the USA
Posted on 8/10/24 at 7:36 pm to Jack Ruby
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I'd much rather watch a week of arse kicking in T&F than 20 hours of fricking diving and ping pon
Except that’s not what the Olympics are
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which could easily be a gold medal team with just recently retired NFL QBs and MLB players.
So why doesn’t it happen?
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