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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 12, 2024 3:50:15 GMT -5
China has a habit of claiming the medals of Taipei and Hong Kong. I'm sure they will do so again and declare victory. Who cares what China claims? Although, Hong Kong is part of China. The UK gave it back to them 25 years ago. |
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Post by gobruins on Aug 12, 2024 3:53:17 GMT -5
Sarcastically given some of the pastimes that are masquerading as sports I'm just wondering when bowling and billiards will be added. No break dancing in LA. They are adding flag football and squash and bringing back softball, baseball, lacrosse and crickett. I also heard LA is adding obstacle racing like American ninja warrior style Breaking is only only event so far that’s confirmed excluded in 2028, boxing hasn’t been approved yet either Obstacle Racing is not going to be its own sport. It is going to be one of the components of Modern Pentathlon. Replacing Equestrian. |
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Post by gobruins on Aug 12, 2024 3:54:47 GMT -5
China has a habit of claiming the medals of Taipei and Hong Kong. I'm sure they will do so again and declare victory. Under that system, US can claim Canada's medals.  |
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 12, 2024 4:15:48 GMT -5
Modern Pentathlon has an interesting history. The original pentathlon was composed of 5 different military disciplines, like running, wrestling, and throwing javelins. The "modern" version was supposed to be spiritually the same for a cavalry officer, with horse riding, fencing, swimming, shooting, and running. In recent years they turned the shooting and running events into a biathlon-style running AND shooting event, and added a second fencing round.
Now they are getting rid of the increasingly anachronistic (and expensive) horse riding event and replacing it with a "ninja warrior" obstacle course.
If they wanted to keep it a showcase of modern military skills, maybe they should have included remote drone flying instead.
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Post by bbg95 on Aug 12, 2024 8:12:40 GMT -5
China has a habit of claiming the medals of Taipei and Hong Kong. I'm sure they will do so again and declare victory. Who cares what China claims? Although, Hong Kong is part of China. The UK gave it back to them 25 years ago. I mean, sort of. Hong Kong has its own federation, similar to Puerto Rico with us. As far as I know, I don't think we've ever counted medals won by athletes representing Puerto Rico as part of our total medal count. Though in this case, Hong Kong won two gold medals to Puerto Rico's none. |
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Post by bbg95 on Aug 12, 2024 8:15:42 GMT -5
Modern Pentathlon has an interesting history. The original pentathlon was composed of 5 different military disciplines, like running, wrestling, and throwing javelins. The "modern" version was supposed to be spiritually the same for a cavalry officer, with horse riding, fencing, swimming, shooting, and running. In recent years they turned the shooting and running events into a biathlon-style running AND shooting event, and added a second fencing round. Now they are getting rid of the increasingly anachronistic (and expensive) horse riding event and replacing it with a "ninja warrior" obstacle course. If they wanted to keep it a showcase of modern military skills, maybe they should have included remote drone flying instead. I believe drone flying is reserved for the Canadian women's soccer team. |
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Post by HappyVolley on Aug 12, 2024 12:43:49 GMT -5
China has a habit of claiming the medals of Taipei and Hong Kong. I'm sure they will do so again and declare victory. Who cares what China claims? Although, Hong Kong is part of China. The UK gave it back to them 25 years ago. Yes, but the details of the agreement guaranteed a level of autonomy, including separate participation in international athletics. Of course, China has mostly ignored the letter of the agreement, but HK does still bring its own team to the Olympics. |
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Post by HappyVolley on Aug 12, 2024 12:45:54 GMT -5
China has a habit of claiming the medals of Taipei and Hong Kong. I'm sure they will do so again and declare victory. Under that system, US can claim Canada's medals. Well, Puerto Rico's anyway. |
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Post by gr8lakes on Aug 12, 2024 15:50:48 GMT -5
Even though USA will likely have to share the most Gold Medal count, they still outperformed expert predictions... with 39 Golds and 123 total medals predicted. USA will finish with at least 39 Gold (probably 40) and 126 medals total (35 more than 2nd place China!) and the most medals from any country since 1988. . Great accomplishment. Someone had to win the medals but we can’t act like Russia not being there played huge part What are the chances that Russia either is still banned or boycotts in 2028. |
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