Asian Games 2018

[heywoodu 16,036]

Li Mengfan looks like Zach from 13 Reasons Why

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Is it really necessary to have the mat on a slightly elevated platform so every single time they go outside it, it looks like someone breaks their ankles? 

 

I guess they had to make it different to other martial sports somehow.

 

Apparently Afghan lost by vitue of Chinese pushing him down 3 times in 10 seconds.

[MHSN 3,782]

11 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

I guess they had to make it different to other martial sports somehow.

 

Apparently Afghan lost by vitue of Chinese pushing him down 3 times in 10 seconds.

 

to win a round you need to push the opponent out of the platform 2 times . but that doesn't count as a push if the fallen guy have a hold of you

[heywoodu 16,036]

No wushu finals now?

[nitinsanker 207]

Discovered further creativity in sport by Indonesia ....... They won 2 golds and a bronze in downhill cycling....... Indonesia has not ever won a medal in cycling  as far as I remember ever , so besides adding -------  16 medals in pencak................4 In jetski.....................  6 in paragliding .....9 in jujitsu ....... 6 in bridge .......4 in sambo......... 6 in kurash 

all to add to their medal tally except possibly the last 2 ...... They have also added absurd events like downhill cycling ( 2) , poomsae (4) .............       There should be a event called reinventing sports to maximise medals and the Indonesia host team would win it hands down ............   

[MHSN 3,782]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

No wushu finals now?

 

Finals will be tomorrow morning. all of them. actually 5 (out of 6) of them will be Iran-China !

 

I think Iran will win one (70kg men) but I hope for maybe one more

 

interesting note that our 70kg Sanda fighter will fight for the gold more or less at the same time as her wife competing for gold medal in Rowing.

[heywoodu 16,036]

1 minute ago, MHSN said:

 

Finals will be tomorrow morning. all of them. 

Damn it 

 

That's when I can't watch tomorrow. 

[MHSN 3,782]

51 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This wushu stuff ain't half bad 

 

I don't really get the point of having this besides 579 other similar sports, but, not bad. I guess I only saw the event before where one guy stands alone and that was not very entertaining.

 

Sanda isn't really similar to other martial arts here. it's a mixture of punching, kicking and wrestling. of course it takes time to understand the rules. and that's terrible they don't show the score for TV audience. but those in the stadium can see the score from each judge (for winning the round you need 3 judge giving that to you)

 

despite this, I'm not a big fan of Sanda, this is kind of a dangerous sport. I saw bad things happened before.

Edited August 22, 2018 by MHSN

[Quasit 869]

22 minutes ago, nitinsanker said:

Discovered further creativity in sport by Indonesia ....... They won 2 golds and a bronze in downhill cycling....... Indonesia has not ever won a medal in cycling  as far as I remember ever , so besides adding -------  16 medals in pencak................4 In jetski.....................  6 in paragliding .....9 in jujitsu ....... 6 in bridge .......4 in sambo......... 6 in kurash 

all to add to their medal tally except possibly the last 2 ...... They have also added absurd events like downhill cycling ( 2) , poomsae (4) .............       There should be a event called reinventing sports to maximise medals and the Indonesia host team would win it hands down ............   

Well, MTB Downhill is pretty interesting. It's not Indonesia's fault Asia doesn't care more about it.

In fact, it's shocking to see none of Asia's Big 3 had an athlete competing here.

[MHSN 3,782]

2 minutes ago, Quasit said:

Well, MTB Downhill is pretty interesting. It's not Indonesia's fault Asia doesn't care more about it.

In fact, it's shocking to see none of Asia's Big 3 had an athlete competing here.

 

from what I heard from Iranian cyclists, the host only let the other teams train (or even see the course) 2 hours before the competition. while apparently (according to Iranian cyclists) the host nation should let cyclists train in the main course 2 days before the competition.

 

I'm no expert in this but I think being host is a huge advantage in MTB downhill.