Asian Games 2022

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Anyone know who the British commentator is for the athletics (field events)?

Edited October 4, 2023 by dullard

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Women’s  Boxing (KG ) 2 Quotas 

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Went to sleep last night while the  men’s basketball team were down by  18 points 48-30  in the semifinals. Woke up surprised to find that they had won the game 77-76. The men’s team are back in the final for the first time since 1990.

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Indonesia losing gold to China by 0.013 seconds....

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so,  has become powerhouse also in the men's "heavy" weight classes    

 

talking of Weightlifting, of course

Edited October 5, 2023 by phelps

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 women's weightlifting lost all direct battles against  and winning 0 golds yet. (at most 1 gold thanks to  's absence in 87kg)

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  On 10/2/2023 at 9:11 PM, Olympian1010 said:

Might have to start keeping score of English commentators versus the common Vietnamese name “Nguyen.” I don’t think I’ve heard a single international feed commentator get it right so far…

 

Kind of embarrassing at the Asian Games.

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It's getting worse every single day it seems...

 

Weightlifting commentators keeps pronouncing Hyang as "Chang" and my favorite is shortening of DPRK as "Democratic People's" (which is as we know, very wrong both literally and figuratively).

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I think it's clear now that this will be our worst Asian Games since 2006 after winning something like ~20 golds and ~60 medals in past 3 editions we certainly can't repeat that this time. 

 

most of our "big sports" failed to repeat their results from past 3 editions, Greco wrestling was the last of them with winning only 2 gold medals, I was hoping/expecting 4 but one of them got pinned despite leading 7-0 and the other guy got robbed blatantly in 87kg final. Karate is in decline too, Taekwondo failed to win a gold for the first time ever. (even though I believe they did OK) our Boxing is fading completely. weightlifting could do better but having non-Olympic weights here (instead of Olympic weights) was a weird decision and hurt Iran's few chances.

 

so it's just wrestling plus 1 gold medal here and there in other sports. 

 

personally I was expecting something like 17-18 gold medals and 60 medals in total but that's not going to happen. we lost lots of gold medals narrowly, also we have something like 25 fourth place finishes (or 5th place where we have joint bronze) I'm not hugely surprised though, we knew the situation here. less money, less medals

 

but on the positive side, we are in a clear path to a surprising historical gold medal in Chess ! we also won first ever medal in Gymnastics and Women's Cycling. 

 

I hope freestyle wrestling delivers what's expected, (4 or 5 gold medals) at least we can have a happy ending 

Edited October 5, 2023 by MHSN