Griff88

It ended on 31 Dec 2023, unfortunately

Yes, yes will join I'm just busy with pulling all nighter finishing deadlines (and usually found myself watching Paralympics instead lol)

Retired badminton players post Olympics: He Bingjiao, Liu Yuchen, Ou Xuanyi, Tan Qiang Jongkolphan Kititharakul, Rawinda Prajongjai Lee Yang

Wow it's already uploaded (blocked in US only)

1. 7.5/10. It's good we win 2 golds, but the badminton team is underwhelming except Gregoria Mariska who won bronze. 2. Rizki Juniansyah is surely the biggest surprise. Medal is expected, but I would never think about gold. When the snatch finished, I'm still convinced Shi Zhiyong will lift one clean and jerk to end the competition, but well I don't expect that twist of fate. He also did not succumb to the pressure from expectations. Diananda Choirunisa in archery is the biggest heartbreak. That 5 against Barbelin which ended with shoot-off defeat is so traumatizing, I hope she come back stronger. Maybe she won't be able to medal even if she advanced, but advancing to semifinal among the Koreans would elevate the prestige of the sport here. Also the 0.006 seconds (yes this is not a typo) defeat in women's speed climbing is still painful to this day. Given the current situation of the badminton team, I did not have high expectations so can't be really said as a heartbreak. But it's a bit sad to see some of our players looking confused during play in (arguably) the biggest stage of their career. Those who played against the French also unable to handle pressure from the singing crowd, trembling like French royals when they are faced with angry peasants in a revolution 3. Near miss, I think? The NOC president promised they will deliver the best ever medal haul, but we got the same number of gold like 1992 (most gold ever won in single edition by this country). 4. If weightlifting, a sport which has contributed medals since 2000, still trains with old weights and an uninspiring place like the current center then what do you expect? I get it with our huge population, sport won't be receiving more funding since there are a lot of things to prioritize. At least those who medaled at Asian Games can receive support to qualify for LA 2028. It's stupid when we have 2022 Asian Games medalists in BMX racing (gold) and skateboarding (silver) but they did not receive funding to even try to qualify for Paris. 5. I hope in 2028 Rizki Juniansyah and Rahmat Erwin Abdullah can both qualify. Rio Waida hopefully can gain more experience to finally win a medal. We have some potential swimmers but their specialties are 50 m fly/50 m breast, so hopefully they can somehow improve in 100 m in those respective strokes. I think badminton will still continue in decline... so I hope they prove me wrong on that

And stop calling it a sport too, just call it “competitive video gaming”

- finally have a gymnastics Olympian, despite Rifda got injured and unable to perform in all apparatus - finally winning gold outside badminton - Badminton's Gregoria Mariska showed her critics that she actually can win a major medal Beside those nationalistic moments, here are some of my picks: - Celine Dion is back - Teddy Riner sending a long heartfelt message to Tatsuru Saito who was very, very disappointed with his defeat. - winning the handball match against , the first time I was thrilled with a handball match - Carlos Yulo winning 2 gold (and the hilarious reward of free colonoscopy) (to be updated)

Great crowd support to Lhamo

Hassan

Southeast Asians already had this thing as medal event since 2019. The game titles keep changing except Mobile Legends which is basically the opium of the youth in this region. I am glad that they don’t have a proper united world federation and IOC decided to create a separate event for this. But hey we don’t know what kind of U-Turn IOC would do, so my only wish is that the IOC include it in the Olympic Games programme after I am no longer around so I don’t have to cope with it

Crazy shit

getting further from the remaining chase group...

Owh nice to know that 671 (Chinese: Liu Qi Yi) is basically the athlete’s name

Motoki Sakura

Lol I was with my mother and she seemed to find this event amusing. She also commented that the girl from is ready to compete while the girl looked like she just finished a part-time job before the event start

Congratulations for the gold Outstanding performance

I tried to peek for a bit, yep this is not for me

I went to bed after the snatch, now I regret it Turns out we are just not patient enough

Second medal: Veddriq Leonardo

People here are already giving nicknames to the other medalists, my particular favorite is those who called Sam Watson as "Timothée Chalamet after being possessed by a house gecko"

Can we have a +0.5 option since we just won gold?

My hands are trembling, finally...

My country's result sucks and I need more sleep so I kinda want it quickly ends at this point

Weightlifting M 73 kg and men's speed climbing...

Weeeeellll.. I did think about worst-case scenario where all the results ended with worst Olympic ever for Indonesia since 1988 but I didn't expect it to be this bad 2 legit medal chances remaining, can only keep watching and hope for the best