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It's suspicious when a country that has literally no history of success in a sport comes out and starts breaking world records. It takes a lot more then doing some extra squats to win at an Olympic level. It takes strength, skill, training, technique, and coaching. That's why most sports are dominated by certain countries for long stretches of time, because the coaching and training are already in place.

Aha, aha and whatever happened to this 'Olympic spirit' thing? or does that only apply when people feel they want to use it. I would much prefer leaving the technical stuff to those people whose job it is to find anyone that's cheating. Then I will start calling foul until then as far as I'm concerned it's a celebration of the world's best athletes showcasing the heights of performance. Also like I said it's not as if China exclusively excel on sports where you can dope like mad to win. So even the excuse of 'no history of success' doesn't really hold much water.
 
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Congrats Ki Bo Bae. We all know you deserve that gold. The girl from Mexico put up a good fight as well. It's always great to see a gold medal match in any sport go to sudden death.
 
Yes, I'm sure US and China's hyper competitive cultures and sizable resources have little to do with it. They win medals because they push out more freaks of nature, despite there being a plethora of technical based and team oriented sports at the Games.

I seem to recall the US dominates women's soccer, women's basketball, Men's basketball, is # 1 in Women's Volleyball, Women's rowing and dominate with both sexes in beach volleyball along with the Brazilians. Plenty of team sports.
 
Aha, aha and whatever happened to this 'Olympic spirit' thing? or does that only apply when people feel they want to use it. I would much prefer leaving the technical stuff to those people whose job it is to find anyone that's cheating. Then I will start calling foul until then as far as I'm concerned it's a celebration of the world's best athlete showcasing the heights of performance. Also like I said it's not as if China exclusively excel on sports where you can dope like mad to win. So even the excuse of 'no history of success' doesn't really hold much water.

Sorry, it's just China's history. Too many times before I have seen China start excelling in a sport where they have had "no history of success" and it has been fraudulent. I will give any other country the benefit of the doubt (except North Korea) but I am not naive. Fool me once, shape on you, fool me over and over and over again and I will not trust you anymore.
 
I seem to recall the US dominates women's soccer, women's basketball, Men's basketball, is # 1 in Women's Volleyball, Women's rowing and dominate with both sexes in beach volleyball along with the Brazilians. Plenty of team sports.

Yeah, the US is pretty good. Must be something in the water.
 
Sorry, it's just China's history. Too many times before I have seen China start excelling in a sport where they have had "no history of success" and it has been fraudulent. I will give any other country the benefit of the doubt (except North Korea) but I am not naive. Fool me once, shape on you, fool me over and over and over again and I will not trust you anymore.
Which sports?
 
Jess will pick herself up and be back better than ever at Rio, Vicky still has a couple of races left. It's sad but just gotta move on and enjoy the men!
 
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WR for GB :D

Still gutted about Pendleton though :(
Yeah, she'll take that badly I reckon. I still can't believe how much of a shit her other team mates were to her after the 2008 Olympics.

Records breaking everywhere on this track and some people need to bring up fraudulent charges of doping.
The GB team were suspected of cheating (using technological means - sort of like those swimming suits) after the 2008 Olympics due to their medal haul but were cleared.
 
Sorry, it's just China's history. Too many times before I have seen China start excelling in a sport where they have had "no history of success" and it has been fraudulent. I will give any other country the benefit of the doubt (except North Korea) but I am not naive. Fool me once, shape on you, fool me over and over and over again and I will not trust you anymore.

Cool shame on China etc
 
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