London 2012 Olympics: China's Yi Siling wins first gold medal of the Games

[888jamie888]

This London olympics is now becoming a total farce. From the horrible opening ceremony to the farcial incidents to the outrageous judging, we can conclude this is now the single worst olympic games in modern times.

This is what happens when you let a bankrupt country host an olympic games.

Haha, do one mate. You are a total tool.
You've done nothing but troll and criticise the UK since you joined like a week ago.
What was wrong with that last fight? You lost, get over it. Don't cry like a little girl.
And yeh Beijing was completely free of controversy.

I don't actually give a flying **** what you think about the ceremony. You probably didn't understand half of it. That ceremony was more for us than the world.
Toodles.

 

[gambit]

And what is MMA?

Ask anyone in the world what Martial Arts is. The answer they give will be Kung Fu, not some random Vietnamese thing.

Would someone please educate this guy on what 'MMA' stands for. My schtick is more in aviation anyway.

 

[Korean]

Ask anyone in the world what Martial Arts is. The answer they give will be Kung Fu, not some random Vietnamese thing.

Actually, "Karate" is the word that stands for "Martial Art" in English language. Kung Fu is often called "Chinese Karate". Kung Fu does not stand for martial art outside of China, it is just a "Chinese Karate" and nothing more.

This is the reason why the movie studio stuck with the name "The Karate Kid", even though it was about Jackie Chan teaching Kung Fu to an American inner city kid.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Actually, "Karate" is the word that stands for "Martial Art" in English language. Kung Fu is often called "Chinese Karate". Kung Fu does not stand for martial art outside of China, it is just a "Chinese Karate" and nothing more.

This is the reason why the movie studio stuck with the name "The Karate Kid", even though it was about Jackie Chan teaching Kung Fu to an American inner city kid.

Ask anybody in the world for the names of some famous Martial Artists.

Immediately they will say Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Nobody in the world can name even one single Korean martial artist.

In fact, the only Korean name that the average person in the world could come up with off the top of their head, is Kim Jong-il. No one else.

 

[terranMarine]

Lets stick to the Olympics and not to go off topic discussing about martial arts or cricket.

 

[theniubt]

Actually, "Karate" is the word that stands for "Martial Art" in English language. Kung Fu is often called "Chinese Karate". Kung Fu does not stand for martial art outside of China, it is just a "Chinese Karate" and nothing more.

This is the reason why the movie studio stuck with the name "The Karate Kid", even though it was about Jackie Chan teaching Kung Fu to an American inner city kid.

Despite the Olympics having Taekwondo. Fact is that the majority of martial art schools in the US is either Karate, or Kung Fu. You won't see much for Taekwondo, or even people talk about Taekwondo because it's unknown to them. And it will remain this way, considering Taekwondo is not considered as an effective form of martial art.

 

[anon45]

When there are westerners who regard the Olympic medal table as an important tool of soft power, then yes, it is very important. Sure there are few that don't care, but for the china bashing A$$holes in the west that use the medal table to claim whatever type (racial, political system, sporting system, cultural system, sign of rising power) of superiority, this medal table means everything. Just like GDP size, number of aircraft carriers, size of consumer market, Fortune 500 brands, UNSC veto power, etc are important indicators of hard power, the position in the Olympic medal table is an important indicator of soft power.

Why do you think there is a medal table in the first place and is reported in the media daily?

IT MATTERS!!!!!

does it not bother you that you are essentially acting the Eastern counter-part to these China bashing A$$holes?

 

[Mercenary]

This London olympics is now becoming a total farce. From the horrible opening ceremony to the farcial incidents to the outrageous judging, we can conclude this is now the single worst olympic games in modern times.

This is what happens when you let a bankrupt country host an olympic games.

I disagree.

London has hosted a decent Olympic Games.

It didn't have the unlimited funds that Beijing Olympics did in showcasing China.

London is hosting the Olympics for the 3rd Time and it didn't need to go all out to showcase England because people already know it.

 

[gambit]

Ask anybody in the world for the names of some famous Martial Artists.

Immediately they will say Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Nobody in the world can name even one single Korean martial artist.

In fact, the only Korean name that the average person in the world could come up with off the top of their head, is Kim Jong-il. No one else.

Master Hee Il Cho. As far as physical capability goes, he is no less than any of the Chinese MOVIE stars. But Tae-kwon do have far better evangelists worldwide and sorry, movie stars do not cut the mustard.

Despite the Olympics having Taekwondo. Fact is that the majority of martial art schools in the US is either Karate, or Kung Fu. You won't see much for Taekwondo, or even people talk about Taekwondo because it's unknown to them. And it will remain this way, considering Taekwondo is not considered as an effective form of martial art.

Utter garbage. TKD is more effective at PRACTICAL martial arts than any of the Chinese kung-fu, except perhaps wing chun.

 

[gpit]

Absurd. Boxing, Judo and Tae-kwon do are more amenable to being true combative contests and competition than Wushu can or probably will EVER be. Whenever a Wushu/Gung-fu fighter take to the mat in front of me, he invariably fights the way a boxer or a Karate-ka or a Tae-kwon do stylist would. None of that fancy stances sh1t. Do not bother to post those Youtube vids of supposedly Shaolin 'master' knocking out a boxer or some other style. This is the real world where boxing's techniques have reigned and will continue to reign supreme across cultures and time.

Complete bullsh!t!

Just by your above statements, you obviously know nothing about Wushu! Zero!

In fact, neither Wushu, nor Kungfu, while written in English, reflects the true meaning of Chinese martial arts. This is a) Chinese martial arts are a very subtle topic with vast contents that no single person, no matter how great he/she self-proclaim to be, can comprehend. Many subtle contents are basically beyond the description of language. You have to feel while practice; b) a master of technical fighter never confines himself to one format. In fact, he doesn’t care the format. Actually he doesn’t have any format, like fluid. He changes according to his opponent(s) and the environment.

Chinese martial arts (again I don’t think a proper English word has ever been invented for it, but just make do with it for the moment) are not just about fighting. It is also about spiritual purification and elevation; about combining human and the nature into one; about nurturing and storing and using your energy; about (self) enlightening and improving mentally; about enhancing speed, flexibility and endurance physically; about healing and recouping …


Of course, self-defence is one of its essence but frequently being abused by trigger-happy street fighters (perhaps such as you).

Thus, you don’t even have the basic understanding of what Wushu is.

 

[theniubt]

Utter garbage. TKD is more effective at PRACTICAL martial arts than any of the Chinese kung-fu, except perhaps wing chun.

Well here's an example of TKD being effective at practical, thus useless.

And btw, Kung Fu means martial art in Chinese. Wing Chun is just a type of Kung Fu, genius.

 

[prototype]

Despite the Olympics having Taekwondo. Fact is that the majority of martial art schools in the US is either Karate, or Kung Fu. You won't see much for Taekwondo, or even people talk about Taekwondo because it's unknown to them. And it will remain this way, considering Taekwondo is not considered as an effective form of martial art.

I disagree with that, theirs a lot of Olympic sport in which US dont excel so not pursue due to remain unheard in America. Popularity of a sport in America does not reflect the world wide popularity.

Taekwondo definitely is one of the most famous marshal arts in the world, it is in Olympics for no reason.

In India the most famous is Karate, then taekwondo then Judo.

Its an another fact that if Taekwondo is included in Olympics still karate is missing.

 

[masoomchichora]

china wins their 37th gold medal

 

[Rafi]

And Chen Ruolin takes Gold number 37....Diving

 

[gpit]

1. Too much corruption means that the relatives of communist party officials and the wealthy get to make it to the national squad, while the poor Lionel Messi of China gets to farm for the rest of his life. This is a notable example of the rampant corruption hindering China's development that I speak of so often. There is little corruption in less popular sports so the selection is relatively fair and China gets to dominate in those, but not in big money sports like soccer backed by a $50 billion underground gambling industry.

2. Chinese are highly individualistic and make poor teamwork.

LOL!

Why all of sudden you start to humiliate India and Indian democracy?

You described very appropriately in every way how India's sports are so sticky for your logic of corruption and poor team work. They haven't got a gold yet so far. Right?

Fool, you picked up wrong topics, either Olympic medals or corruption, in front of your Indian bred, in attempting to bash China.

Choose better topic next time, if you have any...