We are talking about Swimming here and you quote me long story about Baseball, Taekwondo, Judo.Actually, I don't know where you have been hiding for the last 20 years. World Class achievement have been done and have since been equally strong in many of the sporting field.
Japan/Korea was dominating in baseball ROK won World Cup twice and 5 Runner up in the last 20 years, Japan have 2 Runner Up and Taipei have 1, also South Korea ran 4th in 2002 FIFA World Cup and is placed 17th on FIFA world Ranking beating a lot of European Power House. Not to Mention South Korea dominated in Judo and Taekwondo (Japan earn 3 gold in Judo in 2016 Olympic, South Korea won 2 in Taekwondo) Not to mention Shooting and Archery, both of which South Korea dominating the world (Especially Archery, which clean up all 4 gold in 2016 Summer Olympic. South Korean also did pretty good in Golf.
North Korea was the current U-20 and U-16 Women Soccer's World Cup holder.
Indonesian Rio Haryanto was the first Indonesian F1 Driver, coming to term with a few of his Asian F-1 driver mainly from Japan. Indonesia also dominated Badminton along with China and Malaysia
Japan on the other hand was dominating in Volleyball in the 1980s. As well as several combat sport, soccer and
There are quite a few choices in Asia when it come to sport, not to mention the up and coming nation like Singapore and Vietnam which started winning gold in Olympic Games, hell, even Hong Kong have one Gold and 2 bronze in Olympic.
Being Proud of being Asian and being Proud of being Chinese is two different thing, people should have been proud of their own heritage and so it's quite funny and to some extend, sad, for you to be proud of China as you have no relationship to China what so ever (Maybe you are of Chinese Descent? I don't know). If you are a Chinese, then I would understand you are rooting for China, but if you are not, and you are rooting for China just because they are Asian, then there are something wrong with you. Why not root for Japan, Why not for South Korea? Why not Malaysia? But you don't just root for any one particular country because they are Asian. My wife is Swedish, she would not root for Denmark just because Denmark done better on international Sport and both Swede and Dane are Scandinavian.
But then this is beside the point. World Aquatic Championship is not looked upon as anything serious to Swimmer, WAC does not give out Olympic Ticket to nations, which mean they are not really counted in the standing of a Swimmer (Winning WAC does not automatically qualify for the next summer Olympic anymore) so a lot of athletes either not bother to go or not performing their best anyway to begin with. Case in Point, as I said China have been virtually dominated along with the US in WAC Chinese are either First or Second on the medal tally, but then that does not reflect well on the last 3 Olympics, where the combine gold medal total between 2008 Beijing Olympic, 2012 London Olympic and 2016 Rio Olympic have less Gold medal than any single one of these WAC meet (China have 8 Gold medal in 3 Olympic and at least 11 gold each WAC since 2007.)
Happy for something that's not going to make a different is, I don't know how to describe it, yes, Sun Yang beat Mack Horton in WAC 2017, he also beat him in WAC 2015 and WAC 2013, yet Mack Horton is the one that won the Olympic, he is the one the world is going to remember. The stuff that I want to see is more Asian Country winning gold in competitive international Arena, not some secondary challenge, majority of reason why we Asian are lacking in sporting field is because we satisfied and compromised on second best situation, we are overly celebrate when we won something in meet like this, and then when the big thing came, those performance we saw in these meet is no where to be seen, mostly because we are still fond of and drunk in the "Achievement" we have in these meet. I am happy for any Asian to win gold, not just China, were you happy when Schooling beat Phelps in 100 meters butterfly? Wouldn't you want more Singaporean win gold in Olympic just like Joseph Schooling did?
You do know Performance Enhancing drug is not used like that? If you want to boost your performance, you use it 1 or 2 year prior and continuously to boost your performance, there does not exist drug that can turn a normal person into Hulk in just a day or a week.
You left out Badminton and Table Tennis which we Asians are good at.
Yes I am delighted that Schooling got a gold after 60 years of trying, albeit Schooling is not exactly a true Asian.
He is Eurasian, so half Asian.
Your hate for China knows no bounds, where did I say I only wanted China to win.
I specifically said Asian. I would be just as happy that Japan, Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia had won.
But unfortunately no, but you are delusional if you think Singaporeans are satisfied with 1 gold every 60 years.
So what you are saying is Asians should be very happy with an occasional gold.
There are so many instances where Asians came close to at least a medal in swimming and field and track, but they always fail when it mattered until we thought it could never be achieved, that is until China came in.
Maybe I shouldn't fault you as maybe you are not around 50 years ago.
You talk as if Performance Enhancing drug is invented in China and Lance Armstrong of France did not take drugs.
From the US, we have shamed famous drug users like 100m sprinters Ben Johnson, Justin Gatlin.
I believe you may have grievances with China or just the CPC.
Please drop your anti China bias whatever your grouse with China is.
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