2024 Summer Olympics & Paralympics Thread

[diz]

Sitting volleyball beat Egypt 3-1 in SF. Faces B&H in final. Guaranteed at least silver but favorites to win Gold.

[PSGman#19]

Bronze medal in weightlifting!

[PSGman#19]

silver for Iran in disc throw
could of been gold and bronze ....

Exactly, heartbreaking. We had the gold and the bronze near the end..

[Pedram88]

silver for Iran in disc throw
could of been gold and bronze ....

[PSGman#19]

New medal guaranteed in judo. Either silver or gold

[PSGman#19]

Lot of iranians competing today

[diz]

Para Medal ranking update: Iran ranked # 19 in Total medals (14) and # 22 by Gold (3)

[PSGman#19]

If I have to guess, it's because of the competition. The Paralympics has a lower threshold than the normal Olympics, so it is easier to win. I could be wrong.

I guess it plays + all the categories but still the difference is huge between Olympics when we have only 2 participants (in a competitive race like 100m) and paralympics we have 12 with several medals/one or two golds

[persian-eagle-13]

But what explain our para athletic does good while we are non existant in athletics let alone getting medals

If I have to guess, it's because of the competition. The Paralympics has a lower threshold than the normal Olympics, so it is easier to win. I could be wrong.

[PSGman#19]

But what explain our para athletic does good while we are non existant in athletics let alone getting medals

[Nokhodi]

Then why non elite nation like Uzbekistan colombia kenya Morocco (dont have the whole list in mind) do go there?

Uzbekistan dopes like crazy. Look London 2012.

Kenya and Morocco do well in mid-long distance running. It's in their blood, like wrestling is for us.

[PSGman#19]

Honestly you have to have a good doping system like Italy.

10 years ago Italy was a nobody in athletics.
All of a sudden every Olympics they peak perfectly for the tournament and compete very well.

The elite nations control the doping agencies and allow their own to get all sorts of exemptions for treatments that would be illegal usually.

Then why non elite nation like Uzbekistan colombia kenya Morocco (dont have the whole list in mind) do go there?

[Nokhodi]

Why aren't we stronger in athletics in Olympics? It doesn't require that much money we have tracks in every football stadiums and tons of worse countries have good results.

Our para athletes show we can do it

Honestly you have to have a good doping system like Italy.

10 years ago Italy was a nobody in athletics.
All of a sudden every Olympics they peak perfectly for the tournament and compete very well.

The elite nations control the doping agencies and allow their own to get all sorts of exemptions for treatments that would be illegal usually.

[PSGman#19]

Why aren't we stronger in athletics in Olympics? It doesn't require that much money we have tracks in every football stadiums and tons of worse countries have good results.

Our para athletes show we can do it

[PrinceAli]

He just broke his own world record on his 2nd attempt. Still has 4 more attempts left

Gold already locked in

Edit: Just broke the record again with his 3rd attempt lol