(Tokyo Olympics) The Olympic pattern has been reshuffled. Is the United States not confident anymore?
China News Service, Tokyo, August 8th, title: The Olympics are reshuffled, the United States is not confident?
China News Agency reporter Song Fangcan
The U.S. media reiterated the competition for medals instead of gold medals, and the number of gold medals in Japan hit a record high... Tokyo Olympics, the international sports scene has changed dramatically.
The battle for the top spot: Is the United States not confident anymore to re-enter the medal list?
The last time the US media attached great importance to the medal list was the Beijing Olympics 13 years ago.
In the Olympic Games, China took advantage of the home game to sweep 51 gold medals and beat the United States with 36 gold medals.
At that time, the American media emphasized that the United States was number one on the medal list, which is still fresh in the memory.
Since then, in the London Olympics and Rio Olympics, the United States led China in the gold medal standings by 46:38 and 46:26 respectively.
However, it was not until the last half day of this tournament that the United States slightly surpassed China in the number of gold medals by 39 to 38.
Since the beginning of the Athens Olympics, the number of gold medals in the United States were 35, 36, 46, 46 and 39 this year.
The past two Olympics have been a bonus period for the golden generation of American track and field and swimming. However, with the retirement of the golden generation such as Phelps, the American dividend has been exhausted and the performance has declined.
In track and field events, the United States won 13 gold medals in the Rio Olympics, only 7 this year; the United States won 16 gold medals in swimming last year, but only 11 this year.
In addition, the United States has also dropped sharply in its gold medals in gymnastics.
The United States has reduced its gold medals in the two major projects, and another important reason is the decline in "gold content".
There are 26 American track and field medals, 30 swimming medals, and not many medals.
Japanese judo's fresh tricks, South Korea's strong losers
As the host, holding the Olympics under domestic pressure, Japan attaches great importance to its record.
Unlike weightlifting, which restricts the number of entries for participating countries, judo is an unrestricted event.
Of the 15 gold medals, the Japanese team swept 9 of them, accounting for one-third of its total number of gold medals.
In addition, Japan won 5 gold medals in wrestling and 3 gold medals in skateboarding.
Japan’s previous record of winning the most gold medals can be traced back to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
In this competition, Japan created a new high in the number of gold medals and also ranked among the top three.
It is worth noting that many projects in Japan come from scoring or projects that have a strong dependence on referees.
If Japan relies on "earth-flavored" judo to maintain its face, then Korea's other traditional strengths, except for archery, have basically been "annihilated."
Of the 6 gold medals in South Korea’s Olympics this year, 4 came from archery, and the other two came from gymnastics and fencing.
In addition, some of South Korea’s traditional strengths, such as taekwondo, judo and wrestling, have no results.
The reshuffle of European powers
Starting from the Beijing Olympics, Britain’s London Olympic dividend began to ferment. In this Olympics, Britain’s Olympic gold medals reached 22.
Britain has performed well in cycling, equestrianism, swimming, sailing and other events. It also has a good performance in diving and boxing.
Russia has fallen behind in the three-legged rivalry between China and the United States, and this time it was because of doping penalties that it missed the competition in the name of the country.
The regiment, which played in the name of the Russian Olympic Committee, won 20 gold and ranked fifth.
This number is basically the same as the 19 in the past two sessions.
Germany, a big Olympic gold medalist in the past, has the same 10 gold medals as its three European neighbors, France, the Netherlands, and Italy.
Among them, the performance of the Italian team in the track and field is astonishing. All of the five medals they won are gold medals, including the heavy gold medal of the men's 100 meters.
"Small Country" Australia and "Big Country" India
The Australian team won 17 gold medals in this competition.
Since the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Australia’s three consecutive Olympic gold medals have been 16, 17, and 14, respectively.
Of Australia's 17 gold medals, 9 come from swimming.
In addition, Australia also won 2 gold medals in water racing, kayaking, and sailing.
Relatively speaking, India's Olympic record with a population of nearly 1.4 billion is very embarrassing.
It was only one day before the closing ceremony that India made a zero breakthrough and won an Olympic gold medal in the men's javelin competition.
This gold medal also made India's ranking on the gold medal list jump from 65 to 48, and created the best Olympic result in 13 years!
This is also the 25th time India has participated in the Olympic Games and won the 10th gold medal.
Of the previous gold medals, eight came from collective hockey, and the only individual gold medal was in shooting.
The gold medal won this year is also India's first gold medal in track and field.
"We have waited for more than a hundred years!" Indian media said excitedly, "Indians will always remember this day!" (End)