U.S. media said: Olympic medals no longer represent a country's cultural strength. Say who? It's not just about the United States, it's about India!
As of August 4, the Tokyo Olympics, China won 32 gold medals, ranking first for many days, while the United States only had 27 gold medals, ranking second, and the gold medal list could not catch up with China. This made the American media completely sour.
The US media first used their own public opinion advantages to "manipulate" the Olympic medal table, and no matter what, they must put the United States in the first place, and must not let China rank first.
After this trick failed, the US media slandered Chinese athletes as "gold medal machines". On July 29, the New York Times published a smear report titled "The Only Goal of China's Sports Machine: To Win the Most Gold Medals at Any Cost": "The only purpose of China's sports assembly line is to win gold medals for national honors, and neither silver nor bronze medals matter." Chinese sports are cruel and utilitarian, and Chinese athletes are miserable and emotionless. ”
The US media smeared China, still can not stop the Chinese Olympic athletes in the Tokyo Olympic gold medal list of the soaring, what to do? As a result, the US media came up with a way to suppress the gold content of Olympic medals, as a way to express their reluctance to admit that China performed better and stronger at the Tokyo Olympics than the United States.
The Washington Post reported on July 30 that for a long time, the number of Olympic medals has been regarded as a reflection of a country's value, which is an easy indicator of national achievement. Today, however, the most valuable thing about the Olympics for an open society is not that the athletes have won the most medals, but first of all that the Olympic Games provide a platform for open competition. America's soft power does not need to be fully reflected by the number of medals, such as the withdrawal of American athletes, which shows the world the "soft power" of American freedom and democracy.
The US media may also feel that the bowl of poisonous chicken soup that "Olympic medals no longer represent a country's cultural strength" is not convincing, and it is necessary to pull a cushion back as a footnote, at least to reassure themselves, the country with the cushion back is india, the world's second most populous country.
At the Tokyo Olympics, the Indian delegation had more than 100 athletes, which was not small in scale, and had high hopes for winning medals. In order to motivate athletes to win medals, India has introduced cash incentives: gold medalists will be rewarded with 7.5 million rupees (about 653,000 yuan), silver medalists will be rewarded with 4 million rupees (about 348,000 yuan), and bronze medalists will be rewarded with 2.5 million rupees (about 218,000 yuan).
At the Tokyo Olympics, as of August 4, India won 1 silver, 2 bronze and 3 medals: the women's 49 kg weightlifting competition, Mirabay won the silver medal; the badminton women's singles, Sindu won the bronze medal; the women's sub-middleweight boxing, Lovelina Borgoháin won the bronze medal.
CNN mocked India in a live-text report on Aug. 4: "India, a country of 1.3 billion people, currently has only 3 medals at the Tokyo Olympics. ”
India's first Olympic individual gold medal in history was won by male shooter Abinaf Bindra at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, while India's best Olympic result at the Olympics was six medals at the London 2012 Olympics. India wants to surpass the number of medals at the Tokyo Olympics than the London Olympics. However, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very bone.
For India, it is indeed impossible to use Olympic medals to reflect the cultural strength of the country!
Seeing the number of medals at the Tokyo Olympics in India, Americans do have the confidence to say that Olympic medals no longer represent a country's cultural strength, but how weak and confident is it to say such a thing to China, which is at the top of the gold medal list?