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TexasAggie81 said:

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The Chairman of the 2028 Olympics just called LA the "cultural capital of the world." Those Californians are still in fantasyland.

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He meant bacteria cultures from homeless camp poo. You can bet those are gonna het cleaned out tho

This is gay

He at least competed as one in the Winter Olympics.

We better do something way cooler in 2028.

I'm thinking like Tommy Lee spinning upside playing drums, kid rock shooting a rifle through some bud light.

Trump jumping in from a C-130 to light the Olympic torch with the Olympic flame

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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Football is on now... who the hell is watching this.... besides my wife.
Go Cowboys!!!!!

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Can watch both in this modern world. America's Team currently playing in the stadium of the next Summer Olympic opening ceremony is nice timing

I looked at the gold medal totals for the US and China at the last 2 Olympics.

The thing that stands out is that China is just remarkably consistent: in only three sports did their gold medal tally differ by more than 1 from 2020 to 2024, and two of those three are somewhat misleading.

-China 'lost' two weightlifting golds in 2024, but the number of weightlifting categories was reduced from 14 to 10; they won the same percentage of available golds (50%) in each year.
-China gained two golds in artistic swimming, for the simple reason that Russia was banned from these games. Russia owns this event.
-The only substantial change for China was a newfound dominance in women's boxing, winning 3 golds in 2024 versus none in 2020.

US performance was a bit more variable, with changes of 2 or more golds in 5 sports.

-Swimming was somewhat weaker in 2024 with 8 golds versus 11 in 2020, whereas track and field was markedly more dominant, with an increase from 7 to 14 golds!
-USA also picked up 2 additional golds in cycling, and lost 2 golds in shooting and volleyball.

The take home is that China slightly improved its performance by maintaining or improving their performance in 4 relatively niche sports that they were already dominating: diving (all 8 golds), shooting (5 golds), weightlifting (5 golds) and table tennis (all 5 golds). The US was able to top the medal table by the slightest margin thanks to a historic track and field performance. I'm not sure China can do much better in LA than it did here, with the US likely the favorite in 2028 due to the traditional home field advantage.