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I guess it’s a bad culture where the country expects gold, anything less is a failure.
Terrible mentality but I guess when you’ve been winning all the time, you expect this to be the norm.
Reminds me of the article this morning I read about China and how they feel they let their country down by getting sliver. Wasn’t helped by the internet trolls either.
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Whatever gets the group going, I guess.
A British swimmer was talking to the Guardian last week about how he attributes their recent success to adopting a gold or nothing mentality. He said previously they applauded anyone qualifying to the finals but they changed the culture to define success as winning, which worked.
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I wouldn’t say bad necessarily, though I’m Korean so not getting 100% is a failure.
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See Piers Morgan on twitter since the beggining of the Olympics. Has been strong on his stance that 'silver is the first loser' kind of stuff. Obviously the replies to him have gone both ways. He also thinks that nobody has cared about this Olympics and it should have been cancelled.
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Seems crazy that a silver in both women’s Team pursuit and men’s team sprint feels a bit disappointing!
The various teams seem to capitulate in the finals which I don’t think has really happened before. Not quite the well oiled machine we’ve seen before.
Still unbelievably rapid though, can’t be too disappointed with world / Olympic records.