Beijing Now readers split over performances in the pool : "IS Olympic silver no longer good enough?"
Precisely. A silver or a bronze are both high awards and yes, it is fantastic when we get gold or an athlete gets gold. Our swimmers are doing really well against some tough competition . Critics pull things apart. Maybe they could have done better on another day at another time. We were talking about this very thing because of the Japanese gymnast who quite clearly was hugely talented but his shoulder was letting him down. It is clear all these athletes are immensely talented and extraordinarily well trained but they have to go for gold after a run of competitions and a lot of training...so they have to perform perfectly at a particular time on a given day. Swimmers tend to be in several races...they can only do their best at the time.
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