{"id":41449,"date":"2016-08-11T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=41449"},"modified":"2016-08-12T03:41:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T03:41:02","slug":"primordial-girl-%e5%82%85%e5%9b%ad%e6%85%a7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=41449","title":{"rendered":"Primordial Girl \u5085\u56ed\u6167"},"content":{"rendered":"

WSJ<\/a> has written about the new sensation: Miss Fu Yuanhui, a backstroker, calling her the Primordial Girl.\u00a0NYT here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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She seems to speak a new kind of language, perhaps her mind, that by winning a bronze-medal @ Rio’s 100m Backstroke (58.95), she’s satisfied, because she did her best “\u6d2a\u8352\u4e4b\u529b”, which WSJ translates as primordial<\/em> (\u539f\u59cb). I can’t help but to love her refreshing and original candor.<\/p>\n

The same WSJ article also mentioned medal count. China took the lead in gold only in 2008 in Beijing 51<\/a> while US only garnered a pitiful 36. However China didn’t keep up the gold in London (38<\/a> while US got 46) and is expected to take even less in Rio \u91cc\u7ea6\u70ed\u5185\u5362, about 30-36. I’m wondering what’s going on, with such drastic\u00a0drop? On top of this, Chinese population is 4x+ more than United States’ (1.357 billion<\/a> vs 318.9 million<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What has gone wrong with China? They’ve a powerful state\/provincial (and on down)\u00a0machines that churn out elite athletes day in and day out. The kids are trained starting at very young age, all be taken care of and paid for …<\/p>\n

I also noticed that the Chinese swimmers, in general, swim far less events with one stroke than the American counter parts. for example, Ning Zetao sticks to free style 50 and 100 only (he’s a disastrous results<\/a>\u00a0@ Rio). Michael Phelp is\u00a0winning medleys and Katie\u00a0Ledecky is\u00a0winning 100m to 1500m races.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Wiki<\/a>, USA has, as of today, won 2681 (summer 2399+ winter 282) while China 526 (473+53).<\/p>\n

\u534e\u5c14\u8857\u65e5\u62a5\u4e5f\u4e0d\u7518\u843d\u540e\uff0c\u62a5\u9053\u4e86\u6d2a\u8352\u5085\u56ed\u6167 (\u4e3a\u4ec0\u4e48\u4e0d\u662f\u4ed8\uff1f) \u5c0f\u59d1\u5a18\u7684\u76f4\u7387\u5b9e\u5728\u662f\u53ef\u7231\uff0c\u6e05\u65b0\u539f\u521b. \u540c\u6587\u4e5f\u63d0\u5230\u4e86\u91d1\u724c\u7684\u6570\u91cf\uff1a\u4e2d\u56fd\u53ea\u5728\u5317\u4eac\u90a3\u5c4a\u8d62\u4e86\u6700\u591a51 (\u7f8e\u56fd36). \u4f46\u662f\u4e0b\u4e00\u5c4a\u5728\u4f26\u6566\u53ea\u62ff\u4e8638\u679a \uff08\u7f8e\u56fd46\uff09\u9884\u8a00\u8fd9\u6b21\u5728\u91cc\u7ea6\u5927\u6982\u53ea\u80fd\u8d62 30-36\u9762. \u00a0\u8fd9\u662f\u6211\u4e00\u76f4\u4e0d\u89e3\u7684\u95ee\u9898\uff1a\u4e3a\u4ec0\u4e48\u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u53e3\u6bd4\u7f8e\u56fd\u591a\u56db\u500d\u591a\uff0c\u800c\u4e14\u56fd\u5bb6\u7ea7\u7701\u7ea7 … \u4f53\u6821\u591a\u5982\u725b\u6bdb (\u5168\u5305)\uff0c\u600e\u4e48\u5c31\u8bad\u7ec3\u4e0d\u51fa\u591a\u4e9b\u597d\u7684\u8fd0\u52a8\u5458\uff1f\u53e6\u5916\uff0c\u4e2d\u56fd\u7684\u6e38\u6cf3\u8fd0\u52a8\u5458\uff0c\u4e00\u822c\u53ea\u6e38\u4e00\u79cd (\u957f\/\u77ed – \u6bd4\u5982\u5b81\u6cfd\u6d9b\u53ea\u6e38\u77ed\u7a0b 50 \u548c100m)\uff0c\u4e00\u4e2a\u59ff\u52bf. Phelp \u8d62\u6df7\u5408\u6cf3 Ledecky \u8d62 \u4ece100\u7c73\u52301,500\u7c73. … \u7f8e\u56fd\u5f88\u591a\u804c\u4e1a\u8fd0\u52a8\u5458\u90fd\u662f\u4ece\u8d2b\u56f0\u91cc\u8d70\u51fa\u6765\u7684. \u4e0d\u662f\u6279\u8bc4\u53ea\u662f\u597d\u5947.<\/p>\n

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WSJ has written about the new sensation: Miss Fu Yuanhui, a backstroker, calling her the Primordial Girl.\u00a0NYT here. \u00a0 She seems to speak a new kind of language, perhaps her mind, that by winning a bronze-medal @ Rio’s 100m Backstroke (58.95), she’s satisfied, because she did her best “\u6d2a\u8352\u4e4b\u529b”, which WSJ translates as primordial (\u539f\u59cb). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}