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The Asian Games, held in Aichi and Nagoya from September 19 to October 4, closed with Japan winning a record-breaking 240 medals in total — 72 gold, 83 silver, and 85 bronze — the most in the country’s history. At a press conference on the 3rd, JOC Chairperson Seiko Hashimoto summed up the Games by saying “hosting on home soil raised its value” and “it turned into something wonderful,” emphasizing the contrast with the spectator-less Tokyo Olympics. Yet on 5ch, reactions cut against that favorable assessment, with a string of posts pointing out operational missteps at the Games, and some calling it “the Nagoya Nightmare.” Opinion was sharply split between the record medal haul and frustration over how the event was run.
JOC Chairperson Seiko Hashimoto held a press conference in Nagoya City on the 3rd and spoke about the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
This year’s Games opened on September 19 and will hold its closing ceremony on October 4. As of the 2nd, the total medal count stood at a record 240 — 72 gold, 83 silver, and 85 bronze. Looking back, Chairperson Hashimoto said, “We’ve already set the all-time record for medal count. Everyone who sent us so much support got to feel happy about it too, and it turned into something wonderful with the spotlight on our young athletes.”
The Los Angeles Olympics are two years away. Looking ahead, she said, “We need to carry this momentum into the Olympics. With [Kosei] Inoue leading the team as head, we want to move forward with analysis and get ready so our athletes can perform at their best,” adding reflectively, “Hosting on home soil raised the value of the Games overall. I really felt that international competitions achieve growth through being hosted domestically. At the Tokyo Olympics there were no spectators, but this time our athletes got to compete carrying the Hinomaru while receiving support from family, friends, and so many cheering voices.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
The Olympics, Worlds, Asian Games — every single one got low marks
That's going to plant suspicion in other countries' minds
Even with good competition results, if your operational ability is this poor you can't win an Olympic bid, right?
or a declining one?
And this is what passes for a politician lol
Watching other countries host it on TV is just fine by me
is seriously messed up
"Brute force, just forced through"
"It was all just papier-mâché" (a flimsy, fake facade)
They went all out and it still turned out like that — how rude of you to say that
This is just business as usual for Japan these days
No matter how much you dress it up, the gold plating always peels off eventually
It's exactly like the backward country Japan used to be
China 169
Japan *83
South Korea *39
Does winning lots of gold medals improve the economy?
Are they using this to paper over the fact the economy isn't improving?
and you're talking about bidding for the Olympics? With what nerve?
The Nagoya Asian Games was a crap tournament entirely run by China
Background and Key Points of Debate
The Nagoya Asian Games drew domestic and international coverage of venue troubles and mishandling of athletes, and questions even came from within the sports world itself — figure skater Daisuke Takahashi, for instance, criticized the production as “papier-mâché” (flimsy and fake). Hashimoto has her own history here too: during the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, her private conduct was reported on by weekly magazines and drew criticism, and some of the sarcasm in the thread traces back to that memory. The thread’s main point of contention is that the logic of “hosting on home soil raises the Games’ value” loses its persuasiveness as an argument for future bids if it isn’t backed up by quality operations — and many commenters tied this skeptically to the fate of the repeatedly-postponed Sapporo Winter Olympics bid. At the same time, the medal count itself is an objective result, and operational evaluation and competitive results are arguably separate axes that deserve to be discussed on their own terms.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[Asian Games] Chairperson Seiko Hashimoto: “Hosting on Home Soil Raised Its Value” — Calls Record Medal Count “Wonderful”.”
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