奥运特辑 之 泳池有快慢 & 功夫该入选

20160812ou 一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题：泳池有快慢&功夫该入选 LW: Its been an interesting Olympics so far. There have been some interesting narratives developing recently. One of them is that the Olympic swimming pool is too fast. WY: Hang on, how can a pool be too fast. LW: I didn’t actually know this but you have such a thing as fast pools and slower pools. For example this pool has seen 15 world records broken. The world governing body for swimming, FINA, says that there needs to be a minimum depth for all swimming pools which needs to be 3 meters. There are all sorts of things that make a pool faster. [The depth helps with] the choppiness of the water. The temperature if it’s between 25 and 28 degrees and it has slick drainage and shock absorbent lane dividers. All these little details to make the pool faster or slower. MB: So essentially if the pool is deeper, it’s faster because there are fewer ripples. LW: Yeah, presumably because there is more of a surface area too, so you glide through it as opposed to fighting through it. I’m looking here at Singapore, and the gold medal bonuses that’s made my Marketwatch is something like $753 000 per medal. There’s obviously a discrepancy between getting gold medals and endorsements. I don’t think all gold medal athletes get endorsements. You’ve got to be marketable and stuff like that. WY: Someone else who is very famous lately who is playing in equestrian, this event is quite popular in other countries, maybe in China sometimes it’s not as big. A knight has come to China. His name is Hua Chin. He gave up his British citizenship, and applied for a Chinese visa to play for the Chinese team. LW: What sport is it? WY: Equestrian. LW: Ugh the most boring sport. So boring, I would be glad when that ends, just to know that it’s not on the list anymore. MB: Have you got sour grapes because South Africa aren’t going to medal in it? LW: Really? I feel like medaling in equestrian is more embarrassing than medaling in equestrian. Cheng Xunzhao became the first man to win a gold medal for China in judo. I think they’ve done well before female Chinese athletes. The female Chinese judoku have been doing quite well. This is the first time that a man has been doing well in the event. MB: That’s quite significant. That’s like a Japanese person winning a gold in kung fu. LW: Kung fu is not at the Olympics. WY: We should be expecting in the future that we have Kung Fu at the Olympics. MB: Why is Judo at the Olympics and not Kung FU. LW: I don’t know that’s definitely something that we’ll have to look up.