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Chinese media calls the Olympics for ChinaPosted by Eric Mu on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM
 Life News August 20, 2008 With 43 gold medals under its belt, China's Olympic team seems to have a lock on the top position of the medal table, and the country's newspapers are declaring victory even before the Games have closed. Today's Life News ran with "43:26, it is settled" as the top headline, implying that China has already defeated the US in the medal race. Dongguan Times printed a big number 43 on today's front page along with the caption "China is not confused." This afternoon, windsurfer Yin Jian won a gold to bring China's total to 44. A second big Olympics-related news item in today's papers was Liu Xiang's public apology for exiting the 110m hurdles on August 18 due to injury. He asked his fans for their continued support: "Please believe me that I feel no less sad and pained than you do. Please believe that I am still the Liu Xiang who I always have been."  Dongguan Times August 20, 2008 Beijing papers reported on efforts to crack down on Olympic ticket scalping: so far, police have caught 276 scalpers, including 37 foreigners. A more detailed story can be found at Xinhua. In other news, yesterday was the 100th day after the Wenchuan earthquake. The Beijing News reported that people in the quake zone are holding memorial ceremonies for their deceased relatives. Beichuan, the evacuated town which has been sealed off for nearly three months, reopened today to people who came for the memorial. Note: As one of our commenters pointed out: the "不惑" on the front page of the Dongguan Times is an Analects reference, which should better be interpreted here as a shorthand for "China has won 40 gold medals". Links and Sources
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Comments on Chinese media calls the Olympics for China
Congratulations, now if you could only work on the military state/communist populous thing, we would all actually care.
Oooohhh - ping pong, badminton, diving!
I for one welcome our new Chinese athletic overlords.
Ernie: don't forget womens' weightlifting!
And beach volleyball! That is pretty impressive.
Bu Huo does not mean "not confused". It means more than 40. It's a figure of speech from the Analects.
this story is used by www.huffingtonpost.com with the title "China has won"....an obviously mis-understanding, which could also be an intentional manipulation by either Huffingtonpost or by Danwei.
interesting.
不惑：指40岁。也指遇事能明辨不疑。
语出《论语·为政》“四十而不惑”。以后用“不惑”作40岁的代称。
应璩《答韩文宪书》：“足下之年，甫在不惑。”
「四十而不惑。」孔安国注，「不惑」，就是不疑惑。程氏树德《论语集释》,引黄式三《论语后案》:「立，必先不惑，而言不惑于立之后者，何也。夫子曰，可与立，未可与权。立，守经也。不惑，达权也。」「不惑」，遇事可以行权，无可，无不可。「立」，则是：可即可，不可即不可。不知权变之道。所以「三十而立，四十而不惑」。
no, and gymnastics, trampoline, shooting, ALL the weightlifting, a couple of swimming, sailing, rowing, judo, archery, taekwondo! pretty impressive considering how much they've improved in the past 4 years!!
Congrats China, you have won at all the sports nobody cares enough about to actually try to compete! Nor do we have enough athletic 14 year olds to adequately compete...
Should the US compare world records broken vs how many the Chinese broke?
China won. Just deal with it you stupid americans. If it wasn't for Michael "dumb face" Phelps you wouldn't have got even close. This is the first step for China to take over as the world's leader LOL
Laughable that Fox and CNN show America topping the medals table, when the official Olympics site rightly has China at the top with 51 golds. The "totals" are irrelevant to determining outright victor, as common sense dictates that golds are worth more than silvers, and silvers more than bronzes. Anyone disagree?? Imagine a scenario where the US "total" of 110 was beaten by Bulgaria, with 111 bronze medals - no golds or silvers. 111 bronzes clearly does not trump 36 golds, 38 silvers, and 30-odd bronzes. Just as America's total haul does not trump China's 51 golds. Just a pity that the American media cannot graciously accept defeat.