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Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by IshKebab »

sheepdestroyer wrote: post #43
new299 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like any article on the Olympics should mention that >80% of the Japanese population was against holding the Olympics [1]. And that in most respects it has be a disaster, I've lost count of the number of scandals and resignations... [2] Rather than being good PR for Japan, it feels like it's been overwhelmingly negative. On top of this, COVID19 infections are rapidly increasing (now at their highest level). Wh…

At least the Games serve to shine light on Japan's refusal to respect UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child, despite ratifying it in 1994. Japan's Law incites and rewards Child Abductions by giving sole custody to the first abductor. Judicial visitation decisions are not enforced. By refusing to protect the fundamental Right of Children to access both their parents directly and regularly, as per the CRC, Japan i…

I don't think the games have shone a light on that at all, sorry. First I've heard of it.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by rocqua »

mijamo wrote: post #20
hellbannedguy wrote: post #16

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Simon Biles will go down as a hero. Admitting you don't feel well is huge. Her honesty will save countless people. She is my new hero. I probally shouldn't have said "hero". We all don't like word, or label. I just admire her on a lot of levels. Crippling anxiety pretty much ruined me life.

Is it? Plenty of athletes say they don't feel well. The specificity about Biles is that she was the great favorite and abandoned at the last minute in the Olympics without much prior signals that it could happen. Tennis players for instance have talked about pressure, depression, the importance of mental preparation for decades now. Recently Them for instance admitted he had a terrible breakdown after so many efforts…

This was significant because it was so last minute. It shows "no matter how far you went, you can always put your mental health first".

I think it's also significant because she's womam gymnast. Generally, they have been pushed really hard mentally. With a lot coming out in my country at least about bullying and other (non-sexual) abuse. Mostly this was focused on pushing them to train harder, ignore pain, ignore feelings, and lose more weight.

In that context, having a female gymnast stand up and say "no I am not pushing past my limits" is a big deal. It looks like a break with the past of mental abuse. Hopefully putting gymnastics in a much healthier place.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by rocqua »

ReptileMan wrote: post #21
hellbannedguy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simon Biles will go down as a hero. Admitting you don't feel well is huge. Her honesty will save countless people. She is my new hero. I probally shouldn't have said "hero". We all don't like word, or label. I just admire her on a lot of levels. Crippling anxiety pretty much ruined me life.

And I admire Kerri Strug. The whole point of the Olympics is to transcend the limitations of your mind and body and not to succumb to them.

If you can't do that, is the olympic spirit to push anyway and damage yourself? Or is the olympic spirit to be honest with yourself and the rest of the world.

I also think that this decision took a lot of bravery for Biles. And I admire her for that.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by MauranKilom »

Retric wrote: post #44
MauranKilom wrote: post #3

Fun fact: Electronic waste contains two orders of magnitude more gold per mass than actual gold ore.

That’s misleading, gold ore can have an extremely high gold content. The comparison is to the minimum threshold for economic extraction and that’s from rocks via chemical leaching not electronics.

Ok, thank you. I went looking for the numbers before posting, but I mostly found the same "100 times" number repeated in different sources and decided to roll with it. Do you have some reference that could be used to inform instead?

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by Tarsul »

mijamo wrote: post #20
hellbannedguy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simon Biles will go down as a hero. Admitting you don't feel well is huge. Her honesty will save countless people. She is my new hero. I probally shouldn't have said "hero". We all don't like word, or label. I just admire her on a lot of levels. Crippling anxiety pretty much ruined me life.

Is it? Plenty of athletes say they don't feel well. The specificity about Biles is that she was the great favorite and abandoned at the last minute in the Olympics without much prior signals that it could happen. Tennis players for instance have talked about pressure, depression, the importance of mental preparation for decades now. Recently Them for instance admitted he had a terrible breakdown after so many efforts…

For the competition that Biles competes in (all kinds of gymnastics) it is downright dangerous physically to compete without confidence because every small misstep can result in devastating injuries. That's not the case in many other sports.

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by prashantsengar »

ekianjo wrote: post #32
poooogles wrote: post #23

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We benefited from it in London, I think we all wanted it too. Even if it kind of was an austerity Olympics compared to before it and after it? Sure we wasted some money here and there (was who the fuck needs a giant slide) but overall it turned an industrial wasteland into a useful area for East London.

> We benefited from it in London You can never say that for sure because the money spent on organizing Olympics could have been used somewhere else (or not used at all, therefore decreasing taxation). It was certainly a waste for anyone not living in London in any case.

Every money that one spends can be spent somewhere else too

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by shard972 »

ColonialOne wrote: post #49
inside6 wrote: post #17

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Who?

Assuming this isn't a rhetorical question, Google is your friend here. OP wasn't making an obscure reference, her name is headline news around much of the world at the moment.

@dang rule violation

Re: Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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Post by strulovich »

ekianjo wrote: post #8
new299 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like any article on the Olympics should mention that >80% of the Japanese population was against holding the Olympics [1]. And that in most respects it has be a disaster, I've lost count of the number of scandals and resignations... [2] Rather than being good PR for Japan, it feels like it's been overwhelmingly negative. On top of this, COVID19 infections are rapidly increasing (now at their highest level). Wh…

Olympics is such a massive waste of money that nobody except politicians who want to show off with taxpayer money or industrials benefiting from government contracts would be for it.

The sentimental in me really appreciates what the Olympics stand for. There are many things bad in sports, but the idea of all the humans in the world sending delegates for a global sports competition is a good reminder of all the progress we’ve made. (I’m also a Eurovision fan)

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Post by crakenzak »

new299 wrote: post #7
numpad0 wrote: post #4

They were going for sustainability angle like recycled medals, stadium benches out of reused wood, cardboard hybrid beds for the village, etc. COVID blew them all away though.

I feel like any article on the Olympics should mention that >80% of the Japanese population was against holding the Olympics [1]. And that in most respects it has be a disaster, I've lost count of the number of scandals and resignations... [2] Rather than being good PR for Japan, it feels like it's been overwhelmingly negative. On top of this, COVID19 infections are rapidly increasing (now at their highest level). Wh…

You’re incorrect. The Fifa World Cup is the largest sporting event in the world.
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