Been watching weight lifting

Women's 53Kg

Gold - Hsu Shu-Ching _ Chinese Taipei
Silver - Hidilyn Diaz _ Phillipines
Bronze - Yoon Jin-Hee _ South Korea

Women's 58kg

Gold - Sukanya Srisurat _ Thailand
Silver - Pimsiri Sirikaew _ Thailand
Gold - Kuo Hsing-chun _ Chinese Taipei

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Today is 63kg and tomorrow is 69kg

Where do Romania's main medal come from? Last time it was Gymnastics right? The individual Gymnastics has yet to start, so there is still time.

Watched a load of Judo, getting in to that. Even looked up where I can learn... no where really says about adult learning though, just kids.

Hungary: I don't always win medals, but when I do, they're gold.

Yea covers the basics really, Pretty much all Yuko scores come from a throw landing them on the side, There is also the floor work of choke's and armlocks and once started the referee calls osaekomi and starts a timer, as it reaches 10 seconds you score a Yuko, At 15 a Waza-ari and at 20 seconds it become an Ippon and wins the match, Also scores an Ippon if the opponant taps out or you dislocate the elbow/arm.

The highest level of score always wins, Someone could score 6 Yuko but 1 Waza-ari will always win a it's the greater score and if you score 2 Waza-ari it becomes a Ippon ending the match.

Penalties come in at the end of the match if the score is equal or their is no score then the person with the least penalties wins, If all is equal then Golden point is played and the first score of any level wins or a penalty against you looses it and 4 Shido penalties = Disqualification.

Judo can be a very fun sport to watch but if you don't fully understand the rules you will be watching it and constantly wondering wtf is happening.

Good quick read of the basic rules - http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/judo-101-rules-scoring

No medals to Israel, my favorite country, that makes me sad. Also, Brazil with only two medals and China Taipei as a different country than China mainland, come on...

Most of them are from Gymnastics, but I feel like we've underperfomed in other places. Alina Dumitru, for example, got gold in 2008, silver in 2012 and now won't get anything.. :/

Why not Taiwan has it's own democraticly elected government and isn't part of the Peoples republic of China even though China lays claim to it , the only concession is it uses the name chinese Tapei since China was admitted to the Olymics, you might have a stronger case if you questioned Hong Kong competing as a separate team, since even though they have some automony they are a Chinese region, having said that their long Olympic history is most likely why they continue as Hong Kong.

I wonder why these two small pieces of land are so important and specially Hong Kong, there is somehting really special about that region.

Para-olympians are subject to the same governance as able bodied athletes,and like Ka-pi96 said you don't have a human right to compete at the Olympics.

This basically says because they are disabled they should be treated differently something that disabled people have fought against for years.

As to there importance ,in Hong Kong's case Britain being one of the Western powers during the 19 century trade wars with China, negotiated a 99 year lease for the island to use as a far east base of operations, during British rule it grew into a important city geographicaly and strategically with it's access to the west and East and for that same reason financially , with China running it's money through the exchange , so those factors plus China having always seen Hong Kong has part of China that they where forced to give up gives it that importance.

In regards to Tawain , after the communist victory over the Nationlists in China , most of the Elite fled to Tawain and basically set up a government in exile and claiming they represented China to the world hoping to one day reclaim the mainland, over the years as that hope diminished it morphed into them  ruling Tawain as a separate Nation, so just from an historical perspective you can see why China looks at Tawain.

One thing we should remember in all this is the fact that Tawain wasn't some uninhabited Island and like most invasions it has meant a marginalisation of the ethnic tawainese people.