After a street-style opening ceremony with a boat parade on the Seine River, the closing ceremony returned to tradition when it was brought into the Stade de France yard. As the President of the Paris 2024 committee, Tony Estanguet, said, the ceremony is “solemn and emotional, but also a time of celebration...”.
Celebrate after victories, or celebrate after simply completing the task of competing on the world's largest playground. Every athlete participating here is a great honor. The win-loss story can end...
But not yet with Vietnamese sports . Vietnamese sports delegation - 16 Vietnamese athletes - 4 men, 12 women, competing in 11 sports, is one of more than 100 delegations that did not win any medals at the 2024 Olympics. This is the second Olympics. For the second consecutive year, Vietnamese sports failed to win a medal. That is not surprising to experts, but it shows that the problem of Vietnamese sports has become more serious.
Although shooter Trinh Thu Vinh was in a competition close to a medal position , it was simply a matter of position (fourth place in the 10m air pistol event), and other factors were involved - mind. Reason, experience, bravery - is still a very long distance. Athletes win tickets to the Olympics, but in terms of strength, preparation, support, investment and development, with this situation, Vietnamese sports are just "attending for the sake of participating".
Perhaps, Vietnamese sports should be more realistic. Failure is still failure, as usual, there will be lessons learned, however, what the experts want to see now is that in those lessons, there needs to be more of a subjective and determined element. to the forefront, rather than objective causes, to find solutions, a continuation for Los Angeles 2028.
