Well, the Olympics is over and apart from some black fellas from the Carribean, New Zealand won again!
And apart from some massive bint who won silver in the shot-put all of our medals were won sitting down.
New Zealand. Best in the world at sitting around! And BBQ's....
I enjoyed that all immensely. Especially the TaeKwondo, the weightlifting and the rowing.
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Wouldn't a more accurate "per population" for "winning" be medals per participant?
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Looks like the US did fairly well, not that I watched many of the events. Really, the only events I bothered to watch were the Women's Gymnastics. Our midgits did fairly well, even if the girl who was the favorite for the vault did choke. Aside from that I pretty much ignored the games.
I watched a lot of the swimming since quite a few members of the women's swim team were from my uni, and they kicked ***. One rising senior is bringing home two gold medals. She'll probably get a special wall on the natatorium or something.
I watched bits and pieces when nothing else was going on (and of course, any excuse to watch muscular men in tights, or speedos) ... I did keep up with the totals of medals though on the website. My final thoughts though, the closing ceremony is outshining the opening one by far.
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TirithRR wrote:
Wouldn't a more accurate "per population" for "winning" be medals per participant?
So basically, neither way of measuring is really accurate. At the end of the day you can only really look at what medal a country won that were unexpected and where there weren't any medals won even though there was a realistic chance to do so and then figure out if you're satisfied as a country or not.
That all said, I immensely enjoyed the cycling road races and the hockey tournaments, didn't watch much else.
It was really sad that the Dutch men only took home hockey silver though, after the absolutely phenomenal play they showed in the semi finals, pushing aside Britain with 9-2 they couldn't quite get up to speed vs the Germans. The women took home gold as expected of them, although it was a struggle in the semi finals against New Zealand, having probably the best keeper in women's hockey today helped them win that though.
TirithRR wrote:
Wouldn't a more accurate "per population" for "winning" be medals per participant?
In that case, Grenada wins.
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jtftaru wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
Wouldn't a more accurate "per population" for "winning" be medals per participant?
In that case, Grenada wins.
Except that list is still country population per medal earned.
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I watched the end of the Woman's Judo competition, which was remarkably boring. Then I read the Japanese governor called western judo "barbarians fighting," and I figured it'd be much more exciting if they used battle axes and claymores and such.
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Double Yay! Our shot-put silver has just been upgraded to a gold! Quite right too.
Also....Jessica Ennis. Looks good sweaty
Also....Jessica Ennis. Looks good sweaty
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
All I can say is, DAT ABS
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
The real losers, of course, are the British people.
Kavekk wrote:
The real losers, of course, are the British people.
Yes, but this is a thread about the Olympics.
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The women carried the US.
I was able to spend one rainy vacation day at my dad's lake watching the team synchronized swimming. What those women can do seems gravity defying. Why don't men compete in synchronized swimming?
I was able to spend one rainy vacation day at my dad's lake watching the team synchronized swimming. What those women can do seems gravity defying. Why don't men compete in synchronized swimming?
Alma wrote:
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paulsol wrote:
Well, the Olympics is over and apart from some black fellas from the Carribean, [link=http://www.medalspercapita.com/]New Zealand won again!
For accuracy you should create a chart that shows medal count per capita for white people.
Edited, Aug 14th 2012 2:42pm by Elinda
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
paulsol wrote:
Well, the Olympics is over and apart from some black fellas from the Carribean
Sounds like a "Best Winter comedy action movie with a $200,000 budget starring an all female cast released after 2008" OF ALL TIME!!!
Elinda wrote:
Why don't men compete in synchronized swimming?
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Kavekk wrote:
The real losers, of course, are the British people.
Maybe. Depends on whether all that money they spent renovating the East End actually pays off by attracting business or not.
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ODESNT MATTER CAUSE I HAVE ALCHOLOL IN MY VEINGS BETCH ;3
Well if nothing else the bums have a nice new Velodrome to hangout in? That's gotta be worth something.
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someproteinguy wrote:
That's gotta be worth something.
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