Who cares,as long USA got the gold in basketball it's all good for me.



















oh wait :1orglaugh

Does anyone have any number about the amount of medals for each continent?

http://www.ecdel.org.au/eu_guide/faqssymbols.htm


You = OWNED.

yeah i heard that but it won't happen. Hell, the Sun's Editor's head would explode first. I mean, the UK won't even enter a team into the footie because it would mean they wouldn't be able to have seperate England, Scotland, and Wales teams in the World Cup. So, can you see it happening across the whole EU?

let's get the statistics of black atheletes over white athletes for states now :-)

No we're not. :winkwink: :1orglaugh

2pac would be ASHAMED of you.

well..not for nothing but not everyone on the continent is in the EU.

this makes your penis larger how?

50 countries to beat 1.

This reminds me of the time a group of guys ganged up on one kid and beat him senseless, then afterwards all the guys were braggin that they personally kicked the guys ass. Even the stupid fuck who was pummeling on him when the guy already was knocked out.

So what..my school had an anthem but it didn't make it a country nor did it make that anthem a national anthem.

Australia owns swimming.

Must be from learning how to swim really fucking fast to avoid getting eaten by a shark. :thumbsup

i know,that's why i brought the racial comparison now :-)

Shhh we have to keep up the front. :1orglaugh

Uhhh, yeah, you mean like the united states is still around?


and European Union, I wouldn't expect the US to get more medals than a bunch of countries put together... Break it down to country by country :-D

50 medals

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BIG B

Yeah it reminds me of that video from Shane's world where like 3 american guys are going to gang up on that one Canadian guy.. and all you Americans found so funny. :1orglaugh

The EU having many countries is similar to the US having many states.

Seriously.. the US did pretty poorly in the Olympics for the last "Superpower".

They got the most medals of a single country.. but they sure as fuck didn't dominate by getting 1% more of the total medals then Russia. (which is half the size of the old Soviet Union)

Hell it's lucky they had Micheal Phelps (sp?) orr they wouldn't likely have even got the most golds!

Who the fuck cares. Congrats to all the athletes. It was an interesting Olympics to say the least.

If you are into stats and putting country against country find the stat for number of Olympians who performed for Countries other then the US yet went to school and trained IN the US. I think you will find an alarming large number.

ROFL!! Absolutly agree!!:1orglaugh

I could care less about that SW video, but if I remember correctly it was pretty evenly matched... well, three to two. Two canucks and three guys from the U.S. with one holding the camera. Don't be mad cause the canadians buddy didn't jump in to help... must be the French in him.

Not really, some states have a population lower than some cities.

So then next time in Bejing, does that mean we can compete as individual states? If that was allowed We'd have a two to one advantage over the EU.

It is the same in EU, some countries have lower population than in some cities.

That doesn't garauntee any success.

:thumbsup - See what I mean earlier though about it all being so arbitrary? You can slice the results in so many different ways.

In international law and international relations, a state is a political entity possessing sovereignty, i.e. not being subject to any higher political authority.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=state

when the latest US athletics drugs crisis shakes down it will be interesting to see how it rebuilds. I would hope it would come out stronger and cleaner.

The US had 28 medals in swimming, Australia 15. :1orglaugh

Well looking at each EU "state's" statistics individually, you have a point there.

But attempting to group them all together when they competed individually is not saying much. I guess some people feel proud that it takes some number shuffling to say they came out with more golds.

They competed individually so their medal count should be weighed individually, if they competed all as one nation, then I would recognize the accomplishment.

Population of US = 293 million people

Population of Australia = 20 million people


The US has over 14 times the population of Australia, yet only got 1.8 times the number of swimming medals

So you think they got the medals they did just because they competed individually?

On a per capita basis, China does incredibly poorly as well.

who cares about population? the olympics isn't about everyone in the country competing, it's about the best of that country who choose to compete. hell, there's probably some olympic sport i'd be great at but i don't but there are people who are fanatics about the sport and thats who you see out there.

fuck the whole population bullshit, base it on the ones that did compete, not how many people are in the country. again... its a way of trying to justify why some countries sucked ass just to make themselves feel better.

Now that is very impressive. :)

Yeah you'd think they'd do better.. but they are very HOMOGENOUS.. pretty much everyone in China is from an asian background.. and maybe that doesn't include the genes to be really good at the 100 yard dash and the like. They own at stuff like diving though.

Western nations have a much more diverse population these days generally..

I guess it depends on if you think the only factor in winning medals is desire + training.. or if you think genes play a part.

You think America, Russia or China would win the number of medals they do if they had the population of the Netherlands or Canada?

Answer = no

Let me see if I can explain this so you morons will understand it.

The EU isn't a country.

Now, that should be enough of an explanation here, but since it obviously isn't for some of you, I will expound on the point for you.

See, it's like this... the EU is a union made up of a bunch of countries and territories. Those countries and territories compete against each other in many events. When an athlete from one of those countries wins a medal, he/she wins it for their country first and foremost. Their country cheers and their people puff their chests up with pride over said medal being won.

Whereas....

The US is a country made up of states. The athletes from those states don't usually compete against each other, they are usually on the same team. In certain cases they do compete in the same race against each other, but all US athletes represent the US, not their individual states.

Is the difference becoming clear yet? Sarah said it best..... that if that's the case then the UK can claim all medals won by all of their countries and territories as being UK. Sorry to the "EU" but in my mind it doesn't work that way for you and not for other unions.



Btw, Canada won 12 medals in total, 2 more than their poorest showing of 10 in Seoul. We need to find ways to better fund and better motivate our athletes, definitely.