Olympics London 2012!

[SUroot]

http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/

Medal count is looking good for GBR.

Considering USA and China are about 50 times our size, coming 3rd is a great feat.

 

[sntaylor]

Hell look at Australia....if you can see that far back.lol

 

[SUroot]

Hell look at Australia....if you can see that far back.lol

Who?

Seriously though, what happened? Swimming should have yielded some medals

 

[ElasticNinja]

http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/

Medal count is looking good for GBR.

Considering USA and China are about 50 times our size, coming 3rd is a great feat.

The US is five times GB and China 20 but hey close enough

Ireland only has two medals from boxing so far (what metal they will be has yet to determined), so I've been cheering on other European teams. Some great stuff from the Brits I must say, hard not to be delighted for them

Anyway, I think this picture is quite interesting

 

[SUroot]

The US is five times GB and China 20 but hey close enough

Well 5.37 and 22.98 to be closer to it...

...and only have 1.52 and 1.68 times our golds respectively.

...and 1.47 / 1.51 total respectively.


So to put it into a meaningful perspective:

Country --- gold Medals per capita*----total medals per capita*
GBR---------0.37--------------------------0.74
USA---------0.09--------------------------0.20
CHN---------0.02--------------------------0.05

So really, USA beats China and Great Britain beats USA, proportionately.


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*capita represented in millions.

 

[ElasticNinja]

Well 5.37 and 22.98 to be closer to it...

...and only have 1.52 and 1.68 times our golds respectively.

...and 1.47 / 1.51 total respectively.


So to put it into a meaningful perspective:

Country --- gold Medals per capita*----total medals per capita*
GBR---------0.37--------------------------0.74
USA---------0.09--------------------------0.20
CHN---------0.02--------------------------0.05

So really, USA beats China and Great Britain beats USA, proportionately.


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*capita represented in millions.

Indeed.. but to be totally fair:

Olympic Medals per Capita

 

[SUroot]

Indeed.. but to be totally fair:

Olympic Medals per Capita

Why would I want to be fair?

 

[naviwilliams]

...well, I guess there is only one thing left to talk about, the closing ceremony. Roll on Sunday.

 

[Rachel A]

The Brits did a decent job in their opening ceremony, but I agree that it paled in comparison to the Beijing opening ceremony. I don't think any country can top what China did in 2008.

Given the much lower budget and the fact that a good chunk of the participants were volunteers, I thought they did an excellent job and was extremely impressed.

Danny Boyle had stated on numerous occasions that you could never top Beijing (given the fact that the state pushes its people to the breaking point when it comes to things like this) and that he wanted a very British opening ceremony that celebrated Britain's past and culture.

My only disappointment was with NBC cutting away from the memorial of the London, Tube bombings and had an interview with Michael Phelps instead. I could imagine people chagrin in the US had the same happened elsewhere talking about, say 9/11. Bad show NBC, bad show...

 

[pbf98]

I looked yesterday and China was two ahead of USA for gold and now today the tables have turned USA at 39 China at 37. USA leads by 10 for total medal count

 

[SUroot]

Given the much lower budget and the fact that a good chunk of the participants were volunteers, I thought they did an excellent job and was extremely impressed.

Danny Boyle had stated on numerous occasions that you could never top Beijing (given the fact that the state pushes its people to the breaking point when it comes to things like this) and that he wanted a very British opening ceremony that celebrated Britain's past and culture.

My only disappointment was with NBC cutting away from the memorial of the London, Tube bombings and had an interview with Michael Phelps instead. I could imagine people chagrin in the US had the same happened elsewhere talking about, say 9/11. Bad show NBC, bad show...

Lets not forget China's CGI fireworks.

Olympic fireworks digitally faked | News | TechRadar

 

[saptech]

The USA women kicked butt in basketball and Track & Field.

Today's medal count...

 

[SUroot]

Yep its all over for GBR. Finished 3rd in the (gold) medal count. Compared to 10th in 2004.

 

[05Istanbul]

Anyone equally excited about the Paralympics? Cracking ceremony last night.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

@susheela Only if they supply The Olympics World-wide.

 

[Joshjames]

Hopefully GBR Will Done Well Next Time.