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  1. Tennis Bum Tennis Bum is offline

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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 9:19am)

    2008 Olympics: Complete Medal Standings
    As of 08/13, 7pm Beijing Time

    COUNTRY GOLD SLVR BRZ TOTAL
    United States 10 8 11 29
    China 17 4 5 26
    South Korea 5 6 1 12
    Australia 4 2 6 12
    Russia 2 7 3 12
    France 1 7 3 11
    Italy 4 4 2 10
    Japan 4 1 3 8
    Germany 4 1 2 7
    Great Britain 2 2 3 7

    There was alot of talk about China winning the medal count. US looks pretty good so far... and we kick ass at track and field.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 9:24am) in reply to Tennis Bum

    CANADA 0

    WHAT A JOKE WE ARE SUCKING IT UP THIS OLYMPICS
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 9:24am) in reply to Popperhead

    cAN WE BUY MICHEAL PHELPS FROM U GUYS ???
  4. BillMueller BillMueller is offline OT President

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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 9:24am) in reply to Popperhead

    congrats Canada, you have as many medals as the country I just founded........zero!
  5. dolphin13 dolphin13 is offline OT Vice MVP

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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 9:35am) in reply to BillMueller

    so what's most important. total medals or most golds?
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 9:38am) in reply to dolphin13

     
    Originally Posted by dolphin13 View Post

    so what's most important. total medals or most golds?

    Important to who?
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 9:48am) in reply to LeftyMark

    I just want to know if the OP took the time to type all those scores out. If so you deserve at the very least a bronze.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 10:05am) in reply to imhooks

    lol.. copy/paste/kinda fix

    I believe the "winner" is based on total medals.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 10:25am) in reply to Tennis Bum

    That table is incorrect. Countries are ranked by gold medals first. The table below is from Athens 2004.

    <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[edit]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Medal table</SPAN></H2>
    The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-medal_count_1-1>[2]</SUP> In boxing and judo, two bronze medals were awarded in each weight class, so the total number of bronze medals is greater than the total number of gold and silver medals.<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-olympic.org_0-1>[1]</SUP>

    The ranking sorts by the number of gold medals earned by a country (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. The host country, Greece, is highlighted in lavender. The greatest number of medals won in each medal category, gold, silver, bronze, and total, is in boldface.

    <TABLE class="wikitable sortable" id=sortable_table_id_0><TBODY><TR><TH>Rank <SPAN class=sortarrow></SPAN></TH><TH>Nation <SPAN class=sortarrow></SPAN></TH><TD>Gold <SPAN class=sortarrow></SPAN></TD><TD>Silver <SPAN class=sortarrow></SPAN></TD><TD>Bronze <SPAN class=sortarrow></SPAN></TD><TH>Total <SPAN class=sortarrow></SPAN></TH></TR><TR><TD>1</TD><TD align=left> United States <SPAN>(USA)</SPAN></TD><TD>36</TD><TD>39</TD><TD>28</TD><TD>103</TD></TR><TR><TD>2</TD><TD align=left> China <SPAN>(CHN)</SPAN></TD><TD>32</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>14</TD><TD>63</TD></TR><TR><TD>3</TD><TD align=left> Russia <SPAN>(RUS)</SPAN></TD><TD>27</TD><TD>27</TD><TD>38</TD><TD>92</TD></TR><TR><TD>4</TD><TD align=left> Australia <SPAN>(AUS)</SPAN></TD><TD>17</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>49</TD></TR><TR><TD>5</TD><TD align=left> Japan <SPAN>(JPN)</SPAN></TD><TD>16</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>12</TD><TD>37</TD></TR><TR><TD>6</TD><TD align=left> Germany <SPAN>(GER)</SPAN></TD><TD>13</TD><TD>16</TD><TD>20</TD><TD>49</TD></TR><TR><TD>7</TD><TD align=left> France <SPAN>(FRA)</SPAN></TD><TD>11</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>13</TD><TD>33</TD></TR><TR><TD>8</TD><TD align=left> Italy <SPAN>(ITA)</SPAN></TD><TD>10</TD><TD>11</TD><TD>11</TD><TD>32</TD></TR><TR><TD>9</TD><TD align=left> South Korea <SPAN>(KOR)</SPAN></TD><TD>9</TD><TD>12</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>30</TD></TR><TR><TD>10</TD><TD align=left> Great Britain <SPAN>(GBR)</SPAN></TD><TD>9</TD><TD>9</TD><TD>12</TD><TD>30</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

    As you can see Russia won more medals overall than China but only came third because China won more gold medals.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 10:33am) in reply to LeftyMark

     
    Originally Posted by LeftyMark View Post

     
    Originally Posted by dolphin13 View Post

    so what's most important. total medals or most golds?

    Important to who?

    important to all the americans who get caught up in this shit
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 10:41am) in reply to dolphin13

    without phelps, we actually look like we are doing a shitty job of WINNING. nothing wrong with silver or bronze, but we are supposed to have the best athletes in the WORLD with the best coaching/facilities. not too worried whenever track/field starts. it's gonna be all over then.
     
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 11:35am) in reply to lockdownpokah

    China has 4x as many people as we do, and have you seen their training facilities? They pull kids out of their normal schools at an early age have them do nothing but train and study. It is all paid for by the government, as opposed to the US where some families of olympic athletes have to take out mortgages on their houses just so their kids can make it.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 11:39am) in reply to juanyorba

     
    Originally Posted by juanyorba View Post

    China has 4x as many people as we do, and have you seen their training facilities? They pull kids out of their normal schools at an early age have them do nothing but train and study. It is all paid for by the government, as opposed to the US where some families of olympic athletes have to take out mortgages on their houses just so their kids can make it.

    Americans have it rough imo
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 11:41am) in reply to LeftyMark

    funny and heartbreaking all at once.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 11:44am) in reply to Werglum

    Canada has it rough, I mean you have 10% of the US population, and 10% of the US medal count...right??? I am just saying that China should be beating the US in medals, gold medals ect. I wouldn't expect Canada to be able to compete with countries much larger and it doesn't.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 11:54am) in reply to Tennis Bum

    I think the US will eventually catch up in Golds... we're far superior at track and field events, that havn't even started yet. We've also got Baskeball and beach volleyball which we are favored in both.

    However, there are still alot of medals to be given out in Gymnastics... most of which will probably go to the chinese.. we'll see what happens though

    goooooo team
     
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 12:08pm) in reply to juanyorba

     
    Originally Posted by juanyorba View Post

    China has 4x as many people as we do, and have you seen their training facilities? They pull kids out of their normal schools at an early age have them do nothing but train and study. It is all paid for by the government, as opposed to the US where some families of olympic athletes have to take out mortgages on their houses just so their kids can make it.

    we still have the best athletes and coaches
    and for the most part most these people train at top facilities
    not ALL but most our athletes
     
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 12:15pm) in reply to Tennis Bum

    Half of the US's medals are from swimming, where they give them out like toilet paper.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 12:16pm) in reply to juanyorba

    China is only good at 2 things.Gymnastics and diving.They f'ing swept all of the diving medals for a total of 8.They just pretty much suck at everything else.

    Canada needs to step their game up.How are Canadians not good at shooting or archery.Come on my brothers to the north.Show us something.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 12:23pm) in reply to wh0a510

    The only sport where we can win medals is Rowing. I dont know why we even have so many athletes only like 10/500 are realistic medal chances. No one in Canada cares about these games anyways. Vancouver 2010 ftw
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 1:14pm) in reply to lockdownpokah

    You have done nothing to refute my points that China should have more medals because of a huge population and state-sponsored training facilities. I gave reasons to your bitching about not winning gold medals. Maybe we do have the best athletes in the world, but IMO it is amazing that we can compete with a country 4x the size of our own.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 1:15pm) in reply to TMLMS13

    and half of Canada's medals are in??????????????
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 1:39pm) in reply to juanyorba

    Winter sports.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 1:46pm) in reply to Unforseen

    Zimbabwe has more medals than Canada

    who will win more medals

    Canada

    or

    Phelpsada
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 2:16pm) in reply to dolphin13

    I wonder how many of China's medals are as a result of some illegal performance-enhancing substance that the IOC's testing acengy can't detect.
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    Aug 13th, 2008 (8/13/2008 2:16pm) in reply to dolphin13

    Phelps will def have more gold medals than Canada, but it should be close for total medals. And like I said, there are so many different swimming events that one person can enter that getting 8 is a little overrated.

    Dont get me wrong it is amazing what he doing, But you cant call him the best ever based on medals. Say there is a wrestler who absolutely dominates, he can only get one medal.

    IMO Misty May/Kerry Walsh are just as dominant in Beach Volleyball, over 100 str8 wins, but their sports only awards one medal.
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