US sore losers in Olympics

petethebrick

Had to laugh when I read about this

Despite getting soundly beaten in the medal stakes by China (47 gold to 31) the American media are reporting that USA are in fact ahead by counting total medals awarded! They are the only nation to measure it this way strangely....

Everyone knows its all about the gold, always has been!

Sore losers?


CNN http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2008/medals/tracker/

Guardian UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/olympics/2008/medals/full

China official site http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml

The Age (Oz) http://www.theage.com.au/olympics/beijing-2008/

javaboy

petethebrick wrote: »

Had to laugh when I read about this

Despite getting soundly beaten in the medal stakes by China (47 gold to 31) the American media are reporting that USA are in fact ahead by counting total medals awarded! They are the only nation to measure it this way strangely....

Everyone knows its all about the gold, always has been!

Sore losers?

Em... you know this is the country that got 0 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze right?

We got 3 medals in my book. Who cares about the colour?

petethebrick

I know, I know. Just pointing it out. And, yes- Im sure if it were the other way round the Chinese media would likely have done the same

Sherifu

I got a medal once.

Turd Ferguson

I'm confused...people actually care about the Olympics?

Kintarō Hattori

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

I'm confused...people actually care about the Olympics?

Yep who cares. If it makes them feel better who are they harming.

funk-you

javaboy wrote: »

Em... you know this is the country that got 0 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze right?

We got 3 medals in my book. Who cares about the colour?

The guy who came first :pac:

-Funk

Rowley Birkin QC

I came first once.

Turd Ferguson

bigkev49 wrote: »

I came first once.

Me and the gf usually come at the same time

Karoma

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Me and the gf usually come at the same time

Stop referring to your palm as your "gf". It's disturbing.

Pighead

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Me and the gf usually come at the same time

Good man! For most men with premature ejaculation they are faced with nights and nights of awkwardness and shame but by choosing carefully you have avoided such a fate.

javaboy

Pighead wrote: »

Good man! For most men with premature ejaculation they are faced with nights and nights of awkwardness and shame but by choosing carefully you have avoided such a fate.

What do you mean by premature?

LolaLuv

They have been doing that! I thought we were ahead in gold. Bastards!

Winters

In before Overheal reporting.

And yes, Olympics have always gone by total number of Gold medals, not overall medals so it was rightly amusing to see them all of a sudden change to overall total medals. Maybe taking place and not winning is the new thing over there?

LolaLuv

Wincest is best! wrote: »

In before Overheal reporting.

And yes, Olympics have always gone by total number of Gold medals, not overall medals so it was rightly amusing to see them all of a sudden change to overall total medals. Maybe taking place and not winning is the new thing over there?

I don't think so. Too bad there isn't a medal for most douchebag nation. That'd up our gold count.

Kintarō Hattori

PillyPen wrote: »

I don't think so. Too bad there isn't a medal for most douchebag nation. That'd up our gold count.

Awww c'mon don't be too hard on yourself.

shoelaceface

GOLD
Always believe in your soul
Youve got the power to know
Youre indestructable
Always believe in,because you are
Gold


yes yes i agree with it ALL

LolaLuv

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Awww c'mon don't be too hard on yourself.

I'm very pissed at America, and this gold medal thing makes it worse. God forbid should Americans think for one second that some other country might be better at something. Jesus.

javaboy

Nation uses particular interpretation of statistics to portray itself in better light- SHOCKER :eek::eek:

I'm sure there's a few countries who could put themselves on top of the table if they used a certain interpretation.

e.g. most medals per capita, most gold medals per capita, most medals per $ invested, most medals/GDP

Who cares? This way the Americans are happy and the Chinese are happy. Let them at it.

btw In every sport in which we won medals at Beijing, 60% of our athletes won a medal. Sounds good to me.

javaboy

PillyPen wrote: »

I don't think so. Too bad there isn't a medal for most douchebag nation. That'd up our gold count.

Since you're the only nation that actually uses the insult douchebag, I'd say you'll have an even better chance of winning that medal than Eddie the Eel did of winning his heat.

Pighead

javaboy wrote: »

What do you mean by premature?

An adolescent ejaculation, a love spurt complete with pimples and a squeaky voice, a load which hits the floor with a moody look on it's spotty face and which refuses to do it's homework. An embarrassment to all concerned.

LolaLuv

javaboy wrote: »

Since you're the only nation that actually uses the insult douchebag, I'd say you'll have an even better chance of winning that medal than Eddie the Eel did of winning his heat.

Lol, good old Eddie.

shoelaceface

oink:rolleyes:

There should be medals for the best attempt.

There's already Gold, Silver and Bronze. This could be tin, or something. We'd be sorted then.

pickarooney

Deleted User wrote: »

There should be medals for the best attempt.

Surely that would be the gold one?

javaboy

pickarooney wrote: »

Surely that would be the gold one?

I think he meant the best attempt without actually succeeding. Kind of like a Failympics.

pickarooney

pickarooney wrote: »

Surely that would be the gold one?

Maybe

"Best Runner Up"

javaboy wrote: »

I think he meant the best attempt without actually succeeding. Kind of like a Failympics.

I like. We could have competitions like the 200m hurdle nose dive.

FatherTed

Deleted User wrote: »

There should be medals for the best attempt.

There's already Gold, Silver and Bronze. This could be tin, or something. We'd be sorted then.

There should be medals for being pure shyte. We'd top the medal charts then.

Overheal

Wincest is best! wrote: »

In before Overheal reporting.

Only you.

From a country that got its medal taken away on account of a drugged horse, this thread is laughable. But it is just the olympics.

Larianne

FatherTed wrote: »

There should be medals for being pure shyte. We'd top the medal charts then.

Or for the best excuses for being shyte 'Tis the injuries from last month..blah blah....'

No, you're just shyte but we have to send someone over..!

LolaLuv

Overheal wrote: »

Only you.

From a country that got its medal taken away on account of a drugged horse, this thread is laughable. But it is just the olympics.

Did you even realize they were doing the count like that? I was happy to see the delightful capitalists vanquishing their commie pinko foes, but it was all for naught!

Overheal

meh the US was guilty of jealousy from the opening ceremony. First we had to expose china for computer generating some of the fireworks :rolleyes: then we blasted them for replacing the singing girl with a cuter proxy :rolleyes: and we're still at them for the underage gymnasts, which could account for a bit of that gold.

metaoblivia

The US has traditionally gone by overall medal count instead of gold count, even in the Winter Olympics, where it generally doesn't help.

Tristram

Overheal wrote: »

Only you.

From a country that got its medal taken away on account of a drugged horse, this thread is laughable. But it is just the olympics.

Blame the horses, not us!

genericgoon

javaboy wrote: »

I think he meant the best attempt without actually succeeding. Kind of like a Failympics.

The paralympics?

snubbleste

metaoblivia wrote: »

The US has traditionally gone by overall medal count instead of gold count, even in the Winter Olympics, where it generally doesn't help.

This is true, the New York Times did the medal table this way in Atlanta 1996.
The OP should have done their research first!

juvenal

Deleted User wrote: »

There should be medals for the best attempt.

There's already Gold, Silver and Bronze. This could be tin, or something. We'd be sorted then.

I lol'd

IOC Medal table. I think if the IOC want to use a medal table they should just use points.

Gold = 3
Silver = 2
Bronze = 1

China: 51 Gold (153); 21 Silver (42); 28 Bronze (28) = 223
USA: 36 Gold (108); 38 Silver (76); 36 Bronze (36) = 220
Russia: 23 Gold (69); 21 Silver (42); 28 Bronze (28) = 139
Germany: 16 Gold (64); 10 Silver (20); 15 Bronze (15) = 99
GB: 19 Gold (57); 13 Silver (26); 15 Bronze (15) = 98
Australia: 14 Gold (42); 15 Silver (30); 17 Bronze (17) = 89

End of discussion.

The US media are the only ones who have USA at the top of the medal table - and tbh the Chinese are no better. Team GB are crowing because they beat the Aussies, and Russia are crowing because they beat GB.

Otherwise using the medal table is just media jingoism.

orestes

Hang on, we're missing the more important issue here.

Americans can count?

Overheal

Irish can sit on a bar stool??

thefinalstage

Em, isn't it about the individual? I mean the athletes made the accomplishments why should countries take part of the glory?

Magill

Overheal wrote: »

Irish can sit on a bar stool??

nice comeback..... not ! lol.

But seriously, can americans actually count ?

juvenal

thelastangryman wrote: »

Em, isn't it about the individual? I mean the athletes made the accomplishments why should countries take part of the glory?

Um, a lot of the events are also team sports. I agree that they individual athletes make it possible to win the medals, but they're also representing their country.

Plus if you want to go by gold medal count only, then you're completely devaluing silver and bronze. In that case, maybe they should just give out gold, and say a nice "thank you" to the rest of the field.

Silver and Bronze count for a lot, just not as much as gold, so the colour does matter. Look at the Irish - one silver and a bronze.

biko

petethebrick wrote: »

They are the only nation to measure it this way strangely....

This is the same nation that has a "world series" in baseball and wins every year...

Overheal

biko wrote: »

This is the same nation that has a "world series" in baseball and wins every year...

Theres a team from Canada too.

LolaLuv

Overheal wrote: »

Theres a team from Canada too.

Yeah and no one else really plays, so who's upset? No one. Anyway, the Little League World Series are actually global. That's nice.

Edit: Except Japan. And Cuba.

juvenal

biko wrote: »

This is the same nation that has a "world series" in baseball and wins every year...

OT - I guess the argument is that with the Toronto Blue Jays, and the amount of Latin American and Asian players in the teams it's basically a "world" series - even though 30% of the players are from outside the US I don't buy it. Although it really pisses me off when the media describe the Superbowl winners as "World Champions" - um against who else?

It's like saying Kilkenny are the defending World Champions in hurling or Kerry are the World Champions in football:rolleyes:

Overheal

and whats the rugby situation besides being only a little less boring to watch than cricket?

javaboy

Overheal wrote: »

and whats the rugby situation besides being only a little less boring to watch than cricket?

Do you of the land of shoulderpads and helmets really want to start the rugby debate?

Overheal

..............fumble?

Victor

thelastangryman wrote: »

Em, isn't it about the individual? I mean the athletes made the accomplishments why should countries take part of the glory?

They aren't countries. They are "National Olymipic Committees".

Dragan

I can see their point to a degree. Some of the medals awarded to were questionable.