USA Medal Sweep!

Originally posted by FabianFnas
Do you mean that you are not better than India or China? I think you are far better than these giant countries.

When the olympics are over, I'll do a table over how many medals each country is taking in relation to their respecitve population. I don't think US will top that list. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Perhaps?

It has nothing to do with population and everything to do with the quality of training and amount of funding the Olympic training programs receive.

Originally posted by darvlay
Perhaps?

It has nothing to do with population and everything to do with the quality of training and amount of funding the Olympic training programs receive.

2004: population/number of medals:

1. Australia (5 medals) - 4,120,171
2. Croatia (1 medal) - 4,491,543
3. Georgia (1 medal) - 4,630,841
4. Czech Republic (2 medals) - 5,110,456
5. The Netherlands (3 medals) - 5,548,438
6. Cuba (2 medals) - 5,711,976
7. North Korea (4 medals) - 5,869,772
8. South Korea (8 medals) - 6,154,106
9. Italy (8 medals) - 7,268,165
10. Azerbaijan (1 medal) - 8,177,717

Originally posted by Palynka
2004: population/number of medals:

1. Australia (5 medals) - 4,120,171
2. Croatia (1 medal) - 4,491,543
3. Georgia (1 medal) - 4,630,841
4. Czech Republic (2 medals) - 5,110,456
5. The Netherlands (3 medals) - 5,548,438
6. Cuba (2 medals) - 5,711,976
7. North Korea (4 medals) - 5,869,772
8. South Korea (8 medals) - 6,154,106
9. Italy (8 medals) - 7,268,165
10. Azerbaijan (1 medal) - 8,177,717

Those medal counts are horribly inaccurate.

Also, what is the point os this list and why have you left out so many countries?

Originally posted by darvlay
Those medal counts are horribly inaccurate.

Also, what is the point os this list and why have you left out so many countries?

It's the top ten.

Originally posted by Palynka
It's the top ten.

Check your medal count or year again. Something's not right there.

Originally posted by darvlay
Check your medal count or year again. Something's not right there.

Ha, this is for this year so far. Sorry about that.

From here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2008/08/everybody-says.html

Edit - It needs updating as the article is out-of-date.

Originally posted by Jirakon
We already have a medal sweep in women's fencing!

women's fencing? Didn't that just used to be called finger pointing?

Originally posted by shortcircuit
Here is a bag of chips and a coke to keep you company. Enjoy!!

Thank you---you too!🙂