kngkyle From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 354 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (11 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1797 times:
It will be a battle between China and the US. In 2008, the US won most medals, but China got most golds. We'll see now if that was just because of homefield advantage or not. Being American, I'd of course root for the US winning the most.
falstaff From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 5673 posts, RR: 29 Reply 5, posted (11 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1770 times:
Quoting Stabilator (Reply 3): Depends if China is bringing their 10 y.o gymnists again!
Those kids sure are good! That reminds me of the man/woman the East Germans had in the games back in the day.
I'll root for the Team USA to bring home the golds!
Things just haven't been the same since the fall of the Soviet Union. The USA/USSR rivalry was great and I am sure the Russians enjoyed it too.
When I was a kid we would play "Dome Hockey" at the roller rink and one team was the USSR and the other the USA, wow that was a fun game.
I used to have a computer game called Winter Games back in the 1980s and my friends and I would compete against each other under the USA, USSR, DDR, FRD flags. Ah, great memories of cold war sports.
byronicle6 From New Zealand, joined Oct 2011, 262 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (11 months 1 week 23 hours ago) and read 1580 times:
I'd be really interested to know what country has the highest medal count from Olympics based on population. My guess is Australia would come out on top
There are websites that can give this figure but Australia don't come near the top, the ones that do are with much smaller populations, New Zealand actually comes out at about the same but there is much jiggery pokery that could skew results one way or another (not wrongly I might add).
Does a medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics count less than a medal from 1936 Berlin olympics as ther was more to get.
Do we count just golds or all medals and are they all weighted equally?
DO we count the population as of now or as of when the olympic medal was won or maybe even the average of the population in the proceeding 4 years when the training occurred?
It would be interesting to crunch some numbers on this.
Sorry for making an interesting and simple topic sound complicated, I love numbers and I love them to be right/well defined.
zckls04 From United States of America, joined Dec 2011, 778 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (11 months 1 week 18 hours ago) and read 1503 times:
Obviously the winner will be the greatest country in the world, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC!
Quoting byronicle6 (Reply 7): I'd be really interested to know what country has the highest medal count from Olympics based on population. My guess is Australia would come out on top
From Beijing, here's the top ten, ordered by population/medal
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
canoecarrier From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2657 posts, RR: 12 Reply 14, posted (11 months 1 week 15 hours ago) and read 1429 times:
Quoting falstaff (Reply 5): When I was a kid we would play "Dome Hockey" at the roller rink and one team was the USSR and the other the USA, wow that was a fun game.
I'm dating myself here, but I remember as a kid when the USSR boycotted the 1984 LA Olympics. At the same time McDonalds had a sweepstakes on where if the US won a medal and you had some kind of token off their soda drink you would win a free meal or something. I had dozen of free happy meals that year.
But, I do miss the competition in gymnastics with the Romanians and Soviets. As well as other sports like water polo and some of the shooting sports.
Quoting Stabilator (Reply 3): Depends if China is bringing their 10 y.o gymnists again!
Or diving! As long as China keeps sending over 50 lb 10 year olds and the sport is scored on the size of the splash they make in the water, it's hard to find it fair.
I'll cheer for the US, but I do love the occasional athlete from a small, rather obscure country (in sports) who wins a medal. Like when a Sri Lankan woman won a silver in Sydney, I'm sure she's a national heroin.
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