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EU Puts Itself On Top Of Olympic Medal Table ...

Mortyman From Norway, joined Aug 2006, 3237 posts, RR: 2
Posted (10 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1641 times:

EU PUTS ITSELF TOP OF OLYMPIC MEDAL TABLE...AND BRITAIN IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN

Funny ....

The British are not happy about this

http://www.medaltracker.eu/index.php?article_id=1

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...-and-Britain-is-nowhere-to-be-seen

I'm sure it's just amother way of many ways one can present such a statistic though. It's not like the medals were given out to the EU as organisation.

and all of a sudden, Norway as a non mmber is alot higher on the table ... Smile

[Edited 2012-08-17 21:46:11]

13 replies: All unread, jump to last

KiwiRob From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 5424 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (10 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1622 times:

Quoting Mortyman (Thread starter):

http://www.medaltracker.eu/index.php..._id=1

The table is wrong NZ has 6 gold medals and 2 silver, not 5 gold, 3 silver.

MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13369 posts, RR: 64
Reply 2, posted (10 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1611 times:

Who cares if some numbnut in the EU headquarters shooots off his mouth? Doesn´t he have anything better to do? After all the Olympic games are still a competition between individual athletes and not nations.

Jan

QFA380 From Australia, joined Jul 2005, 2044 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (10 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1607 times:

Quoting MD11Engineer (Reply 2):

I think the smilies give away the lack of seriousness with this.

This is just a random company that is used as an EU propaganda machine, floating the idea of a unified EU in future Olympics because then the EU would completely dominate. I think some in the EU are jealous that the massive and diverse China and US are able to compete in the Olympics (and others things such as GDP) under one flag while Europeans 'have' to compete for their home countries despite North Dakotans to Rhode Islanders and Tibetans to Guandongans(?) being more different to each other than some country pairs in the EU.

Quokkas From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (10 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1604 times:

Quoting Mortyman (Thread starter):
It's not like the medals were given out to the EU as organisation.

The EU didn't even field a team. It is quite funny though. Notice the way they spell Qatar? - with a K.

As you say, you can present statistics any way one likes. Not surprising the readers of the Daily Express would be choking on their bacon and eggs.

Fortunately this is just a fun presentation by a private marketing and research organisation that has included among its clients various EU and German organisations.

flood From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 1144 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (10 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1584 times:

Quoting Mortyman (Thread starter):
The British are not happy about this

I thought it was pretty funny though Smile

[Edited 2012-08-17 23:27:44]

scbriml From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2003, 11446 posts, RR: 50
Reply 6, posted (10 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1518 times:

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Quoting Mortyman (Thread starter):
The British are not happy about this

Just a moment, define "British" in this context. The Daily Express (and presumably its readers) possibly. The rest of us really don't care.

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David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 9246 posts, RR: 42
Reply 7, posted (10 months 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 1435 times:

Quoting scbriml (Reply 6):
Just a moment, define "British" in this context. The Daily Express (and presumably its readers) possibly. The rest of us really don't care.

If the Russians want to add up the medals won by former CIS countries or Soviet states then they can. If someone wants to add up all the medals won by countries beginning with "A" then they can. I suspect most British people will just roll their eyes and point out that we don't need to play with the numbers (this time, anyway).

Klaus From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 20902 posts, RR: 55
Reply 8, posted (10 months 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1388 times:

Germany and the other european countries aren't listed separately either, of course.

I don't see the problem here – it is perfectly valid to look at things that way as well for perspective, and indeed interesting to see in aggregate. There are also lists comparing the continents to each other (including those which don't have any supranational political structures) or lists showing wins distributed among US or german regional states.

All these lists are perfectly valid (if done correctly) and none of them take anything away from the official tally according to the officially participating NOCs.

Revelation From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 10571 posts, RR: 21
Reply 9, posted (10 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1335 times:

Quoting QFA380 (Reply 3):
I think some in the EU are jealous that the massive and diverse China and US are able to compete in the Olympics (and others things such as GDP) under one flag while Europeans 'have' to compete for their home countries despite North Dakotans to Rhode Islanders and Tibetans to Guandongans(?) being more different to each other than some country pairs in the EU.

They should be more concerned that the Euro Zone nations are collectively on the hook for the bonds that the PIGS sell.

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Aesma From France, joined Nov 2009, 4934 posts, RR: 9
Reply 10, posted (10 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1226 times:

The EU as a single country wouldn't get the same number of medals as a lot of European athletes wouldn't have qualified. On the other hand such a massive change would probably need a change of the IOC rules anyway, and maybe a change in the sports too, as cycling for example would be decimated.

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aloha73g From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2305 posts, RR: 5
Reply 11, posted (10 months 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 1071 times:

They'd only have one EU team in team competitions. For instance in Men's Hanball, EU countries won 2 of 3 medals. If they all competed as the EU, that would be a max of 1 medal. Same goes for Men's & Women's Field Hockey.

All in all a meaningless summation of medals that doesn't really reflect reality.

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Pyrex From Portugal, joined Aug 2005, 3542 posts, RR: 28
Reply 12, posted (10 months 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1033 times:

Quoting MD11Engineer (Reply 2):
Who cares if some numbnut in the EU headquarters shooots off his mouth?

Hmm... the people who pay this EurocRAT's large tax-free salary and benefits?

Quoting Quokkas (Reply 4):
a private marketing and research organisation

A "private" marketing organization whose objective is to help educate people and businesses about the Euro. How many non-government clients do you reckon they have, with a mission statement like that? This is nothing more than an arm of the EU propaganda machine.

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Quokkas From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 13, posted (10 months 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1019 times:

Quoting Pyrex (Reply 12):
How many non-government clients do you reckon they have

•ZDF
•SCHOTT AG
•SCHOTT Solar AG
•Deutsche Bank AG
•Citibank Privatkunden AG & Co. KGaA
•Deutscher Herold AG (Zurich Gruppe Deutschland)
•Bonnfinanz AG (Zurich Gruppe Deutschland)
•Globale Krankenversicherungs AG
•Finanzen.de AG
•Provinzial Rheinland Versicherung AG. Die Versicherung der Sparkassen
•Kreissparkasse Köln

They also have several health insurance clients on their books.

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