ithanos Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 As the last contest of these Olympic Games, to see who would top the Gold medals table, it came to the very last day - I for one was on the edge of my seat. USA were 2 golds behind China coming into the final day in which they were competing for 5 golds versus China only competing for 2 golds. US were in two Boxing finals but when I saw that the opponents were an Uzbekistani and a Cuban I flagged those away as Silvers, which turned out to be the case. The Women's Basketball and Volleyball finals were favoured to the US and they both went to form, two Golds. The surprise was Jennifer Valente winning the Women's Omnium. So Democracy 1, Communism 2 for this Olympics cycle Of course China will have a narrative for their netizens so will probably have Hong Kong's single Gold added to their tally. Dare they include Taiwan's 2 Golds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 19 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: Eat crow you salty bastards. U!S!A! I have decided to count the number of disciplines that countries won medals in as how we judge the medal table. As team GB won medals in 25 different sports, we are the winners. In your face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 I've just checked how well Serbia would do by that standard and I don't know how well we'd compare to others but our 9 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze) came in 7 different sports - taekwando, karate, water polo (gold), shooting (silver), volleyball, wrestling, 3x3 basketball (bronze). We only had taekwando (gold and bronze) and shooting (silver and bronze) with multiple medals. A lot of our athletes ended up fourth, most notably Djokovic, which could've added a couple of more sports. A pretty good spread, all things considered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winterfell is Burning Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 San Marino sent 5 athletes, and 3 won medals. That's some world-class efficiency right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 38 minutes ago, Winterfell is Burning said: San Marino sent 5 athletes, and 3 won medals. That's some world-class efficiency right there. Who were the 2 fucking losers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Winterfell is Burning said: San Marino sent 5 athletes, and 3 won medals. That's some world-class efficiency right there. Especially because they didn't have a single medal in the Olympics before Tokyo games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 5 hours ago, BigFatCoward said: I have decided to count the number of disciplines that countries won medals in as how we judge the medal table. As team GB won medals in 25 different sports, we are the winners. In your face. We still won the gold for WW2! You only got bronze. France tripped at the start of the race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 4 hours ago, BigFatCoward said: Who were the 2 fucking losers? One in judo, and a swimmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 I like the method of Gold and overall medals per capita. Without officially checking, i'm thinking Jamaica's is up there in ranking. For Winter games Norway. Eta: see San Marino must be a player under the per capita count as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 3 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: I like the method of Gold and overall medals per capita. Without officially checking, i'm thinking Jamaica's is up there in ranking. For Winter games Norway. Eta: see San Marino must be a player under the per capita count as well I believe Bermuda is top of golds per capita. San Marino might have beaten them on the overall medals per capita though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacuna Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 3 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: For Winter games Norway. Fairly sure we own the WO, per capita or not. Get on our level, scrubs. Spoiler Aided and abetted by some significant bloat in cross country skiing events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 20 minutes ago, lacuna said: Fairly sure we own the WO, per capita or not. Get on our level, scrubs. Hide contents Aided and abetted by some significant bloat in cross country skiing events. I remember a few years ago a women's cross country relay where Norway 1 came first, Norway 2 came 2nd, Norway 3 came 3rd, then I think Finland snuck in 4th, and Norway 4 came 5th. As my sister married a Norwegian and used to live down the hill from Hollmenkollen, I live vicariously through them at the winter Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 hour ago, lacuna said: Fairly sure we own the WO, per capita or not. Get on our level, scrubs. Hide contents Aided and abetted by some significant bloat in cross country skiing events. I've read that Liechtenstein beats everyone per capita, 10 medals (all skiing) for 38000 people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 On 8/9/2021 at 8:11 AM, ithanos said: As the last contest of these Olympic Games, to see who would top the Gold medals table, it came to the very last day - I for one was on the edge of my seat. USA were 2 golds behind China coming into the final day in which they were competing for 5 golds versus China only competing for 2 golds. US were in two Boxing finals but when I saw that the opponents were an Uzbekistani and a Cuban I flagged those away as Silvers, which turned out to be the case. The Women's Basketball and Volleyball finals were favoured to the US and they both went to form, two Golds. The surprise was Jennifer Valente winning the Women's Omnium. So Democracy 1, Communism 2 for this Olympics cycle Of course China will have a narrative for their netizens so will probably have Hong Kong's single Gold added to their tally. Dare they include Taiwan's 2 Golds? I was curious about that also, so I asked my Chinese wife to help me surf some Chinese language websites. We only found reports of 38 gold medals for China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 14, 2021 Author Share Posted August 14, 2021 Yes if it were extended to claimed territories(stspk) China would pick up 3 more Golds, 1 from HK and 2 from Taiwan, giving them 41 to the U.S. 40, who would no doubt count Puerto Rico"s 1 gold as theirs under such a dispute. Best to let sleeping dogs lie than go down this road imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 15, 2021 Author Share Posted August 15, 2021 At the Prefontaine Classic (a race at the University of Oregon) later this month 6 of the 8 Tokyo 100 meter womans finals racers will face off.......plus ShaCarri Richardson (who tragically missed out on the Olympics) will be a 7th runner. Pheww...hope the track doesn't ignite in flames, that's gonna be like a drag race or something! https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2021/08/14/shacarri-richardson-racing-olympic-medalists-prefontaine-classic/8138734002/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 22, 2021 Author Share Posted August 22, 2021 On 8/15/2021 at 3:24 AM, DireWolfSpirit said: At the Prefontaine Classic (a race at the University of Oregon) later this month 6 of the 8 Tokyo 100 meter womans finals racers will face off.......plus ShaCarri Richardson (who tragically missed out on the Olympics) will be a 7th runner. Pheww...hope the track doesn't ignite in flames, that's gonna be like a drag race or something! https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2021/08/14/shacarri-richardson-racing-olympic-medalists-prefontaine-classic/8138734002/ So the follow up on this is a little surprising that ShaCarri wasn't too competitive. She finished last. The Jamaicans, unsurprisingly, finished 1,2, and 3 though. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2021/08/21/shacarri-richardson-interview-race-finishes-ninth-prefontaine-classic/8231128002/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 10 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: So the follow up on this is a little surprising that ShaCarri wasn't too competitive. She finished last. The Jamaicans, unsurprisingly, finished 1,2, and 3 though. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2021/08/21/shacarri-richardson-interview-race-finishes-ninth-prefontaine-classic/8231128002/ She ran like she had a smoke 5 mins before the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 11 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: So the follow up on this is a little surprising that ShaCarri wasn't too competitive. She finished last. The Jamaicans, unsurprisingly, finished 1,2, and 3 though. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2021/08/21/shacarri-richardson-interview-race-finishes-ninth-prefontaine-classic/8231128002/ Talk about sports with no margin for error. 56 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said: She ran like she had a smoke 5 mins before the start. That's rather unnecessary. She could probably run 200m before you could run 100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 22, 2021 Author Share Posted August 22, 2021 Elaine Thompson Herah is knocking on FloJo's door for fastest woman ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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