The Olympic Thread

[HoyaSaxa03]

that snowboard cross is A LOT of fun to watch, i almost wish it were a longer course so we'd see more passing and bumping ... would be a good video game ...

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by brennser:
  I'm really loving all the US fuck-ups this time around!

Medals Table
 Last Updated:   G    S    B    Total
 1. US           6   3   1   10
 2. Germany   5   4   2   11
 3. Russia   5   2   4   11
 4. Austria   3   2   1   6
 5. Estonia   3   0   0   3
 6. Switzerland   2   2   1   5
 7. Sweden   2   1   1   4
 8. Italy   2   0   3   5
 9. France   2   0   2   4
 10. Norway   1   6   6   13

[brennser]

ha, ha, ha....oooh, lets make a table giving gold medals more weight so we can still be first....you guys are insufferable.......
 
 how about a population weighted table Hoya?
 
 

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  I'm really loving all the US fuck-ups this time around!

Medals Table
 Last Updated:   G    S    B    Total
 1. US           6   3   1   10
 2. Germany   5   4   2   11
 3. Russia   5   2   4   11
 4. Austria   3   2   1   6
 5. Estonia   3   0   0   3
 6. Switzerland   2   2   1   5
 7. Sweden   2   1   1   4
 8. Italy   2   0   3   5
 9. France   2   0   2   4
 10. Norway   1   6   6   13 [/b]

[brennser]

and the point still stands...sure you'll end up with a boatload of medals (most of them in those newfangled sports that were designed to boost US medal totals) but there have been a bunch of flops/dissapointments...Ohno, Miller, the snowboardcross woman etc etc
 
 

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  I'm really loving all the US fuck-ups this time around!

Medals Table
 Last Updated:   G    S    B    Total
 1. US           6   3   1   10
 2. Germany   5   4   2   11
 3. Russia   5   2   4   11
 4. Austria   3   2   1   6
 5. Estonia   3   0   0   3
 6. Switzerland   2   2   1   5
 7. Sweden   2   1   1   4
 8. Italy   2   0   3   5
 9. France   2   0   2   4
 10. Norway   1   6   6   13 [/b]

[brennser]

34th place...not too shabby, behind Azerbaijan but really teaching the Dominican Republic a lesson
 
  :p  
 
 Rank   Country   Gold   Silver   Bronze   Gold/Million
 1   THE BAHAMAS   1   0   1   3.1546
 2   NORWAY   5   0   1   1.0965
 3   AUSTRALIA   17   16   16   0.8547
 4   CUBA   9   7   11   0.7965
 5   HUNGARY   8   6   3   0.7905
 6   JAMAICA   2   1   2   0.7576
 7   NEW ZEALAND   3   2   0   0.7483
 8   GREECE   6   6   4   0.5618
 9   SWEDEN   4   1   2   0.4466
 10   GEORGIA   2   2   0   0.3902
 11   SLOVAKIA   2   2   2   0.3717
 12   DENMARK   2   0   6   0.3713
 13   ROMANIA   8   5   6   0.3604
 14   LITHUANIA   1   2   0   0.2895
 15   BULGARIA   2   1   9   0.2556
 16   IRELAND   1   0   0   0.2534
 17   AUSTRIA   2   4   1   0.2482
 18   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES   1   0   0   0.2475
 19   NETHERLANDS   4   9   9   0.2467
 20   CROATIA   1   2   2   0.2244
 21   BELARUS   2   6   7   0.2024
 22   RUSSIA   27   27   38   0.1883
 23   KOREA, SOUTH   9   12   9   0.1878
 24   UKRAINE   9   5   9   0.1861
 25   FRANCE   11   9   13   0.1842
 26   ITALY   10   11   11   0.1735
 27   GERMANY   14   16   18   0.1696
 28   UNITED KINGDOM (GREAT BRITAIN)   9   9   12   0.1518
 29   ISRAEL   1   0   1   0.1495
 30   SWITZERLAND   1   1   3   0.1362
 31   CHILE   2   0   1   0.1268
 32   JAPAN   16   9   12   0.1258
 33   AZERBAIJAN   1   0   4   0.1215
 34   UNITED STATES   35   39   29   0.1203
 35   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC   1   0   0   0.1144

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by brennser:
  but there have been a bunch of flops/dissapointments...Ohno, Miller, the snowboardcross woman etc etc
 

you and i both know that hype never automatically translates to medals, i wouldn't consider media hype and no medal to be a dissapointment, unless you're NBC ... now, that women's snowboardcross is a BIG flop

[HoyaSaxa03]

PS:  I'm getting sick of the ESPN intelligentsia ripping on the olympics, i'm really enjoying them this year

[ggw]

Originally posted by brennser:
  and the point still stands...sure you'll end up with a boatload of medals (most of them in those newfangled sports that were designed to boost US medal totals) but there have been a bunch of flops/dissapointments...Ohno, Miller, the snowboardcross woman etc etc
 

The last three sports added to the winter olympics were:
 
 1. Curling - invented in Scotland and far more popular in Europe and Canada than in the U.S.
 2. Skeleton - Developed in St. Moritz.  Big in the Alpine countries.
 3. Snowboarding - Maybe you can say this is a U.S.-favored sport, but considering it's become the most popular winter sport (after skiing), I don't see how it could have ever been excluded from the Olympics.

[chaz]

Originally posted by brennser:
  I'm really loving all the US fuck-ups this time around!
 
 Heres the latest.....
 
  http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/5113610/detail.html?qs=pt=espn

Hey man if you're gonna rag on the US then you can just sail on back to that rock you came from!  

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
  PS:  I'm getting sick of the ESPN intelligentsia ripping on the olympics, i'm really enjoying them this year

i keep telling people, and i will say it again.
 
 
 TSN.CA
 
   its better coverage of international sports and hockey.  if you want news on anything going on that doesnt ONLY concern America, go there.  if you want MLB, NFL, NBA or NCAA news, you can go to ESPN, otherwise, you just end up with watered down, misinformation, with some bad humour mixed in
 
 
  oh, and Canada has been pretty darn disappointing this olympics too.

[HoyaSaxa03]

U! ... S! ... A!
 
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[Guiny]

Originally posted by brennser:
  ha, ha, ha....oooh, lets make a table giving gold medals more weight so we can still be first....you guys are insufferable.......
 
 how about a population weighted table Hoya?
 

[/QB][/QUOTE]
 
 Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! God, someone give this guy a bottle today.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  ha, ha, ha....oooh, lets make a table giving gold medals more weight so we can still be first....you guys are insufferable.......
 
 how about a population weighted table Hoya?
 

[/b]

Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! God, someone give this guy a bottle today. [/QB][/QUOTE]
 
 
 i think you need to recognize the difference of someone complaining and someone poking fun.

[brennser]

poor Rob - always taking things so seriously
 
 anyway, well done to everyone for quite rightly jumping to your countries defence....I was only trying to get a rise out of you all
 
 as I'm quite sure my kids are going to be supremely talented at both summer and winter olympic sports I'm sure we'll face a tough decision down the road as to whether the compete under the Irish, Filipino or US flags!

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  and the point still stands...sure you'll end up with a boatload of medals (most of them in those newfangled sports that were designed to boost US medal totals) but there have been a bunch of flops/dissapointments...Ohno, Miller, the snowboardcross woman etc etc
 

The last three sports added to the winter olympics were:
 
 1. Curling - invented in Scotland and far more popular in Europe and Canada than in the U.S.
 2. Skeleton - Developed in St. Moritz.  Big in the Alpine countries.
 3. Snowboarding - Maybe you can say this is a U.S.-favored sport, but considering it's become the most popular winter sport (after skiing), I don't see how it could have ever been excluded from the Olympics. [/b]

what about the short track skating?  that was recently introduced, wasnt it?
 
 and curling was in the Olympics as a demonstration event many times since 1924.