Medals Table - Top 10

[BrianSnail]

I hope we keep this up so that I can wind up the Germans

And the Australians!!

[bogeyman]

And the Australians!!

Finally! I see the entire point of the Olympics.

[Xenophon]

Overall medal table
Last updated: Aug 20 2008
Ranking Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 43 14 18 75
2 United States 26 26 27 79
3 Great Britain 16 10 10 36
4 Russia 12 14 18 44
5 Australia 11 12 12 35
6 Germany 11 8 9 28
7 South Korea 8 10 6 24
8 Japan 8 6 9 23
9 Italy 6 7 7 20
10 Ukraine 5 5 8 18

[ratewhore]

Saw Gordon Brown on the telly yesterday all smiles saying he was going to host a bash for team GB so he could meet them (bet they'll look forward to that one).

Crossed my mind that it is his party promoting 'fairness' to the extent where kids don't do competitive sports any more and grammar schools are bad cos they're elitist and more lefty bullcarp like that.

See what happens when you put money into people who show talent at something? They start winning. Shame he can't see the irony in that. Maybe if NL started focussing on high achieving pupils at school, the stats might start speaking for themselves...

Stab stabbity stab etc...

[Alf W]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7571901.stm

Whinge, whinge, whinge....

[TimberWolf]

Saw Gordon Brown on the telly yesterday all smiles saying he was going to host a bash for team GB so he could meet them (bet they'll look forward to that one).

Crossed my mind that it is his party promoting 'fairness' to the extent where kids don't do competitive sports any more and grammar schools are bad cos they're elitist and more lefty bullcarp like that.

See what happens when you put money into people who show talent at something? They start winning. Shame he can't see the irony in that. Maybe if NL started focussing on high achieving pupils at school, the stats might start speaking for themselves...

Stab stabbity stab etc...

Yeah, the Olympic ideal appears to be orthogonal to socialist principles. The fittest gets Gold while the majority of losers get nothing. All that money invested in stadiums, etc ends up with one person getting the Gold. Survival of the fittest at it's most basic, with a hefty dose of national tribalism thrown in for good measure.

[tay]

NZ has 3 gold medals now.. managed to crawl our way to 16th on the table.
About 1 gold per 1.3 million people.

[Diver]

NZ has 3 gold medals now.. managed to crawl our way to 16th on the table.
About 1 gold per 1.3 million people.

Yeh! all that time spent training a Dodo racing team was a bit of a wasted effort

[EternalOptimist]

Yeh! all that time spent training a Dodo racing team was a bit of a wasted effort

please leave Tay alone.
You guys obviously have no idea how hard it is to run the persuit in a pair of loose wellies

[tay]

And we still won a bronze in the pursuit! Lucky for you we werent wearing proper footwear....