Official Olympic Sport Thread

[TimberWolf]

If you type "Olympic medal results" into Google, it displays medal results on the rhs. And if you slide the slider all the way down past Romania, Geogia, Brazil, Australia, Netherlands, etc, you see the that the UK has no gold medals yet.

Aren't they supposed to let us win some for hosting?

[original PM]

went to watch the footy at Old Trafford yesterday.

was a great atmosphere!

Brazil won

Egypt and New Zealand drew but Egypt missed some many sitters at the end they must be gutted!

[d000hg]

It's all going wrong for Team GB. Our medal prospects seem to be dropping like flies. Even Ben Ainslie is going backwards down the places, and I thought he was nailed on after three successive golds.

Sailing has a lot of unpredictability, it's very common to have a few bad races... very very rare for the winner to be top-3 in every race.

It's so normal that they let you discard your worst result.

[darmstadt]

It's all going wrong for Team GB. Our medal prospects seem to be dropping like flies. Even Ben Ainslie is going backwards down the places, and I thought he was nailed on after three successive golds.

Look at the Germans, nada, zilch, not a sausage. The German press are scathing....

[TimberWolf]

Just pasted the top 21 country medal leaders (so that the UK would just scrape through) into a spread sheet and added the country's population, then sorted into ascending Pop/medals order, and lo, China comes out bottom rather than top and the UK still does tulip.

After sorting into ascending Pop/medals order, can't be arsed to format.

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Tot	Population	Pop/medals
16		Lithuania	1	-	-	1	3,203,000	3,203,000
12		Hungary	1	1	1	3	10,014,324	3,338,108
16		Georgia	1	-	-	1	4,469,200	4,469,200
10		Australia	1	2	1	4	22,620,600	5,655,150
4		DPR Korea	3	-	1	4	24,451,285	6,112,821
11		Romania	1	2	-	3	21,390,000	7,130,000
5		Italy	2	4	2	8	60,770,000	7,596,250
8		Kazakhstan	2	-	-	2	16,558,459	8,279,230
14		Netherlands	1	1	-	2	16,696,000	8,348,000
3		France	3	1	3	7	65,436,552	9,348,079
9		Japan	1	4	6	11	127,817,277	11,619,752
6		Korea	2	2	2	6	73,000,000	12,166,667
15		Ukraine	1	-	2	3	45,706,100	15,235,367
2		United States	5	7	5	17	311,591,917	18,328,936
20		United Kingdom	-	1	2	3	62,641,000	20,880,333
19		Colombia	-	2	-	2	46,927,125	23,463,563
7		Russia	2	-	3	5	141,930,000	28,386,000
16		South Africa	1	-	-	1	50,586,757	50,586,757
12		Brazil	1	1	1	3	196,655,014	65,551,671
1		China	9	5	3	17	1,344,130,000	79,066,471

[d000hg]

What about by GDP? Clearly you have the free time

[gingerjedi]

I know we didn't get off to the best of starts with the Olympics, what with the Korean flag debacle. But at least we got the swiss flag right, which I think is a big plus.

[Doggy Styles]

I know we didn't get off to the best of starts with the Olympics, what with the Korean flag debacle. But at least we got the swiss flag right, which I think is a big plus.

Furthermore, the welshmen have been told they don't have to sing the UK national anthem.

Apparently Stuart Pearce doesn't give a monkey's.