Reply to: Official Olympic Sport Thread

[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.

[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.

[d000hg]

What about by GDP? Clearly you have the free time

[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

[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....

[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.

[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!

[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?

[Doggy Styles]

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.

[d000hg]

I'm struggling when watching several sports to keep track of the results... the BBC coverage is great but they don't show an on-screen list of results or flick back to one often. So in weightlifting or whatever, you have to remember who did what and it can take a long time.

I can't see a feed of the in-event stats on the BBC site for each event either, am I missing it and if not is this available elsewhere... just a simple "state of play" table is all I am after.

[Doggy Styles]

What happened to Front Crawl... I'm sure as a kid they had that AND Freestyle; did I mis-remember? Freestyle looks like front crawl to me anyway, is it the same thing?

IIRC there never was a Front Crawl event, not in my lifetime anyway. Just Freestyle, in which everyone did the front crawl anyway because it was fastest.

[d000hg]

Watching some more sailing. The 49er class is rather amazing, I would hate to sail something so extreme but it's a real showcase for how tech has impacted dinghies. Just hope we get a windy race to see them really flying.

And I see my class (the Laser) has just started too. Memories...

[DodgyAgent]

It was great and I really enjoyed the finish, she was just ' ' that far from gold. Showed the men a thing or two....

It was a bl**dy good job she won a medal as I had to down the A3 round the M25 and in on the M3 to get from Roehampton to Barnes yesterday

[darmstadt]

That was a brilliant race by her. Fully deserved a medal. None of that crap about staying in the peloton till the last minute and making a dash for it. Cav should really watch and learn from it.

It was great and I really enjoyed the finish, she was just ' ' that far from gold. Showed the men a thing or two....

[fullyautomatix]

C'mon Armitstead!

That was a brilliant race by her. Fully deserved a medal. None of that crap about staying in the peloton till the last minute and making a dash for it. Cav should really watch and learn from it.