Olympic is not representative at all, a single guy can win 8 medal by swimming but a team of 10-12 people going first place is only counted as only one medal. And only one medal for a sport in wich there is easily 100 times more people parcticing for it (football and basketball especialy).

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Braavos36390 Posts

August 24 2008 17:29 GMT

#42

On August 25 2008 02:00 1tym wrote:

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.... Is that why USA didn't win World Baseball Classics 2006?

baseball is not as popular as football or basketball in the united states, and the US team is certainly not the favorite in baseball when it comes to international competition when you compare them to the latin american or caribbean nations. his point was that with the NBA and NFL sucking so many great athletes in, the best athletes aren't participating in the Olympic sports.

if you look at China or other countries with state-sponsored programs, their olympians are taken care of for most of their lives. in the US, despite the wealth and facilities, the costs are extremely high to raise an kid training for an olympic event, and very few get $ from sponsorships or other things. there's no state helping you out, you pay your way through all the practicing.

i'm not saying we should be so impressed with the american medal count (they do have the most, despite not the most golds), but we shouldn't dismiss it either. China and the US were expected to win the most medals, and they did. A lot of the medals came in sports they weren't the favorites in.

BlackJack

United States10574 Posts

August 24 2008 17:30 GMT

#43

*Win 161 medals, OR, exile 600 million people

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Braavos36390 Posts

August 24 2008 17:32 GMT

#44

what

BlackJack

United States10574 Posts

August 24 2008 17:35 GMT

#45

huh

1tym

Korea (South)2425 Posts

August 24 2008 17:36 GMT

#46

[X]Ken_D

United States4650 Posts

August 24 2008 17:44 GMT

#47

???????

The "feel good thread" for countries that didn't win enough medals

1tym

Korea (South)2425 Posts

August 24 2008 17:49 GMT

#48

For the record I never said US and China performed poorly in this Olympic. They impressed me the most. This is just looking at it from another perspective. Also this isn't a 'feel good thread' for me personally because Korea is ranked 29th in this chart.

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Braavos36390 Posts

August 24 2008 17:54 GMT

#49

On August 25 2008 02:49 1tym wrote:
For the record I never said US and China performed poorly in this Olympic. They impressed me the most. This is just looking at it from another perspective. Also this isn't a 'feel good thread' for me personally because Korea is ranked 29th in this chart.

i don't think anyone is saying anything about korea or a korean bias, but you keep defending against some sort of imaginary attack for whatever reason lol

1tym

Korea (South)2425 Posts

August 24 2008 18:05 GMT

#50

I'm not defending anything about Korea per se. This is to explain that the intention behind opening this thread is not merely to create something countries with less medal counts can masturbate to. It's the Americans in this thread that are defending hard.

HamerD

United Kingdom1922 Posts

August 24 2008 18:12 GMT

#51

There's probably something like, probably quite un-pc about it but...it seems that the more people you have in a country then the more tards you have. Especially when there is welfare for having children. The dumb, incompetent people in society have loads of kids and the successful, competant ones have less. And, forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't quite a lot of china's population in rural areas or essentially, away from the hustle and bustle of the city and of international games and such? I don't think you could ever get a big country high up on those charts for those reasons.

sundance

Slovakia3201 Posts

August 24 2008 18:19 GMT

#52

On August 25 2008 03:05 1tym wrote:
I'm not defending anything about Korea per se. This is to explain that the intention behind opening this thread is not merely to create something countries with less medal counts can masturbate to. It's the Americans in this thread that are defending hard.

Explaining and defending are two different things.