EPTOn August 13 2012 05:28 TonyL2 wrote:
Emeli Sande. Didn't she sing this earlier?
Emeli Sande. Didn't she sing this earlier?
Yeh they seem to want to give her like 5 performances lol!
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sinii
England989 Posts
Yeh they seem to want to give her like 5 performances lol! | ||
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Grettin
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I Don't follow her that closely lol. Just my wild guess! | ||
Shellshock
United States97274 Posts
On August 13 2012 05:00 Eufouria wrote: According to American media the USA came top in Beijing. the bigger tragedy is we almost reached the point where Russia was going to pass China in the standings since we traditionally do it by total medal count. All week NBC's medal count has listed Russia ahead of England even though they were behind as much as 25-12 in the gold medal count, but Russia won so many bronze and silver medals. They finished only 5 total medals behind China even though they are 14 golds down. Had htey theoretically earned 6 more silver/bronze medals, NBC would have ranked Russia ahead of China | ||
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TonyL2
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hzflank
United Kingdom2991 Posts
On August 13 2012 05:32 Shellshock1122 wrote: the bigger tragedy is we almost reached the point where Russia was going to pass China in the standings since we traditionally do it by total medal count. All week NBC's medal count has listed Russia ahead of England even though they were behind as much as 25-12 in the gold medal count, but Russia won so many bronze and silver medals. They finished only 5 total medals behind China even though they are 14 golds down. Had htey theoretically earned 6 more silver/bronze medals, NBC would have ranked Russia ahead of China For as long as I can remember, the IOC has ranked it by number of golds and not number of combined medals. | ||
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La1
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Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
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Shellshock
United States97274 Posts
On August 13 2012 05:38 hzflank wrote: For as long as I can remember, the IOC has ranked it by number of golds and not number of combined medals. yea I know I was talking about the American media. we always rank by total medal count for some reason | ||
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radiatoren
Denmark1907 Posts
On August 13 2012 05:32 Shellshock1122 wrote: the bigger tragedy is we almost reached the point where Russia was going to pass China in the standings since we traditionally do it by total medal count. All week NBC's medal count has listed Russia ahead of England even though they were behind as much as 25-12 in the gold medal count, but Russia won so many bronze and silver medals. They finished only 5 total medals behind China even though they are 14 golds down. Had htey theoretically earned 6 more silver/bronze medals, NBC would have ranked Russia ahead of China I fully support the SpaceDominator way of doing things with a system where gold is 3 points, silver is 2 points and bronze is 1 point. Realistically it is nonsense no matter what, but gold first is clearly bad in terms of representing the best overall, total medals is a lot better. Combinations win hands down... Next thing would be to start differentiating gold medals by values, since shooting shotgun and winning in basketball has different difficulties, but then you are getting all googled. | ||
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DwD
Sweden8621 Posts
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sinii
England989 Posts
On August 13 2012 05:46 radiatoren wrote: I fully support the SpaceDominator way of doing things with a system where gold is 3 points, silver is 2 points and bronze is 1 point. Realistically it is nonsense no matter what, but gold first is clearly bad in terms of representing the best overall, total medals is a lot better. Combinations win hands down... I would say total medals is just as bad as gold exclusive tables. Weighted would clearly be the better system, no idea why it isn't used. | ||
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Serpico
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On August 13 2012 05:44 Shellshock1122 wrote: yea I know I was talking about the American media. we always rank by total medal count for some reason Because they hand out bronze and silver, therefore they matter. It shows depth of athletes from each country more accurately. | ||
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Trok67
France384 Posts
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
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Serpico
4285 Posts
On August 13 2012 05:51 WArped wrote: No more one direction please.. D: I love watching brits squirm when they come on, I was surprised they were THAT disliked. | ||
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
On August 13 2012 05:52 Serpico wrote: I love watching brits squirm when they come on, I was surprised they were THAT disliked. It's cool to hate them, like Beiber, that's all | ||
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Scodia
United Kingdom588 Posts
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AsnSensation
Germany24009 Posts
Was a nice olympics gj London, Im out of this thread peace out, see you in 4 years haah, or other threads | ||
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DwD
Sweden8621 Posts
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Juissi
Finland209 Posts
On August 13 2012 06:02 DwD wrote: Wow these guys got the most sickest ceremony for a sport no one cares about.... marathon.... And why you think no one cares? These guys usually ends the marathon at the stadium and marathon kinda symbolizes what olympics really are. | ||
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