USA cruises to victory in medals table

Originally posted by tim88
america and china have always dominated the medal tally, that and your always need to be right even though you know you wrong syndrome, i'm done talking to babies

Actually, back when the USSR was around, THEY used to be the polesitters.

Originally posted by tim88
america and china have always dominated the medal tally, that and your always need to be right even though you know you wrong syndrome, i'm done talking to babies

You made the assertion that the medal tally of the Olympics is always dominated by "the high population countries". When I demonstrated that this was wrong by taking a look at the 20 top "high population countries", you changed the subject by suggesting that it is in fact dominated by "countries that can afford to train and send their athletes to the Olympics".

Originally posted by tim88
america and china have always dominated the medal tally,...

The U.S. has topped the medal tally many times. But even just a cursory look reveals that China, while 'winning' in Beijing and coming runner up to the U.S. in Athens, has not really dominated the Olympics for much of the last 30 years, often coming a very distant 4th, and not even making the top ten in 1988.

edit: if we go back a further 20 years [1956-76] China won only a single bronze medal [in 1968] in three Olympics and didn't even contest the games in 1960, 1964 and 1976.

Population is irrelevant since you can only send a certain number of athletes in each event. For example, China can only send two single men's table tennis players even though the top 4 players in the world are from China. Both Chinese participants in that event made the final.

There are numerous other examples involving other sports and countries.

Originally posted by damionhonegan
Population is irrelevant since you can only send a certain number of athletes in each event. For example, China can only send two single men's table tennis players even though the top 4 players in the world are from China. Both Chinese participants in that event made the final.

There are numerous other examples involving other sports and countries.

While that limits the advantage of high population countries, it hardly negates the advantage entirely.

Too bad the Olympics are over. I rather enjoyed watching the US crush little countries like Timbuktoo. :'(

Originally posted by whodey
Too bad the Olympics are over. I rather enjoyed watching the US crush little countries like Timbuktoo. :'(

You must have been watching the Reds again.

That wasn't the entire USA beating them....just Milwaukee and others.

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I simply got it wrong. I even had the Taiwan flag on the screen here as I was totting up the medals and still failed to notice. My point about the last thirty years stands though.

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As I said, I simply got it wrong. I even had the Taiwan flag on the screen here as I was totting up the medals and still failed to notice. My point about the last thirty years stands though.

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Double post.