Olympic metals Quantity or quality?
I see from this link they rank countries by how many Gold metals they have rather then metal count. http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/
They but Switzerland ahead of Canada with 3 metals while we have 18.
Japan is below Kazakhstan when they have 36 vs there 10.
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Medals.
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From statisticians with too much time on their hands...
Official medal ranking: #1 - USA
Medal ranking based on team size: #1 - China
Medal ranking based on GDP: #1 - Grenada
Medal ranking based on population: #1 - Grenada
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/data...ve-medal-table
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The fact that Canadians have stood on the podium 18 times so far is more than enough to keep me a proud Canadian. The gold medals aren't really made of gold anymore, anyway!
A wounded bird that crashes through your window can cause quite a commotion, but is essentially harmless.
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Have you seen the US media castigating the Brits for too much patriotism in their reporting??
That's freakin' hilarious!!!
''Our culture has accepted two huge lies: The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.''
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Metals
awesome!!
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We won. We always win. We are the greatest country...EVER.Originally Posted by Soundbear
You're envious.
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The greater they are, the harder they fall.
Envious of that inevitability??? Nah!!!
''Our culture has accepted two huge lies: The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.''
Re: Olympic metals Quantity or quality?
I would say quality over quantity. While having a lot of medal is nice, it is a competition to find out who has the best athletes in the world. Not the most 2nd or 3rd best athletes.
Keeping with that thought, do you remember 2010 when we were #1 the most gold medals beating out Germany and USA even though they had a better overall medal count.
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