The Olympics: Britain in the lead.
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Britains' performance at the Bejing Olympics is astounding. If you look at current geographic boundaries and gold medals, then the UK is in third place. Absolutely awesome, given that the average briton weighs 200kg and gets out of breath waiting in the McDonalds queue. Most schools have sold off their sports fields, and (thankfully), most sports teachers have been laid off. Given this background, its amazing that we excel at anything other than Sumo.
Now, since the US seems to want to spin its results to show that its in the lead (total medal count vs Gold Medals), then why not do some more statistical spinning. For instance, if you count the EU as a single superstate, analagous to the US Federation of States, we win.
Or even better, if you look at the British Empire at its peak.
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Absolutely amazing performance of the Great British Team worth every penny and fantastic for my morale
Hopefully for 2012 the other disciplines will benefit from the experience of the Cycling, Rowing and Sailing teams. Apparently the aforementioned teams have directed their funding very carefully and have been ruthless in team selection.
Perhaps we could have an some kind of Olympic feature in Lotusphere 2009....
Posted by Jason Hook At 10:53:56 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Ian Randall At 11:07:15 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
On a weighted medal count per head of population, we are in fact #1
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Posted by Michelle O'Rorke At 11:15:12 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Jason Hook At 11:23:49 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Me At 12:22:24 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Salty At 12:58:39 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
mmm.
And arent you technically a Brazillian, now ?
---* Bill
Posted by Wild Bill At 13:35:45 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
But, if you weight the results by population, India would really drag down the stats of the (former) British Empire. Only one medal and over one billion in population.
Posted by Raj At 16:38:06 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
However we should learn a lesson from China. They put together a commission with the sole goal of analysing the events which had weak competition and could be won by a very strict training regime.
Does help when you have a manpower pool the size of the whole of the Americas and the EU combined though.
Posted by NeilT At 20:25:41 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Steve McDonagh At 21:24:19 On 21/08/2008 | - Website - |
Although I saw somewhere that if we look at Gold medals per head of population then New Zealand is actually top of the table and we are second.
Posted by Tedette At 00:07:28 On 22/08/2008 | - Website - |
Only marginally more interesting than snooker, but in aid of charity.
---* Bill
Posted by Wild Bill At 01:28:01 On 22/08/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Scoot At 03:03:58 On 28/08/2008 | - Website - |