Olympics - who's winning?

[MrBishop]

SO far

Country Gold Silver Bronze TOT.
China 5 2 1 8
Australia 4 1 3 8
United States 1 4 3 8
Russia 1 3 2 6
Japan 4 1 0 5
France 1 2 2 5

You watching? I'm trying, but with no cable...my efforts are failing me.

[Dave]

been watching some of it. mostly the swimming events. no reason why mostly swimming, just seems to be on every time i tune in. been a few good meets.
saw the gymnastic prelims. had a hard time comprehending the speed and agility of some of the women gymnasts. some of that had to be special effects.

[HomeLAN]

Saw a bit of the gymnastics last night. Impressive stuff. The Romanians freaking OWN the balance beam.

[Shadowfax]

mainly been watching swimming as well...and hockey. that's about it...

i liked todays 200m free swim...with thorpe, van den hoogenband and phelps...
was an amazing swim from the australian guy :)

[MrBishop]

Personally, I like the combat sports, the weightlifting and most of the gymnastics. I can't stand the more 'artistic' gymnastics like the ribbon and the clubs...feh. Ditto for ballroom dancing.

The men's rings....damn!!

[AlladinSane]

Been paying attention to Volleyball, Judo, Iachting(?), and Gymnastics. Gennerally the sports where we used to play better(not gymn though, but it's wonderful). I just whished they would show the Boxing fights by the time I'm home...

[pc_builder]

I saw mostly the gymnastics last night, and some swimming.

Phelps won gold in a few events I think. All I remember is hearing them talk about Phelps and then seeing him win the gold in the medley I think it was called. The one where they do three laps each with a different style. Lochte came in second. Both Americans

Carly Patterson won the gold in the all around gymnastics competition. American. Something no other American has done since Mary Lou Retton (spelling?). Apparently Mary even called Carly afterwards to congratulate her.

Too bad for Svetlana (sp?) Khorkina (Russia). She won the silver in the all around. This is her last gymnastics I'm told (she's 25).

Zhang Nan (can't remember spelling) of China won 3rd in the all around.

See? Gymnastics was all I saw so far. Haven't been watching otherwise. Just happened to turn on the TV and there were girls flipping all over the place. And yes, I know they were all too young for me. ('cept Khorkina)

No wait. I think they said a couple of them were like 18 or something.

[Oz]

I don't think the brits sent a team this year :lloyd:

We couldn't even win much in the "rowing the bathtub backwards before the soap melts" competition :mope:

[Gonz]

You guys won Gold in the "Funny Hat Wearing', Long Red-Tailed Dog Chasing" event dincha?

[Oz]

You guys won Gold in the "Funny Hat Wearing', Long Red-Tailed Dog Chasing" event dincha?

We won a gold??? ....... fuck me, he/she musta been on drugs or summit :D

[BeardofPants]

NZ finally got a gold in the women's double sculls 2000m event. Go Swindell twins. :D

[Kawaii]

We got a gold medal! And we OWNED you!
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/30/13/48/stortopp425.jpg

[chcr]

Anyone else notice that Iraq has made the medal round in soccer (that'd be "football" for all you heathen furrinurs).

[AlladinSane]

They still have to win Paraguay, and that will not be easy...

[Kawaii]

We got another one, we got another one!
NYAA~!
Go, Stefan Holm!
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/30/21/38/holmtopp425.jpg

Edit: A third one! Yay for Christian Olsson!
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/30/22/33/olssonpuffny118.jpg

[AlladinSane]

They still have to win Paraguay, and that will not be easy...
I was right, they didn't stand a chance. Though they can still beat Italy and win the Bronze...

[Professur]

The canucks are getting royally ass raped. Stands to reason. The athletes were chosen by the Canadian Olympic Council (COC).

[Inkara1]

It's too bad there's no word that starts with "K" to go after Council.

[Gonz]

Efharisto!

Final Standings (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/olympics/2004/medals.html)

[Luis G]

It'd seem as if there were no good athletes in latin america :(

The first country in the list is Cuba, with a very respectable rank by gold of 11th. Mexico left with no gold medals and ranked 60th.

[A.B.Normal]

Efharisto!

Final Standings (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/olympics/2004/medals.html)
Your link doesn't seem to work properly ,if others are also having probs with it ,try here http://www.athens2004.com/en/OlympicMedals/medals


Luis ,with my link your tied for 46th

MEX Mexico 0 3 1 4 =46

[Luis G]

I looked at the rank by gold :)

46th isn't that good either, even the argentinians got more medals.....not that it really matters but it pisses me off :grumpy:

It is worth making a notice that all our medals were won by women, except one. As it can be seen the macho self-esteem is very low around here, and we'll take steps to correct that........like not letting them go to compete next time :D :D

j/k :D

[Inkara1]

There's a common joke around here about Mexico's usual Olympic performance, poking fun at that and illegal immigration.

Q: Why does Mexico always stink it up at the Olympics?

A: Because all the Mexicans that can run, jump or swim are all in the US.