[Mars]

Olympic metals by country

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Olympic metals by country

I stand vindicated.

Arrr...I've hit 888 posts.

[Ghostavo]

My state's owned TV station has been broadcasting female volleyball matches just about every day... I've never been so proud of it! 

[neo_hermes]

  i wish i was there ghost.

[colecampbell666]

Olympic metals by country

I see Zinc, Copper, Iron, Carbon, and a bunch of other metals.

[aRaven]

Olympic metals by country

I see Zinc, Copper, Iron, Carbon, and a bunch of other metals.

You're forgetting Gold, Silver and Bronze metals ^^.

[Akalabeth Angel]

They should go even further and pull the medals for the whole gymnastics team at least.  Since it was a government conspiracy I think they should take every medal away from the entire Chinese team.  If it was steroids then the person would be stripped, if the person was on a team the team would be stripped, if the country pushed it why not strip the country?  Same with the age thing. 

    Oh please, that's getting a little ridiculous.

[Mars]

Since when is being prepubescent an advantage in anything?

[colecampbell666]

Since the rest of the world wasn't allowed to bring in younger athletes, some of whom may be spectacular athletes.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Since the rest of the world wasn't allowed to bring in younger athletes, some of whom may be spectacular athletes.

   Oh please, it's not about the athletes. It's about the money used to train the athletes. That's how countries get medals. Michael Phelps wouldn't be raking in medals if he was working two jobs to cover pool and living expenses.

   You want a level playing field? How about budgetary restrictions on olympic funding rated on a per discipline basis.
   Age is irrelevant in comparison.

[NGTM-1R]

Since when is being prepubescent an advantage in anything?

Greater flexiblity, and also gymnastics at that level has a lot to do with nerve. The younger you are, the more you are willing to attempt things that do not seem wise. The US team lost a medal because one of the girls lost her nerve, pretty much. Don't tell me being younger isn't an advantage.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

In addition to being more flexible they are also shorter and lighter.  Also since it's Womens they probably haven't hit puberty yet so no extra curves to throw off center of gravity. 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

In addition to being more flexible they are also shorter and lighter.  Also since it's Womens they probably haven't hit puberty yet so no extra curves to throw off center of gravity. 

I thought puberty starts at 11.

[Mars]

Umm... it varies... widely, it can start as young as eight and old as fourteen, and I'm sure it can start older and younger given unusual enough circumstances

[Mefustae]

I can't honestly take the Olympics seriously after I heard Phelps describe the Olympic Village as one giant orgy. I really can't.


I'm too ****ing envious of those ****ing Olympians!!

[TrashMan]

Oh please, it's not about the athletes. It's about the money used to train the athletes. That's how countries get medals. Michael Phelps wouldn't be raking in medals if he was working two jobs to cover pool and living expenses.

I'd say it's also about other factors - country size and population.

When you have 300 million or 1 billion people as a pool for which to recruit talents - far different than when you have 5-10 million people from which to recruit athletes.
then of course the finances are also important. And steroids, additives and stuff like that.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Oh please, it's not about the athletes. It's about the money used to train the athletes. That's how countries get medals. Michael Phelps wouldn't be raking in medals if he was working two jobs to cover pool and living expenses.

I'd say it's also about other factors - country size and population.

When you have 300 million or 1 billion people as a pool for which to recruit talents - far different than when you have 5-10 million people from which to recruit athletes.
then of course the finances are also important. And steroids, additives and stuff like that.

Steroids? You're referring to some of the athletes who got disqualified because they took steroids?

[Kie99]

Olympic metals by country

@ The American Website ranking it on medals won instead of Golds like every other site.

[Mars]

Losing hurts

[karajorma]

@ The American Website ranking it on medals won instead of Golds like every other site.

Yeah. Especially as you could bet they'd rank it the other way round if they were in China's position.