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whocares8x8
whocares8x8
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18:16 Tue 7 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
But the past is glorious!!
whocares8x8
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21:07 Tue 7 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
Speaking of the past, I just had a look at the all-time table.

1. USA (959 Gold, 745 Silver, 658 Bronze)
2. Soviets/Russia (511 Gold, 433 Silver, 424 Bronze)
3. Germany East and West (405 Gold, 427 Silver, 454 Bronze)
4. Great Britain (229 Gold, 268 Silver, 265 Bronze)

That's including the current ones (Chris Hoy's win just now is in there).
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21:43 Tue 7 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
Speaking of the past, I just had a look at the all-time table.

1. USA (959 Gold, 745 Silver, 658 Bronze)
2. Soviets/Russia (511 Gold, 433 Silver, 424 Bronze)
3. Germany East and West (405 Gold, 427 Silver, 454 Bronze)
4. Great Britain (229 Gold, 268 Silver, 265 Bronze)

That's including the current ones (Chris Hoy's win just now is in there).


But to be fair, I'd love to know how many of them were helped by performance enhancing drugs. I'm not having a dig at you I'm just saying

And also I know it probably wasn't enough to make a difference to that table.
whocares8x8
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01:35 Wed 8 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
Yeah, you can pretty much discount 90% the East German ones haha. They got around 100 golds I think, so take out about 90. Still enough for third
sarahh
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20:59 Thu 9 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
wooooooooo ireland win gold in the boxing , congrats to katie taylor , shes a legend , the crowd there were amazing so so loud
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15:20 Sat 11 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
After a bit of thought about gold medals, it got me wondering, "So China and the USA have more golds, but they also have more people, I guess that makes us a more talented nation". So, I took pencil to paper, and judging my mathematics are correct, I have a couple of statistics:

As it stands tonight, gold medals are as follows: China are 1st with 31, USA are 2nd with 29 and GBR are 3rd with 18.

The population of China is roughly 1,339,000,000. The population of the USA is roughly 314,000,000. And the population of the UK is around 60,000,000.

Meaning, that for every person born in China, 1 in around 43 million of them will win a gold medal. In the USA, 1 in around 11 million will win a gold medal. And in the UK, 1 in around 3 million will win a gold medal.

Even better still, going by the figures so far, this makes Great Britain roughly 3.6 times more talented than the USA, and a whopping 14.3 times more talented than China.

Now that makes me very proud to be British!
cledwyn
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21:53 Sat 11 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
After a bit of thought about gold medals, it got me wondering, "So China and the USA have more golds, but they also have more people, I guess that makes us a more talented nation". So, I took pencil to paper, and judging my mathematics are correct, I have a couple of statistics:

As it stands tonight, gold medals are as follows: China are 1st with 31, USA are 2nd with 29 and GBR are 3rd with 18.

The population of China is roughly 1,339,000,000. The population of the USA is roughly 314,000,000. And the population of the UK is around 60,000,000.

Meaning, that for every person born in China, 1 in around 43 million of them will win a gold medal. In the USA, 1 in around 11 million will win a gold medal. And in the UK, 1 in around 3 million will win a gold medal.

Even better still, going by the figures so far, this makes Great Britain roughly 3.6 times more talented than the USA, and a whopping 14.3 times more talented than China.

Now that makes me very proud to be British!

seen this on a forum 4 days ago craig
p.s
your maths aint that good
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22:17 Sat 11 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
shut up ant, nobody asked you haha
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22:48 Sat 11 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
Mo Farah is a legend.
sarahh
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22:53 Sat 11 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
no katie taylor is
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23:06 Sat 11 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
come on john joe nevin, hon the irish
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23:32 Sat 11 Aug 12 (BST)  [Link]  
Mo Farah is a legend.


Yeah man, great 5000m run, get in there mo!!
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