Posted on 08/12/2012 6:23:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not only that but do they count that as one medal? or do they count each and every medal to each teammate?
I'm no expert but to me they look lean but not overly muscled like the Williams sisters.
All of this without the “benefit” of government funding.
Yea but none of them won their medals on their own. As dear leader would say, “You didn’t win that”...
Now if we could get math, science and technology gold medals, we might be able to improve the world in some way.
If you combined all of the former Soviet Republic (Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Estonia) medals, it would come out
47 Gold 44 Silver 73 Bronze 170 total
Another thing to keep in mind is that unlike nearly every other country, the U.S. Olympic Team is a private enterprise, funded almost entirely by corporate sponsors and private citizens (and lots of hard working parents).
Eric Heiden, for example, was one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all time (his performance at the 1980 Winter Olympics was THE greatest Olympic accomplishment of all time, in my humble opinion). He followed this by pursuing a short career in cycling, and is now a successful orthopedic surgeon in Utah. He'd probably be the first one to tell you that his speed skating was critical to his future medical career.
Those Olympians who skedaddled out of London and skipped the closing ceremony did the right thing. We briefly tuned in, and it was awful. What they lacked in creativity, they made up for with the worst caterwauling ever.
But in the really athletic sports, such as badminton, table tennis, checkers, log rolling, etc., how did we do? Inquiring minds at ESPN need to know to fill in their Fall schedule.
Americans are often snidely ridiculed by foreigners for being fat. And a lot of us are. But at least our athletes and our military are lean and mean.
Hey the Chinese have to get their medals from somewhere.
RE: I’m embarrassed for all of western ‘culture’
OK, would it have been better had the closing ceremonies been held in say, New York?
Who would we have that’s very different from what the Brits have?
Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna, Madonna, Britney, Kanye West, Chris Brown, P. Diddy, and the whole bunch of crap we hear on the radio today....
“Who came up with the ugly medals ceremony uniforms. Gray?”
Tonight’s closing ceremony uniforms were worse....all white with the ugly white berets. The athletes looked like they worked in a Baskin Robbins.
Whoever designed our team uniforms flopped. They could have gone to Walmart and put together something with red, white, and blue for a lot less money.
:-P
RE: Whoever designed our team uniforms flopped.
That would be the famous Ralph Lauren (made in China of course ).
I say we break it out by Universities, the University of Florida sent 37 to the Games, USC sent 40.
There was some anti-American bias in the boxing judging.But the US team could have been stronger.
Why not add MMA to the Olympics. It’s more popular than boxing. Yes, it’s brutal, but so is water polo (under the water).
“How many of those medals won by non American athletes live and/or were trained in the USA?
I’d wager the total would increase significantly if you were to count those as American-won as well.”
Uh-oh. The “One-World-Gov’t” and “open-borders-people” are going to be visiting you!
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