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Did that power walker shit?
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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|
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Soyongdori
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I don't think both Korea and China had Italian or French coaches.
Let's say there are two athletes for long jump, as an example. You want the best two athletes for that event. If you have 25 million people, you can pick two from that total. If you have a billion people, you can pick two from that total. Therefore, you have a huge number of people that you can pick from, and if combined well with training, funding, access to equipment and so on, you have a bigger chance of finding two absolutely exceptional athletes, because the fact is you have a bigger pool to pick those two people from.
Even if that is true, vaaast majority of 20-50M countries can't afford to be very competitive in 40-50 disciplines at the same time. China and the US can, so they dominate the Olympic Games.
On super long distance races sometimes this happens. You lose control. A Russian today just collapsed near the end and the dude was in second place. These super long distance races just destroy the body.
They're talking genes. Potential. Chance. Not actual ability per medal present in the country at a time.
Harry Potter
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Ya, that's the one I just saw.
Was the Russian guy okay in the end?
fizzelopeguss
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Nope, england and wales is called "england and wales"
Great Britain (Britannia majoris) is the main landmass, islands and islets, though NOT encompassing the crown dependencies....yes, this is all completely ridiculous. Hooray for dozens of dark age and medieval kingdoms existing in a tiny isle for the past two milennia.
Even more ridiculous? "The British Isles" encompasses ireland as well.
i see, guess that explains why they cant catch up as quickly in football (soccer)
Sir Steve Redgrave, speaking to BBC One about why Team GB rowing has been so successful in London: "Each year someone is willing to learn how to go that little bit better with how to improve the team. The support team that we have is where a lot of the finances have gone in to make sure that our athletes are in the best position, so that when they push away from that landing stage they are the best prepared they can be. This is our best-ever regatta, our best before this day was 1908. We are wondering where we can go from here and maybe in Rio we can go better."
Finances are crucial, we really need to make sure we invest properly after these games in continuing from where we are and trying to improve.
Finances are crucial, we really need to make sure we invest properly after these games in continuing from where we are and trying to improve.
A large problem with their football teams is that corruption is so prevalent in that sport that often there are people on the national team even that have paid to be there or on high level teams.
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milanbaros
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Ceteris paribus, two countries one with 25 million and 1 billion. What are the odds the best sprinter is from the bigger country?
Soyongdori
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Triathlon?No update yet. He was taken to the hospital.
Something Michael Vaugh said and I'm inclined to agree:
"Surely the government will use the inspiration of the Olympics to make sure all schools give kids at least 1 hour of sport every day... "
20km Walking
John Dunbar
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people should think twice before taking on such a dangerous sport.
Powerwalk.
20 km race walk. This is the smaller of the two as well. There is also a 50km walk.
Soyongdori
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It's not on the list of sports.
John Dunbar
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probably under athletics.
Population definitely has an effect on total medals won. An enormous rich country with lots of facilities will be competitive in more events. Combing Europe into one team they'd definitely win more events than any of their constituent nations, still spending the same per person.
What in the world. He looks like he's one breath away from EXITING LIFE in the second gif.
It would have killed you for two weeks maybe and by then you would have been fine.
CrunchinJelly
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Looking at tomorrow finals, GB has the chance a lot more medals tomorrow: http://www.london2012.com/schedule-and-results/day=5-august/today-medals.html
Meaning of the 5 million people, some of them have no chance to compete in sports. For economic reasons or simply for scarcity of facilities. So you really shouldn't be impressed by the USA vs. China, and population ratios misrepresent performance for a lot of countries.
And dead.
Poor guy. Hopefully he'll be ok.No update yet. He was taken to the hospital.
Indeed.i just hope that it will be a good match and not the "who chokes less" contest i expect see
The China women team who won a gold medal have a French coach, they bowed to him and said merci.
This is an article about a preview of Fencing in London:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/oly-fenc-preview-idUSL2E8HSEVR20120712
GhostWriter24
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Yeah, I'd fucking pass out after 12 miles of extreme powerwalking too.
The_Hitcher89
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Any Brits here who still can't bring themselves to wanting Murray to win? I hope he smashes the fuck out of Federer, as much as I admire him. I'm addicted to Gold
ElectricBlue187
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I'm USAisn and I want Murray to win the upset.
Killed you? Or perhaps tuned you into a trampolining master who got to go to the Olympic Village and improve international relations.
Who are we to say...
And the x number of countries who use Russian or Ex Soviet coaches.
Which event?
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