London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT3|
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GQ talked about this recently.
(the truth is the NBA did not and does not want to participate. The US and Russia voted against the rule change)
smallios74
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Not so sure about the boxers, but im sure the euro teams wouldnt want to play in the Olympics a week or so after the Euro championships, a week or 2 before the leagues start, and when qualifying for the Champions and europa leagues.
Kitschkraft
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They are completely different sports and scenarios. I don't really know why you think this is relevant.
The four slams are different tournaments, played on various surfaces. Having the Olympics with the four slams isn't as redundant as having the World Cup, than two years later, the Olympic games.
Not to mention that we would than be asking European players to play the Euro tournament, then the Olympics, right after one another. (I understand that Tennis players do this, but once again, different sports, different levels of fitness, etc).
Soccer has enough elite level-international trophy's.
So what about India and China, which each have 3x as many people as we do? Only factoring in population is pretty silly.
Darth Sonik
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OMG @ the Russian gymnasts.
And then ppl wonder why they get a bad reputation
Jealousy.
Tesseract
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it's all in good fun, bogart. your yawns feed me.
I know! So many great comebacks, upsets, and close games this Olympics. Sad to see it end.
I was thinking more like the last two on the right.
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Cry more, thread policeman.
Dominican Power
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Simply put, the age restriction for football is because FIFA told the IOC to fuck off
What were you expecting?
India hardly count, being a developing nation. China were hardly competitive until the money started rolling in.
US will gloat less when Europe start sucking less.
Harry_Tequila
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I have to say, I love watching lots of obscure sports like table tennis, horse dancing and basketball for a few weeks. Its such a nice change from the usual. 
Well its not really the world best athletes when in most sports you can't field professorial players.
Would also like to say that the teams for Olympic Football (soccer) is like Team C for countries. People wonder why the top euro teams never made it, because you can't field your best players because of the rules and restrictions in place which are:-
"The mens competition will be an under-23s event, but each country will be allowed to select three older players."
Always wondered why the Olympics place rules in one sport and not in another, shit should all be universal.
You guys think America would be as strong if they used the same rules as applied for Olympic Football (soccer) which would be only one older player when you think percentage wise due to squad size.
I kind of find it stupid you can't field your strongest players and why Olympic Football (soccer) is not cared for at all in mostly Europe, for some reason people really care in south american countries for it though.
Trickster
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My country don't even have 6 million people, would be pretty funny if USA didn't annihilate it in the medal count
Good Job Bob
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I have to say, I love watching lots of obscure sports like table tennis, horse dancing and basketball for a few weeks. Its such a nice change from the usual.
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Europe won. Deal with it.
Red Blaster
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Funky Papa
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I got a badass iced coffee while watching the game and the waitres's phone number.
You all moany bitches LOST.
You all moany bitches LOST.
Epsilon-delta
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By that logic, China must suck ass then compared to the rest of the world.
My country don't even have 6 million people, would be pretty funny if USA didn't annihilate it in the medal count
India and China must go in depression then.
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My country don't even have 6 million people, would be pretty funny if USA didn't annihilate it in the medal count
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHIB73H-aPE
Dark Schala
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Can't wait for Pentathlon running/shooting combined event.
This boxing's pretty good, but the officiating's apparently been weird according to my announcer. Haven't been watching long so I'm wondering what happened before.
This boxing's pretty good, but the officiating's apparently been weird according to my announcer. Haven't been watching long so I'm wondering what happened before.
This is the only time basketball is on television in the UK.
I have to say, I love watching lots of obscure sports like table tennis, horse dancing and basketball for a few weeks. Its such a nice change from the usual.
Yeah. I prefer it if they was more than that and less stuff like the tedious football and basketball tournaments. Especially when one is completely hobbled and the other only has one country that's ever likely to win.
Trickster
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Tesseract
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salty discharge detected.
smallios74
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Those wanting tickets for the para-olympics may be to late, tried to get some last week and its pretty much sold out, unless they are with holding tickets till after these games have finished.
This is my point exactly, if you do a medal per x citizen count you get a very different top 10
Trickster
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You need to post that USA gif some more, twice don't cut it.
I read somewhere that the University of Florida would be ranked 8th if it were a country. I doubt that's truly accurate though, because of shared medals.
What you get is Grenada shitting on the entire world
The ticket website says this.
"Paralympic Games tickets
Watch out for more Paralympic Games tickets which will go on sale next week following the close of the Olympic Games."
vas_a_morir
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Lol, comparing Europe medals to American medals. Just how many participants in each event is one 'nation' allowed? A EU would only be able to send a fraction of the competitors. Use your brains, kids.
India is one of the poorest countries in the world though.
Population is hugely relevant among rich nations. Just take all the gold medals won by the richest countries in europe and add them up. That gets around having more than one team per event, and this team euro would win more events while investing about the same per capita. A greater population with more diverse facilities would make team euro more competitive in more events than any of its constituent nations.
An alternative is to have goverment pump loads of money into olympic sports as a show of strength. Like China and Russia in the past.
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