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Paris Olympics

My favorite dumb news article of the Olympics so far.

Surprisingly from NPR:
The European Union (not including Britain, of course) has won more than 160 total medals in Paris. That's more than China and the U.S. combined. Host country France has done especially well, racking up more than 50 medals.
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Lol what a dumb assertion. Let’s see how many medals the EU would have if their number of participants was restricted as a whole like the US and China?
 
Jimjamesak said:
My favorite dumb news article of the Olympics so far.

Surprisingly from NPR:


Lol what a dumb assertion. Let’s see how many medals the EU would have if their number of participants was restricted as a whole like the US and China?
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27 members states, which means the US could qualify 81 athletes in track, 54 in swimming, and could probably fill out four full rosters and qualify them under the geographic restrictions for women's basketball.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
27 members states, which means the US could qualify 81 athletes in track, 54 in swimming, and could probably fill out four full rosters and qualify them under the geographic restrictions for women's basketball.
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TBF, I don’t think the US would have 81 runners or 54 swimmers meet qualifying standard times for each event. Though, in just the 100m alone the US had 11 men meet or go under the 10.00 qualifying time.
 
Jimjamesak said:
TBF, I don’t think the US would have 81 runners or 54 swimmers meet qualifying standard times for each event. Though, in just the 100m alone the US had 11 men meet or go under the 10.00 qualifying time.
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Might get 4 of those under 10 be capable of passing a baton though.
 
Just learned that one of the Australian women is a systems engineer so that she can train to dive. Got silver. I was a fan just because an engineer is competing.

Which is considerably harder than how they Chinese have to worry about training. Well, other than the mental aspect to be forced into a sport as a kid.

Well done!
 
Jimjamesak said:
My favorite dumb news article of the Olympics so far.

Surprisingly from NPR:


Lol what a dumb assertion. Let’s see how many medals the EU would have if their number of participants was restricted as a whole like the US and China?
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That really doesn't matter. It doesn't help to have 300 extra non-medal quality additional athletes. The correct measure is per capita medals, and Bahrain is probably the most successful nation at this year's games.

I'd like to know who has the best ROI: medals per dollars invested. By that measure, the US is probably dead last.
 
Kepler said:
That really doesn't matter. It doesn't help to have 300 extra non-medal quality additional athletes. The correct measure is per capita medals, and Bahrain is probably the most successful nation at this year's games.
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First of all, they bought their medals.

Secondly, it's St. Lucia. I don't think anyone else comes close to your way of measuring.
 
Kepler said:
That really doesn't matter. It doesn't help to have 300 extra non-medal quality additional athletes. The correct measure is per capita medals, and Bahrain is probably the most successful nation at this year's games.

I'd like to know who has the best ROI: medals per dollars invested. By that measure, the US is probably dead last.
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FWIW. Or this.

btw your American self-loathing would make for an interesting study.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
First of all, they bought their medals.

Secondly, it's St. Lucia. I don't think anyone else comes close to your way of measuring.
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Hopefully, Puerto Rico will move up on that number, since pretty much all of Puerto Rico's athletes get their training in the US.

Actually, given how many times they talk about what US college the athlete went to, a HUGE amount of all of the athletes- especially in T&F- are from US colleges. How many BB players have any time in the NBA? OR Hockey player in the NHL?

I know that Michigan doesn't have the same kind of representation as other schools, but there are 45 athletes that came through UM, covering 14 sports, from something like 21 different countries other than the US.

Basically, the US, in one form or another, has a rather massive impact on the Olympics.

Kep- whine all you want about US funding, but it covers a lot more games and countries than you are so concerned about. Let alone, the US doesn't buy terribly many athletes to compete for them (I can only think of sailing where we regularly buy people), and we don't go searching around the country looking for kids to take from their parents so that they grow up doing something like diving their entire life. US athletes get a lot of funding, sure. But many of them have to supplement that with some kind of advertising contract- so they can still train at the highest level.
 
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