Yeh Right What Squirtz........
Oh I just seen the NZ under you nic ...Its a bit of fun ....our rivalry with NZ has always been friendly .


[ This Message was edited by: Floydyboy on 2004-08-24 07:48 ]

Wow, there WAS a minor miracle. We scored one run. Never looked like winning though.

Anyone also notice that we are the only country in the top 7 with less than 50 million?

The countries ahead of us also have around 280 million, 1.2 billion (or so, who knows!!), and 130 or so million.

Hell, the other countries in the top 7 have 100x our population (33% of world population), yet only have 6x the amount of medals as us.

If the Olympics were run on a relative scale of population to performance we would be miles in front. We only have 20 million in this top nation, obviously, we're all pretty good at sport.
The Chinese who are currently leading have 2 billion people.

If we had over a billion people,is anyone suggesting that we would have won more gold medals?
What is Indias medal tally?
This is why we keep losing at gambling.We mis-interpolate the data and come up with the wrong delusional conclusion.

Taken a double on Halkia to win the 400 metres with Italy to win the mens soccer at $8.50 and a small saver on Halkia to win with Iraq to win the soccer at $13.50.
Could be a bit of value.

The Australian govt. made a concerted effort to invest in sports programs after Australia's disasterous showing at the Montreal Olympics. We are reaping the benifits of this.

Latest market Women's 400m Hurdles Final - Gold Medal (25/8)

Fani Halkia (GRE) - $1.80 (was $1.95)
Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS) - $2.60 (was $2.45)
Jana Pittman (AUS) - $6.50 (was $6.00)
Sheena Johnson (USA) - $21.00 (same)
Ionela Tirlea-Manolache (ROM) - $31.00 (was $26.00)
Tetyana Tereshcuk-Antipova (UKR) - $41 (was $34.00)
Yekaterina Bikert (RUS) - $101 (was $67.00)
Brenda Taylor (USA) - $101.00 (same)

Here's the latest medal tally


United States 25 27 19 Total 71
China 24 15 12 Total 51
Japan 15 8 9 Total 32
Australia 14 9 14 Total 37
France 9 7 9 Total 27
Russia 8 17 21 46
Germany 8 10 13 Total 31


Great Britain 7 8 7 Total 22
NZ 2 0 0 Total 2

"Chinese who are currently leading have 2 billion people"

No, 1.2 to 1.3 billion.

"If we had over a billion people,is anyone suggesting that we would have won more gold medals?"

Of course. Sports is a big part of our culture which is what gives us the medals. With the same culture but a larger population, you would expect more medals.

Our medals per capita wouldn't increase in direct proportion though, since we're obviously good at some sports and bad at others. We'd saturate swimming, most team sports etc, but we still would be behind in athletics, gymnastics etc. To get twice as many medals we'd probally need 60-80 million.