website statistics
Jump to content
  • Register/Login on Totallympics!

    Sign up to Totallympics to get full access to our website.

     

    Registration is free and allows you to participate in our community. You will then be able to reply to threads and access all pages.

     

    If you encounter any issues in the registration process, please send us a message in the Contact Us page.

     

    We are excited to see you on Totallympics, the home of Olympic Sports!

     

[OFF TOPIC] General Chat


heywoodu
 Share
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/

Recommended Posts

19 hours ago, Dragon said:

A terrible story from the 1970s

 

 

Like the rigth has the AAA who make killings, the left have Montoneros and ERP which did exactly the same, being in "comunist groups" werent an inocent fact.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/page/662/#findComment-361719
Share on other sites

38 minutes ago, Vektor said:

From Reddit, all men's Olympic gold medal winners since 2000 in water polo were born in this area. :d

 

5r0v1kczler61.jpg

Nice to have also a guy born in SVK (TCH)  with Istvan (Štefan :p) Gergely 2 times Olympic champion 2004 & 2008, funny, he represented Slovakia (basically was the man who qualified us there) in Sydney 2000, so he should be the only athlete who finished in both dead last and first place in a team sport at the Olympics during his career :p

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/page/662/#findComment-361722
Share on other sites

27 minutes ago, hckošice said:

so he should be the only athlete who finished in both dead last and first place in a team sport at the Olympics during his career :p

Thanks, now I really want to know the answer to this :lol: 

 

Oh @Dragon!

.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/page/662/#findComment-361725
Share on other sites

The voice of a generation of kids, heard all around the world! The man, the myth, the legend! 

 

That passion just brings me way back

 

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/page/662/#findComment-361789
Share on other sites

36 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

The voice of a generation of kids, heard all around the world! The man, the myth, the legend! 

 

That passion just brings me way back

 

It took me so long (until last year I think) to realize that it's "(t)each Pokémon to understand" and not "to Alakazam" :d 

 

That sentence made so much more sense with 'to understand' at the end :lol: 

.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/page/662/#findComment-361792
Share on other sites

 

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/page/662/#findComment-362167
Share on other sites

I thought that it would be neat to count which nations won the most gold medals at the Summer Games when a Hungarian won the silver meldal. In other words, which nations "beat us to the gold". Here are the disciplines where at least one nation beat us more than one time:

 

(I counted the Soviet medals as Russian, and the Yugoslav medals as Serbian, and I also combined all the German medals)

 

Artistic Gymnastics :ROU  :RUS 4
Athletics :RUS 3
Canoe Sprint :GER 12
Fencing :RUS 6
Modern Pentathlon :RUS 4
Swimming :USA 10
Weightlifting :RUS 5
Wrestling :RUS 5

And the overall count:

 

33 - :RUS

 

19 - :GER

 

13 - :USA

 

11 - :ITA

 

8 - :ROU  :SWE 

 

6 - :FIN

 

5 - :GBR  :POL

 

3 - :CZE  :FRA 

 

2 - :AUS  :CHN  :DEN  :JPN  :KOR  :TUR

 

1 - :BRA  :CUB  :GEO  :GRE  :IRI  :LTU  :NOR  :SGP

 

 

And now to do the opposite, which nations won the the silver medal when we won the gold, per discipline and then the overall count: 

 

Artistic Gymnastics :RUS 4
Canoe Sprint :GER 9
Fencing :ITA 14
Modern Pentathlon :RUS 4
Shooting :USA 2
Swimming :USA 9
Water Polo :SRB 4
Wrestling :RUS 9

 

28 - :RUS

 

21 - :GER

 

20 - :ITA

 

17 - :USA

 

7 - :GBR

 

6 - :POL  :SRB

 

5 - :FRA  :SWE

 

3 - :BUL  :CZE  :FIN  :ROU  :SUI

 

2 - :ARG  :AUT  :CHN  :DEN  :GRE  :JPN  :NED

 

1 - :AUS  :CAN  :CUB  :ESP  :EST  :IRI  :LAT  :LBN  :MDA  :MEX  :POR  :PRK  :RSA  :SLO  :UKR

 

 

So it looks like Italy can hate us the most for beating them 20 times while they "only" beat us 11 times. This is mostly thanks to the Hungarian men's sabre team who dominated the event for many decades, and most of time Italy was the runner-up. 

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/page/662/#findComment-362223
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/24-off-topic-general-chat/
  • Latest Posts around Totallympics

    • I thought that was the case.  I just started watching skimo last year, but even then, I didn't recognize any of the women.  I recognized the top Swiss guy, I think.
    • Puripol Boonson seizes home men's 100m sprint gold after going sub-10 seconds in heats   https://www.olympics.com/en/news/sea-games-athletics-mens-100m-final-results-puripol-boonson   First Southeast Asian to go under ten seconds in the 100 meters.
    • Yes, that and a lot of the main medal contenders  either didn't have teams entered/or fielded B-C teams
    • Write-up on the Gisin story.   Olympic champion Gisin undergoes cervical spine surgery after crash
    • Seriously wish Bialystok will be banned from any European competition and for long time.
    • Unexpected boost for Team .  They are at least going to have a credible excuse if anyone fails any drug tests.     American rapper Snoop Dogg has been named an 'honorary coach' for Team USA at next year's Winter Olympics.   The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced on Thursday the 54-year-old will take on "a volunteer role celebrating and supporting America's athletes off the field of play".   Snoop Dogg named 'honorary coach' for Team US at Winter Olympics - BBC Sport
    • Just now getting around to these results...glad to see USA win a gold.  Didn't think we were much of a contender here.  Home soil luck?
    • Qualification status that could realistically change this week, barring (except where noted) new time qualifying performances :   Men   500m : pretty much done   1000m : pretty much done   1500m : pretty much done   5000m : one outlier at the moment  Semirunniy. He's currently not qualified for the distance being 18/15 in the rankings and R1 time-wise. He could still punch his ticket :    either by getting into the top 15 with a very good result (a podium or even a win would be needed). If it is at the expanse of  Henriksen or, less likely,  Swings, then the loser is out. If it is at the expanse of any other, then  Sasaki is out.  or by hoping Lorello gets into the top 15 at the expanse of Henriksen or Swings. or by going faster than Sasaki (6'08''834) which seems reachable after his 10k, even in Hamar.   10000m : once again Henriksen is on the bubble. If  Maly, Petzold of  Farthofer gets into the top 9 at the expanse of Malfatti or Snellink, then he's out.    Mass-start : not much at stake considering most of the reserve skaters will already receive an additional quota - at the moment    . Morino  will try to enter top 32 and be in those additional quota spots.    Team pursuit : pretty much done   Women   500m : pretty much done   1000m : with  Thorup not cleared to participate one more spot is up for grabs.  Scholz would need to be in front of both Herzog (done as she's not entered) and Czerwonka (7 points) after this final week.  Silaeva would be left out.    1500m : Lamarche not competing and  Zofia Braun being promoted to A division, Poland has got a real shot at a second quota. Braun will need to stay in front of Scholz and Weidemann, who could still finish ahead of her depending on how good Braun fares in A division.  Smedding would suffer from a Polish rise.   3000m : match-up between  Yang and  Horikawa only separated by 3 points. At the moment Yang is out (R2) but if they exchange position in the standings then Horikawa is out (R1). They could also both finish ahead of Hofmann, at the expanse of  Golubeva ultimately.  Jasch has a small shot at a second German quota too, by edging the former two skaters, eliminating them.    5000m : pretty much done   Mass-start :  Santo Rodrigues is hanging on by a thread. The cruelty of it is that those immediately behind her -    - will get an aditional spot anyways, so it does not really matter if they finish in the top 24 ahead of her, except it would allow France to enter a second skater and two girls in the MS.   Team pursuit : three-way asymetrical tie for the last SOQP spot between   and , all in division A. Norway needs to beat both as they can't rely on a time Q, Kazakhstan needs to beat Norway to ensure (if they fail to beat China) the first SOQT spot and avoid the Italian wild-card*, whereas China is pretty safe. *  is currently out but they "only" need to get into a reserve spot to be qualified, which is going faster than 3'00'92 (or faster than Norway if they too decide to skate faster). They were not far off this mark in Hamar earlier this year but the team was in a better shape overall. 
×
×
  • Create New...