Federer91 2,725 Posted August 11 #431 Share Posted August 11 Some observations on a few other nations. New Zealand continue their leadership in the category of "Most wins and medals compared to the population and territory of the country". Their sporting success and consistency every Summer Olympics is admirable. Netherlands officially confirmed their status as a member of the "Big Boys Club". Second consecutive Summer Games with over 30 medals, but with a better conversion into Golds and 6th place in the table. In Tokyo they were 7th. Add to that the last 3 Winter ones, where they were 5, 5 and 6th and it shows how they have steadily risen in the ranks. Sure, the majority of their medals came from cycling, rowing and athletics, but that just means they are perfectly escalating in the traditionally strong sports for them. Know what you are good at. Uzbekistan also had their best Games ever and so much better than in Tokyo. Their stronghold is boxing, but also have done very good in the other combat sports. Once again the motto of "know what you are good at". I think they were slightly pushed in some boxing matches, but in general their fighters are amongst the best in this version of boxing. Canada is also steadily improving, but unlike and their progress is seen in a large variety of sports. Sure, they have a superstar like McIntosh who brought many of the swimming medals, but i was watching a number of other sports and they had Canadians fighting for top positions everywhere. Sports, which you wouldn't associate with Canada in the past years. Don't know what has changed, but they have broaden their sporting horizon. If things continue like this, by LA 28 they would be in the - - - fight. Also with the US being hosts, they will have a much easier path in the qualifications without the Americans, so their delegation will be 350-400 in 2028 i reckon. Topicmaster1010, MedalChampion, konig and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 858 Posted August 11 #432 Share Posted August 11 1 hour ago, Mclancer said: Canada has set new records for Gold and Total medals!!! (for a non-boycotted games) Old records were 7 Golds and 24 Totals. New records are 9 Golds and 27 Totals medals. We even had 2 gold favourites (Warner and Mitchell) who did not medal at all. We also had quite a few predicted medallist who also did not medal. Maybe 10 and 30 next time? Mitchell? Please don’t tell me that you are talking about women’s track cycling sprint … Calling her the favorite is like calling Germany the favorite in women’s basketball. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 858 Posted August 11 #433 Share Posted August 11 2 hours ago, Maxim Fastovsky said: And another domination by the best nation!!! Since 2028 will be a total domination (at least 50 gold is my bet) China should start working on their 2032 hopefuls Are you actively trying to make the U.S. even less popular or do you just not realize how annoying you are? Even beatmen is less biased than you are. Ted, opruh, dullard and 2 others 4 1 Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanHero40 193 Posted August 11 #434 Share Posted August 11 (edited) 3 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said: Are you actively trying to make the U.S. even less popular or do you just not realize how annoying you are? Even beatmen is less biased than Who is not biased??? It's the Olympics and you want your country to succeed!! Edited August 11 by AmericanHero40 opruh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclancer 6 Posted August 11 #435 Share Posted August 11 1 hour ago, Ted said: Competing in your backyard (the USA) makes it seem quite possible, doesn't it? That's right, we tend to do better in the USA (but sucked in Montreal and Calgary, lol) Canadians and Americans are very similar types of people, (we are just not as outgoing, lol) Ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,979 Posted August 11 #436 Share Posted August 11 1 hour ago, Mclancer said: Canada has set new records for Gold and Total medals!!! (for a non-boycotted games) Old records were 7 Golds and 24 Totals. New records are 9 Golds and 27 Totals medals. We even had 2 gold favourites (Warner and Mitchell) who did not medal at all. We also had quite a few predicted medallist who also did not medal. Maybe 10 and 30 next time? In addition to Canada beating their non-boycott records in golds/total medals, they also won medals in the most sports ever (including 1984). 15 sports, 8 new ones from Tokyo. That is very encouraging. As you said, there were some high profile disappointments - decathlon, shot put, judo, boxing, and track cycling (apparently the whole team got a stomach virus and almost didn't compete at all). But there were some out of nowhere surprises - fencing, rugby, tennis, 4x100 relay (surprise gold at least). As usual, we got an incredible amount of 4ths. I think the final tally was 15. If you take 5ths from combat sports it goes up close to 20. That is crazy compared to 27 total medals. Wouldn't be so bad if it didn't quite literally happen every single Olympics. Overall, a great success for Canada in 2024. Many of the new medalists are young and will improve over the next 4 years. Topicmaster1010, Josh and Ted 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclancer 6 Posted August 11 #437 Share Posted August 11 (edited) 24 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said: Mitchell? Please don’t tell me that you are talking about women’s track cycling sprint … Calling her the favorite is like calling Germany the favorite in women’s basketball. I meant to say Mitton, not Mitchell (crap, I knew it started with an "M" lol) Since been corrected. Edited August 11 by Mclancer Josh and orangeman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,979 Posted August 11 #438 Share Posted August 11 Canada's Vincent beat the American woman for gold by 1/100 of a second in canoe. In a fun, family rivalry way, it would have been hilarious if that's what put the US second on the overall table in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasit 865 Posted August 11 #439 Share Posted August 11 39 minutes ago, Federer91 said: Some observations on a few other nations. To add on that, Sweden is constantly improving the rankings from having no gold in Beijing, 1 in London, 2 in Rio, then 3 from Tokyo and now 4. They are back in the top 20, along with Norway. Another country not really on the radar is Belgium with double digit medals for the first time since 1924. Ted, Swewi and Wanderer 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bestmen 2,789 Posted August 11 #440 Share Posted August 11 CHN won the edition with 40 Gold opruh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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