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Rarity posted:You can't really compare GB to the US. They've got hundreds of millions more people and billions more dollars of investment to play with all across the board. A better comparison would be the major European countries like France and Italy and we're way better than all of those Yeah, this. Frankly, I’m surprised we finished ahead of Russia too as it goes. Scandals or not, I’d still expect them to be up there with the US and China given the population and resources. All the medalists are awesome but drat, Lauren Price manages to make one feel especially inadequate - champion kickboxer, played for Cardiff and Wales, now a gold winning Olympic boxer? Get da gently caress outta here, poo poo’s crazy.
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It is slightly weirder than that, College American Football and Basketball make so much money from their TV contracts that they end up funding all the Olympic sports via the donations the university athletic associations give back to the universities. The big university athletic departments would be in the red without College American Football afaik. US Olympic athletes have been on GoFundMe asking for travel expenses before, seems like the private money funneling into the university sports system generates enough medals that direct central govt funding of the USA Olympic Committee never became a thing.
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Sentinel Red posted:Yeah, this. Frankly, I’m surprised we finished ahead of Russia too as it goes. Scandals or not, I’d still expect them to be up there with the US and China given the population and resources.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Except if you drop athletics and swimming, we do largely compete with the US. How many basketball medals did England get? If we're only counting important medals?
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Aug 8, 2021 17:28
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Bip Roberts posted:How many basketball medals did England get? If we're only counting important medals? England wasn't competing
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MrL_JaKiri posted:England wasn't competing Obviously from the performance.
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Bip Roberts posted:How many basktball medals did England get? If we're only counting important medals? Latvia 1 gold GB nil gold.
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Rarity posted:You can't really compare GB to the US. in fact i can, in the sense that the US won the olympics and, by comparison, GB did not
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Bip Roberts posted:How many basketball medals did England get? If we're only counting important medals? Nobody outside of America cares about basketball
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Dell_Zincht posted:Nobody outside of America cares about basketball Oh god you said the thing. I can hear the hoards of sweaty amerigoons in the distance already. 'third most popular sport in the world!' they're screaming
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Hey, North Korea and strange parts of Eastern Europe are well into b-ball
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Basketball seems cool it's baseball I don't get
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Is Olympic basketball a proper tournament, or is it like football where it's a youth tournament cause noone cares.
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As a casual Olympics viewer when I saw the final medal table for this one I was surprised to see GB did well because I was under the impression they were bad at sports. So I googled the last few medal tables and it turns out they've been doing well for a while. So then I wondered why I thought they were bad and all I can think of is that it's because I'm Australian. Do you think that's it, or is all this the result of a long tail from investments made for 2012 or something?
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Kalko posted:As a casual Olympics viewer when I saw the final medal table for this one I was surprised to see GB did well because I was under the impression they were bad at sports. So I googled the last few medal tables and it turns out they've been doing well for a while. So then I wondered why I thought they were bad and all I can think of is that it's because I'm Australian. Do you think that's it, or is all this the result of a long tail from investments made for 2012 or something? They finished 36th in Atlanta 96, it was seen as a great embarrassment. It was after that the serious sports funding started and we got gud
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Yeah after Atlanta they formed UK Sport as a national overseeing body and started using the National Lottery funding to support our athletes which then got really ramped up with investment once we got declared hosts for 2012 but they've made clear efforts to maintain that success since. Every host nation gets a boost at their own games but we're the only one that's been able to keep that level of success rolling through the next two Olympics.Kalko posted:it's because I'm Australian We were still pretty poo poo at most of the stuff Australia's good at for most of the last decade so you probably wouldn't notice the improvement
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Yeah that's probably it. I stopped watching our official Olympic broadcaster's channel over a decade ago because it's a mind-numbingly dumb experience and because the only narrative in this country at Olympics time is Our Aussie Swimmers, and I don't care for swimming at all. But all of that poo poo is still there in my brain because really it's been the main story here for most of my life. Luckily this year our broadcaster actually had a good app which let you watch the OBS feeds from every event so I could bypass their two main channels, and I have to echo a lot of other posters here by saying the skateboarding and sport climbing were amazing additions and awesome to watch.
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Skarsnik posted:Oh god you said the thing. I can hear the hoards of sweaty amerigoons in the distance already. 'third most popular sport in the world!' they're screaming are they?
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Borsche69 posted:are they? It's somehow summoned you to this thread so you tell me?
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inexplicably i had to play basketball at school quite often. we were all totally poo poo at it and the teachers didn't care. it was probably just cos it was always raining and they had to put us somewhere
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NotJustANumber99 posted:inexplicably i had to play basketball at school quite often. we were all totally poo poo at it and the teachers didn't care. it was probably just cos it was always raining and they had to put us somewhere I didn't mind basketball in pe except for the fact that we played with a kid in a wheelchair who I'm pretty sure played age group basketball for Great Britain and he just toasted us on his own. Didn't even need his chair, just dragged himself around the court gorilla style. Nothing like getting completely crossed up by a kid with no legs
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Skarsnik posted:Oh god you said the thing. I can hear the hoards of sweaty amerigoons in the distance already. 'third most popular sport in the world!' they're screaming Yeah third after football and cricket!  :india: Looking forward to my five day test at Paris.
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perhaps we should not play the "who cares about x sport" game in the Olympics subforum because it's pretty  imo
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All sports are inferior to the noble art of pro wrestling anyway
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Rarity posted:All sports are inferior to the noble art of pro wrestling anyway god drat right!
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You can't go comparing sports to the arts. Apart from rhythmic gymnastics. And artistic swimming or whatever the gently caress it's called now. And figure skating. And... Hm. Maybe you could. Competitive pro wrestling. Pairs sport, 5 minute bouts, defined match structure (or set provided to judges before the start to be assigned difficulty points), judged on technical performance and style. Yeah, it could work. Pitch it.
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Hell it's basically just artistic gymnastics with a combat sport element
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goatface posted:You can't go comparing sports to the arts. Apart from rhythmic gymnastics. And artistic swimming or whatever the gently caress it's called now. And figure skating. And... Hm. Maybe you could. While this is true only the winner of the match gets the gold medal.
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They get the Olympic champion belt, the other one gets the medal.
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Rarity posted:All sports are inferior to the noble art of pro wrestling anyway I'm glad to see a few people jumped on pro-wrestling being a sport that could be added to the olympics in the other thread, as I genuinely think it would be a lot of fun and have been trying to convince people using the same arguments as goatface.
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Skarsnik posted:It's somehow summoned you to this thread so you tell me? I don't give a poo poo about basketball
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Uh oh update the medal totals https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/58193101
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Well that'll annoy the other three.
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goatface posted:Well that'll annoy the other three. Yeah that's gonna suck handing it back
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It (being banned for doping) is coming home
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It came home for a day or two then went back to Tokyo (in a urine sample bottle)
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a pipe smoking dog posted:It (being banned for doping) is coming home
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As for the paralympics we are currently 2nd in the medal table and just beaten USA at the finals of Judo and Wheel Chair Rugby. A good day.
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