That appears to be on total medals won, not the way the BBC (and official?) medals table is calculated. We're still 9 medals behind them, but ahead of them in the table as more of ours are gold.
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That appears to be on total medals won, not the way the BBC (and official?) medals table is calculated. We're still 9 medals behind them, but ahead of them in the table as more of ours are gold.
It's lucky that the USA have Phelps because they would be doing pretty bad for such a big country
Just watched the interview with the Women's Quadruple Sculls. They are so upset the lost out on the gold. Yes they should have won it and silver ain't to shabby. But once again the hurt shows just what the Olympics really mean.
Was quite heart breaking but I think this is a good thing. In the past we would have been celebrating any medal and even congratulating non-medal places if they "tried their best". Whilst this is a nice attitude I think it contributed to our relatively poor showing in the past few Olympics. This it's the gold or nothing attitude that we seem to have found is paying real dividends.
Totally agree with you. The rowing and cycling teams have set a 1st class example on how to spend the money given to them by the Lottery etc. If only the athletics team would follow the same route.
Well here we go: our ladies racing for gold and silver.
I didn't realize that Rebecca Romero won a silver medal 4 years ago, as a rower!! She's the first Brit to win medals in two different sports.
Agree, the sailing team has done very well over the last 3 Olympics and they get very little funding but again spend it well.
On the subject of funding... Just read an article on theBBC about Rebecca Adlington. over the last few years, she has received around £8-10k a year. Out of that she has to fund her full-time career as a swimmer - her travel, her family's travel, accommodation and kit. Yet our under achieving track and field athletes are getting much much more than that for turning in constantly mediocre performances.
and she is only the second woman ever to do.
On the subject of funding... Just read an article on theBBC about Rebecca Adlington. over the last few years, she has received around £8-10k a year. Out of that she has to fund her full-time career as a swimmer - her travel, her family's travel, accommodation and kit. Yet our under achieving track and field athletes are getting much much more than that for turning in constantly mediocre performances.
and she is only the second woman ever to do.
I must admit, I expected Cycling, Rowing, and Sailing successes, but Adlington took me completely by surprise.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the track and field solution is.
The listings make me choose towns adjacent to me for my zip code and they got Soccer. In addition, it says they got Baseball in one and Basketball in the other. But I couldnt find any of those channels anywhere and the numbers dont even exist.
Theres also a Universal HD but I dont have HD so
But I do see that online those 3 sports and many other team spots like this Handball that Ive never seen in my live
are all live.
Looks like I was wrong on the funding. The Athletics team are getting around the same amount as rowing, swimming sailing and cycling. So our lack of success in track and field is surely a lack of motivation in the athletes.
Maybe there is just to much money in the Grand Prix events and the Olympics are only secondary to them.
UK Sport lottery funding
Maybe there is just to much money in the Grand Prix events and the Olympics are only secondary to them.
UK Sport lottery funding
Actually it seems surprising that countries like USA do so well since most of the athletes are on their own.
Many other countries, especially the communist ones get government sponsored as a "champion" and they take them from their families from a really young age to train all the time. Furthermore, they have more motive because they have it made if they win. In countries like US and stuff, if they get gold, they "might" get endorsements enough to become rich, but might not.
I suppose the advantage in USA is that they have more sports scientists and better nutrition maybe? I know some of the top sponsored athletes are "made" by a team of trainers and engineers that use really expensive computer equipment to perfect their moves. But most people don't have resources for this kind of team.
But on the other hand many more athletes have the "opportunity" to "pursue their dreams" if they are a natural too since everyone is "relatively" rich. Hence they don't have to hope to get chosen at a young age by government to get the Olympic dream. You can just decide you want to train and Home Depot will give you a job.
I woke up at 3 a.m. to watch Rebecca Adlington win her gold medal and then stuck with it through the rowing, cycling and sprints. It's 6 p.m. now and I feel and look like a zombie (
I think this was just posted recently.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=0816_hd_atm_hl_l0686
I bet they have a method to their madness. Like they prolly show team sports (either live or recorded) during happy hour at the request of beer companies...etc.
NBC, MS, are pretty large corporations with a lot of resources and there's prolly much marketing thought with mathematicians / statisticians, etc. trying to determine when to show what to maximize profit. It's all about making money.
If you really want live results, the way you can guarantee it is if a friend in beijing texts or stream his web cam to you. hehe
To me this is what the Olympics is all about. If that wasn't enough, she's hot too
Whoa.
Canada now has medals. I thought it was going to be the most embarrassing Olympics ever for us.
We went 7 full days without any medals. 
Phelps has said that he won't do this program again, his training was so intense that he won't do it again. He said he is getting to old for it. The thought is that he will move to sprint races.
East.
Oh then it's only 11 PM on the other side of the NBC world so...maybe that's prime time. There's Alaska too, but that's probably not counted as part of USA for these purposes.
It is only live on the east coast, the west coast is delayed 3 hours. Prime time in the US is considered from 8pm to 11pm. So the mens 100m that took place in China Friday night didn't air on the west coast until about 17 hours after it happened. NBC delayed the race until 11:30pm eastern so 2:30 am.Oh then it's only 11 PM on the other side of the NBC world so...maybe that's prime time. There's Alaska too, but that's probably not counted as part of USA for these purposes.
Oh yeah. I know some of the events they delay it. But that Gymnastics one was actually live.
Actually, only in the Eastern and Pacific time zones is prime time 8-11. In Central and Mountain it's 7-10.
But NBC's "live" coverage is certainly not live for a good portion of the US, I suspect everyone in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.
Mountain time zone is pretty much ignored by TV execs on the east and west coasts. I bet there are some that don't even believe such a thing exists.