Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Caution, may contain results!

[rasmasyean]

I really liked that hahahahaha

The scoring was a little unbalanced, as one of the comments I have heard already said "...I just believe Nastia's routine was more perfect..."

Yeah that kinda sux. Well, she has one more chance to get another gold. Not sure how much it would mean anymore nowadays because it seems Michael Phelps is overshadowing everyone. Poor girl. That gold would probably have been worth several million dollars more in a difference time.

 

[scotthayes]

teamGB track cycling have been amazing. they won 70% of the gold medals and 12 medals in total... JUST AMAZING

 

[fivepoint]

Shawn Johnson got her GOLD in the Balance Beam event! Go Shawn! Go Iowa!

 

[és:]

So, do we think that'll be the end of the british gold medals now or do we have any other events that we're likely to do well in?

 

[robbieduncan]

So, do we think that'll be the end of the british gold medals now or do we have any other events that we're likely to do well in?

We have the favourite for the womans BMX later in the week. And it's looking like we might sneak a medal in the mens highjump right now.

 

[2nyRiggz]

^I don't know man....those two Russian guys are making all of their jumps and GB already missed three. That Russian guy with the blond hair is clearing those bars with ease.




Bless

 

[robbieduncan]

^I don't know man....those two Russian guys are making all of their jumps and GB already missed three. That Russian guy with the blond hair is clearing those bars with ease.

The BBC say we won a Silver. Not a bad performance as I don't think Germaine Mason was expected to feature in the medals at all

 

[és:]

Christine Ohuruogu wins the gold in the 400m for GBR.

I think we've put up a good fight.

 

[rasmasyean]

Hilarious baseball game between USA and China.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=0818_sd_bbm_rc_ce281&channelcode=sportbb

 

[Dimwhit]

Ah... must have misheard the commentators. Is a 0.3 where they miss the landing by going to knees but don't fall off the apparatus? Perhaps that's what I'm thinking of.

I think a .3 deduction is if there is a large step on the landing (a meter or greater, I think). I'm sure there are other .3 deductions as well.

Nastia got hosed. But hey, she managed to get the all around gold after getting hosed in some scoring, too, so at least there's that.

 

[robbieduncan]

I think we've put up a good fight.

I think we've done amazingly well. Third in the table right now (the official table), fifth on total medal count. We've got 2 more guaranteed bronzes (minimum, could still get gold or silver) in boxing and another boxer still in it (one more win for another minimum bronze). So at a minimum we'll get 35 medals.

On top of that we've got a pretty good chance in the windsurfing (currently lying second in the mens and third in the womans with one more race each), favourite for the womans BMX, a very good chance of Gold in the mens tripple jump as well as a few other medal chances. We have a good chance of reaching the stretch target of 41 medals in total.

 

[és:]

I think we've done amazingly well. Third in the table right now (the official table), fifth on total medal count. We've got 2 more guaranteed bronzes (minimum, could still get gold or silver) in boxing and another boxer still in it (one more win for another minimum bronze). So at a minimum we'll get 35 medals.

On top of that we've got a pretty good chance in the windsurfing (currently lying second in the mens and third in the womans with one more race each), favourite for the womans BMX, a very good chance of Gold in the mens tripple jump as well as a few other medal chances. We have a good chance of reaching the stretch target of 41 medals in total.

That would be a terrific games - it already is a terrific games - so I'm really happy.

If we could finish 3rd in the official table then that'll be one hell of an achievement for our small island of 60m people compared with 1.2b of China and 800m (i think?) of the USA.

 

[swiftaw]

That would be a terrific games - it already is a terrific games - so I'm really happy.

If we could finish 3rd in the official table then that'll be one hell of an achievement for our small island of 60m people compared with 1.2b of China and 800m (i think?) of the USA.

USA's population is more like 305 million.

UK is the 22nd largest country by population.

 

[robbieduncan]

USA's population is more like 305 million.

UK is the 22nd largest country by population.

According to Wikipedia (so possibly wrong) Estimated 2007 population 303,111,027

UK population (mid 2006, government figures) 60,587,000.

So we have around 1/5 the population and have managed to win between 1/3 and 1/2 as many medals. Which is pretty good really. Unfortunately the Australians who are fourth in the table have won more medals and probably have a smaller population than us...

 

[és:]

USA's population is more like 305 million.

Yeah, I should have checked.

UK is the 22nd largest country by population.

Even better.

 

[Dimwhit]

So we have around 1/5 the population and have managed to win between 1/3 and 1/2 as many medals.

I blame that on the fact that we're too busy training everyone else's athletes. We don't have enough time for our own.

 

[swiftaw]

I blame that on the fact that we're too busy training everyone else's athletes. We don't have enough time for our own.

Plus, a lot of your most athletic citizens choose basketball or football because the financial rewards are better.

 

[robbieduncan]

Plus, a lot of your moth athletic citizens choose basketball or football because the financial rewards are better.

To be fair a lot of ours choose football (soccer) or rugby. We don't compete in the soccer at the Olympics as our individual national teams don't want to jeopardise competing individually internationally and rugby isn't an Olympic sport (yet). I imagine that for other countries the lack of their national sports harms them too (for example cricket for India and Pakistan).

Edit to add: The UK are the current reigning champions at Olympic cricket having won the one and only time it was contested

 

[scotthayes]

Populations aside, we've done/are doing amazingly well. The kick up the arse we got in Atlanta when we won one gold seems to have done the trick. And remember, after Athens the funding for Olympics sports went up to £250 million. After these games (until 2012) the funding will be £400 million. So in London we hope to do even better.

I can't see why we can not win around 4 more gold medals and we should hit the 41 medal stretch target and easily do the 35 medal target.

Have to say, these Olympics have been a huge amount of fun to watch. Think it will soon be time to draw up a list of 10 athletes for a poll of "Star of the games"

 

[swiftaw]

Populations aside, we've done/are doing amazingly well. The kick up the arse we got in Atlanta when we won one gold seems to have done the trick. And remember, after Athens the funding for Olympics sports went up to £250 million. After these games (until 2012) the funding will be £400 million. So in London we hope to do even better.

I can't see why we can not win around 4 more gold medals and we should hit the 41 medal stretch target and easily do the 35 medal target.

Have to say, these Olympics have been a huge amount of fun to watch. Think it will soon be time to draw up a list of 10 athletes for a poll of "Star of the games"

I wonder now if the expectation for 2012 will be too great. Many of our medal winners are in their prime now, and will be a little beyond that in 2012 (although we hope there are youngsters who will be in their prime in 2012). However, I wonder if the pressure of winning at home might be too much for some.

Also, as a Brit, with all these winners, the question has to be asked. Who will be BBC Sports Personality of the Year?

 

[robbieduncan]

I wonder now if the expectation for 2012 will be too great. Many of our medal winners are in their prime now, and will be a little beyond that in 2012 (although we hope there are youngsters who will be in their prime in 2012). However, I wonder if the pressure of winning at home might be too much for some.

I think this may well end up being the case. I'd be surprised (but very happy) if we do this well again. Specifically I simply can't see us totally dominating the track cycling to the same degree...

 

[scotthayes]

I wonder now if the expectation for 2012 will be too great. Many of our medal winners are in their prime now, and will be a little beyond that in 2012 (although we hope there are youngsters who will be in their prime in 2012). However, I wonder if the pressure of winning at home might be too much for some.

Also, as a Brit, with all these winners, the question has to be asked. Who will be BBC Sports Personality of the Year?

I think this may well end up being the case. I'd be surprised (but very happy) if we do this well again. Specifically I simply can't see us totally dominating the track cycling to the same degree...

Not so sure. UK Sports have not only concentrated on these games but also bringing through the juniors. We'll be putting a huge team together for 2012.

As for BBC Sports personality of the year. Chris Hoy has to be somewhere near the top of the list. As for team of the year, either the whole of teamGB or the cycling team.

 

[Abstract]

Not so sure. UK Sports have not only concentrated on these games but also bringing through the juniors. We'll be putting a huge team together for 2012.

I don't know the details, but you'd think that after London won the Olympic bid, they would have started plowing the money into sports since that day. Many countries do this so that they, the host of the Olympics, are not embarrassed in their home country.

 

[swiftaw]

Not so sure. UK Sports have not only concentrated on these games but also bringing through the juniors. We'll be putting a huge team together for 2012.

As for BBC Sports personality of the year. Chris Hoy has to be somewhere near the top of the list. As for team of the year, either the whole of teamGB or the cycling team.

Also, as the host in 2012, we automatically get to enter every event without having to qualify, so we'll see things like GB basketball.

I think that Addlington also has a shot at SPOY.

 

[scotthayes]

Also, as the host in 2012, we automatically get to enter every event without having to qualify, so we'll see things like GB basketball.

I think that Addlington also has a shot at SPOY.

Good thing about automatic entry is that UK Sports have thrown huge sums of money at the sports we don't normally enter so that they have a chance to put in a good performance. Volleyball is getting £4 million and basketball is getting £3.6 million. for previous Olympics they received no money at all.

EDIT: Just remembered, we've already hit the 35 "conversion" medal target. 35 medals in total (if you count the two medals that are guaranteed in the box) around a third of which should be gold. So anything from here on in is a bonus.