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08-18-2008, 08:41 PM
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If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
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Population might play a part in it. But i've heard from the TV announcer commented about they know many gold medals are up for grabs, so the Chinese just trained their athletes for it. Simple as that.
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08-18-2008, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by oddball
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Sorry Oddball but
The official IOC table counts gold medals first so if a country has only one medal but it happens to be gold then it would go above a country which had no gold but loads of silvers. It's only the US media that is ranking the table on 'total medals won'
that link again
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/EN...L0000000.shtml
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08-18-2008, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by heykool69
Population might play a part in it. But i've heard from the TV announcer commented about they know many gold medals are up for grabs, so the Chinese just trained their athletes for it. Simple as that.
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Sorry i cant make heads or tails of this 
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08-18-2008, 11:04 PM
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My baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster, two great big humps and then I'm gone
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olympics in Bejing should never have happened!
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Originally Posted by Justin
Mate China have 1.5 Billion people to pull their team from! Thats the reason they will win more medals than anyone else!
Also Australia is up to 11 golds now and are 3rd in the rankings. Great effort by us!  |
no, they have more golds because they start training them at about the age of 2 like slaves that anywhere else in the world would not be considered acceptable
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08-18-2008, 11:06 PM
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If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
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Originally Posted by Justin
Sorry i cant make heads or tails of this |
Sorry 
What i was trying to say was the Chinese put more athletes to train for the sport that GIVES out more medals. For instance indoor pool..... you have diving, synchron., relays, freestyle, etc...
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08-18-2008, 11:08 PM
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If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
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Originally Posted by joy_division
no, they have more golds because they start training them at about the age of 2 like slaves that anywhere else in the world would not be considered acceptable
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and YES to that!
Many only sees their families only once a year.
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08-18-2008, 11:12 PM
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My baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster, two great big humps and then I'm gone
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Originally Posted by oddball
the US coach said something about it but they didn't push the issue. probably won't either if they want to see america again.  |
I thought this was quite funny from the ladies 100m final: a false satrt claim from the US: from one of their own team!
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Jamaica’s big win turned into a giant disappointment for the United States. Lauryn Williams finished fourth, Muna Lee fifth and Torri Edwards last. Lee, the only one of that U.S. trio with another chance for an individual medal — in the 200 — said she thought there was a false start.
Edwards herself said she thought she had false-started. The American team filed a protest, though it was swiftly rejected.
“It was a flagrant and a blatant false start that was not recalled and had tremendous impact on the race,” said Lee’s coach, Vince Anderson, just before the rejection. “But they’re not going to rerun the Olympic 100. Anyone who knows anything knows that.”
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08-18-2008, 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by joy_division
no, they have more golds because they start training them at about the age of 2 like slaves that anywhere else in the world would not be considered acceptable
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I didnt know this was going on over there 
I know there are a lot of terrible things that happen in China and i do agree the Games should never have gone there
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08-18-2008, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by heykool69
Sorry
What i was trying to say was the Chinese put more athletes to train for the sport that GIVES out more medals. For instance indoor pool..... you have diving, synchron., relays, freestyle, etc... |
Ahhhh! Now i understand what your saying mate 
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08-18-2008, 11:24 PM
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My baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster, two great big humps and then I'm gone
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African countries always do weel in Track. A combo of things I imagine:
because they run barefoot in their homeland - I remember the big deal when Zola budd ran barefoot at the olympics.
The climate is very hot over there so they can run for long distances and be used to it
Most have no option but to walk
It is a fact that people of african origin seem to be better built for sport/better physique(dunno if that's the right term)
bsically, every country has it's national sport, sport that they are best at -most of Africa's is running. Just look at any marathon
Just look at baseball, american footbal, basketball...
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