Greece, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, and Australia.
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The Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Greece, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, and Australia.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Gold medal to [MENTION=1575]whitelion[/MENTION]
Sounds pretty unfair.
I don't know the rule, only going on what the commentators said - if you're allowed to stand past the line, as long as you don't start running, then it wasn't a mistake.
Just one of those things, a split second mistake. Thankfully it doesn't look like it will affect our final position in the table, because that would be awful.
Oo. GB, France, Switzerland. Maybe Italy. Don't know.
Cheat! Disqualified.
You're not supposed to look the ****ing answer up!
- Apr 5, 2014
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Avoiding the ease of pumping a few words into the search engines, I'll go with:
Great Britain, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia, Italy.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Google is the enemy of pub quizzes everywhere!
GB is also the only country of those 5 to have won a gold medal at every Olympics since 1896.
[MENTION=34106]ManOfSussex[/MENTION] didn't stipulate that rule or any come to think of it.
I believe it's in the small print. I'll leave the adjudication to [MENTION=34106]ManOfSussex[/MENTION].@ManOfSussex didn't stipulate that rule or any come to think of it.
- Apr 5, 2014
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A little bit of research suggests that there maybe a sixth, although an athletes participation in the St Louis games of 1904 is not confirmed. Shame, as it was one of the countries I guessed !
Apparently, Great Britain is the only 'ever present' at both summer and winter- although the Jamaican bobsleigh team are generally more successful.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Good effort. France & Greece in place of Sweden and Netherlands though. If useless trivia was a subject at university, I would have a doctorate in it. The other one I know off the top of my head is the 12 countries that have competed at every winter Olympics -
Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States
- Apr 5, 2014
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New question:
No ego stroking by looking things up...
Which nation's model of sports excellence formed the blueprint of the post Atlanta GB success ?
Which Olympics Games was the 'watershed' moment for that country's turn in sporting fortunes ?
No ego stroking by looking things up...
Which nation's model of sports excellence formed the blueprint of the post Atlanta GB success ?
Which Olympics Games was the 'watershed' moment for that country's turn in sporting fortunes ?
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Blueprint based on Australia's model?
Was it 1976 at Montreal when they didn't do very well and implemented it all? Could have been Munich in 1972, but I'll stick with Montreal.
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Another gold medal !
A last question, and I owe you a drink if you can get this one....
Great Britain willl be only the second country to increase its medal total at five successive Olympics should we cross the 65 mark (as is likely). Who was the first to do this ?
A totally redundant crumb of a clue: They managed it on Friday with a Taekwondo gong.
ManOfSussex
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Stumped me on that one. Ivory Coast? Complete guess.
- Apr 5, 2014
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Twas Azerbaijan.
SeagullofMalaysia
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Bugger, another Chinese gold. I apologize on behalf of my nation for getting nicked of 2 gold medals by the Chinese in badminton
ManOfSussex
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3rd Olympic final in a row Lee Chong Wei has lost I read.
gregbrighton
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Looks like Tom Daly is blowing big time in the semifinal. He's last. Ah well. Always thought he was a bit overrated. I guess he could turn to his media work presenting another series of 'Splash' or talk about 'cock' on Celebrity Juice...
gregbrighton
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Daly is OUT! Chat show/Z-reality celeb circuit, here he comes! 