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Giraffe

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Some great Olympic number work here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37148372

My favourite being we are third on the all time Olympic table if, as the BBC have done, we conveniently class East Germany as a separate country to Germany.
 

Tony Meolas Loan Spell

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However pinch of salt here. 1908 where we hoovered up medals yet there were only 22 countries competing...including Bohemia.

So are we really third bearing in mind the world we know now was very different in the early days of the Olympics.

Good fun tho and whichever way you slice it with more nations competing these days its one helluva achievement.
 

Giraffe

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153 gold medals in only 5 summer Olympics. I wonder how many of them, if any, were actually not on drugs.

Fair point. Interesting to note Russia and China's relative decline since the drug rules were tightened. And what has happened to France?
 

smeg

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Fair point. Interesting to note Russia and China's relative decline since the drug rules were tightened. And what has happened to France?

Yeah that is an interesting observation about China this time round, they had no reason other than the obvious to fade so badly. Obviously Russia only had 70% of their athletes representing this time so it is understandable.
 


maltaseagull

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Yeah that is an interesting observation about China this time round, they had no reason other than the obvious to fade so badly. Obviously Russia only had 70% of their athletes representing this time so it is understandable.

Russia should have been banned altogether IMHO
 

Triggaaar

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if, as the BBC have done, we conveniently class East Germany as a separate country to Germany.
They have to be classed as separate, as I said with the EU. There's a limit to how many athletes a country can enter into each event, so adding East and West Germany would break the rules. I imagine a fair few East German medals are due to drugs anyway.
 

Triggaaar

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Yeah that is an interesting observation about China this time round, they had no reason other than the obvious to fade so badly.
They do have a reason, countries typically do very well at their home Olympics, then tale-off in the subsequent games. Except us of course, we're the first country ever to do better in the Olympics following hosting it.
 


Bolton va va

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Bolton won the same number of gold medals as Argentina, so we're currently 22nd in the world.

When we adopt Laura Trott, we'll move up to 17th in the world.
 
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I love stats like this

However pinch of salt here. 1908 where we hoovered up medals yet there were only 22 countries competing...including Bohemia.

So are we really third bearing in mind the world we know now was very different in the early days of the Olympics.

Good fun tho and whichever way you slice it with more nations competing these days its one helluva achievement.

To be fair, Bohemia was a country in its own right.

England even played a full international footy match against them.
 

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