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Having a debate with a scottish mate about the olympics...

Anyone know off hand the answer to this...

Of the British medals, which country has won the most?

And if it's England, have we won more than the rest combined?

think eng on both counts.  saw this on bbc site blog earlier.

Chris Hoy is doing a damned good job for Scotland mind.

Stat Attack!

Gold:

England = 18
Wales = 3
Scotland = 3

That's without Pete Reed (born Seattle) and Bradley Wiggins (born Belgium)

Silver:

England = 11
Wales = 0
Scotland = 3
Northern Ireland = 1

One from Jamaica, Zimbabwe, USA, Greece and a couple that Wikipedia didn't know.

Bronze:

England = 14
Wales = 0
Scotland = 0

That includes the brilliantly named rower, Stephen Rowbotham, who is supposedly born in Swindon. Woo.

So, yes, England have far more medals than the other countries put together. 80% ish to England...  :)

You're a legend Chris.

I watched that earlier and he did a fantastic job.

Think GB as a whole have surpassed themselves this olympics.

 It's certainly set things up for 2012....might even allow the government to shell out the odd, promised 100 million  shortfall in funding that teh private sector has failed to find.

 

I hadn't realised this. I think 3 gold medals from a population of around £3m for Wales is actually pretty good. It would put us about 16th / 17th in the table.

And Scotland with a similar size of population has 3 silvers as well.

 Hopefully by 2012,  Scotland will be competing own their own...can't ever seeing it happen for Wales.

 Fair play to Hoy...he's accepted his funding without complaint...not somethoing Murray would do.

Isn't it worth staying together to beat the Aussies? It's a wonderful thing, I wish we could get more used to it.

 Much cheaper to offload the Scots and pay Aussies to coach our squads, works well enough.

The Population / gold table is an interesting read. Well sort of.

http://www.symworld.com/medals/index.php?sort=gold

I guess Scotland would end up top of that if they were independent

 On the conventional medal table top ten, the only nation we never seem to have been at war with is the Ukraine...well I suppose you could argue Australia as well.

Whats scotlands facilities like? Could they cope with competing independantly

 Apart from the fact as stated before Chris Hoy is based in Manchester and funded mainly by English money....I guess the Sweaties would be a bit similar to Eire, but wouldn't spend as much money.

india are pretty shite

Surely the population to Gold Medals table would be destroyed by Mark Phelps declaring independence: 8 golds per 1 of population is a fair feat.

 Think Pakistan is the lanterne rouge, when it comes to population and lack of Olympic success.

 Don't know anything about Mark Phelps....but Brian Phelps could probably declare independence....being banged up on 9 year stretch for a bit of teh Gary Glitter's, having previously won a bronze in the 1960 Rome Olympics at diving. 

Not only would Scotland be top of the medals table, they'd also win X-Factor, be the world's leading superpower, have cured the common cold, solved global warming and colonised Mars if only we'd set them free and give them their oil revenue back. And invented the SlimFast low-fat deep fried pizza and Mars Bar in batter based diet. Bastard colonialists, eh?

Hey there's no need for you all to get fucking chippy about it, all I did was a bit of simple maths, I wasn't making some sort of reasoned argument for Scottish Independence based on a bit of sporting success.

What the fuck should I care I'm Welsh.

Erm, I was taking the piss. Must say I was expecting a bite from the Tartan contingent on here, not the Welsh, but it's all good ;-)

It's a left-wing bitch fight! :D

See Panama won there first ever Gold medal,i take my hat of to him!
Seriously how big a star is he going to be back home.

he'd have to swim all 4 legs for the team events though - might be blowing a bit at the end!