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« on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 19:18:38 » |
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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?
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janaage
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 19:50:04 » |
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think eng on both counts. saw this on bbc site blog earlier.
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Nemo
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 19:53:39 » |
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Chris Hoy is doing a damned good job for Scotland mind.
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 20:02:43 » |
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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...  |
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Weasel
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 20:14:55 » |
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You're a legend Chris.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 21:07:22 » |
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Chris Hoy is doing a damned good job for Scotland mind.
I watched that earlier and he did a fantastic job. Think GB as a whole have surpassed themselves this olympics. |
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 21:26:57 » |
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I watched that earlier and he did a fantastic job.
Think GB as a whole have supassed 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. |
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 21:30:18 » |
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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.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 21:38:32 » |
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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. |
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« Reply #9 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 21:41:16 » |
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Isn't it worth staying together to beat the Aussies? It's a wonderful thing, I wish we could get more used to it.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 21:43:45 » |
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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. |
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 21:53:18 » |
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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.
The Population / gold table is an interesting read. Well sort of. http://www.symworld.com/medals/index.php?sort=gold |
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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 21:59:19 » |
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I guess Scotland would end up top of that if they were independent
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 22:00:47 » |
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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.
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 22:03:13 » |
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Whats scotlands facilities like? Could they cope with competing independantly
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