medals the USA will garner over the next 3 weeks?
medals the USA will garner over the next 3 weeks?
I'm going to say 102 total medals - 32 of them Gold.
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Somewhere around 100. China will be close & could win more medals.
That's about 10% less than 2008 and significantly less gold medals.
China only cares about gold, so they'll probably be #1 in that again. Overall medals will definitely be much closer.
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Not as many as the Brits.
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Not if we can help itAh, I love being a part of an international forum!Not as many as the Brits.
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Yeah, what Susan (aka Susie Snowflake) said! Was looking for something else earlier & ran across this interesting tidbit:Ah, I love being a part of an international forum!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/sp...pagewanted=all
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Congratulations to Ryan Lochte for dominating one of the most difficult swimming events. The 400 IM is the ironman of swimming events and Lochte cruised to a gold stunning Michael Phelps. Too bad he didn't break the world record, he was close most of the way.
I predict these games belong to Lochte! Phelps did not have the commitment and I think it shows.
No offence Ian, but we Aussies will be devestated if the Brits beat us in the overall medal count.Not as many as the Brits.
The way we're going at the moment that has to be a real possibility.
I hesitate to bring this up..... but I always have my suspicions that "some countries" (not the USA, Brits, Australia, NZ, Holland etc) may be tempted to use "performance enhancing substances" either prior to or during the games. I'm sure that there are "masking agents" that make these substances difficult to detect. It unfortunately casts a dark cloud over the legitimacy of games as an international sporting competition of goodwill.
Looks like I severely underestimated our gold medal total. Granted, the swimmers did much better than expected, gold-wise.
With 111 of 302 gold medals awarded, the US already has 21. With Track and Field just beginning and virtual guarantees for gold in basketball (and very likely golds in volleyball and soccer), 32 seems like a very attainable number.
The US currently has 43 overall medals - so 102 looks like it's probably going to be low as well.
I thought we'd be behind China at this point in the Games (lots of our best events are back loaded). Currently the US is one medal up (43-42) and one gold ahead (21-20).
It's definitely a two nation race, but I think the US is in very good position to come out on top once again.
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Not any great prognosticator, but will add here that I am glad to learn I did not miss all the diving (did yesterday, I hear). The other TV has only rabbit ears,does not get the Olympics channel. Anyway, hear finals are tomorrow for the girls. Is the guys' diving all over & I missed it all? Anyway, glad to see this bit of it ... one of those things that amazes to watch, when the most difficult thing I have ever done is to try going backwards a couple times or so. Ha!
Hoping we have not mssed synchronized, having done a wee big of that eons ago.
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Glad the US and the Brits are having a great olympics...... disappointed in our own lacklustre performance; perhaps this reflects the "cuts"in Federal Government funding since the last Games. I'll bet they increase their funding for the respective sporting associations in preparation for the next Olympics; either that of face a voter backlash! (We Aussies take our sport very seriously) Nonetheless, even though we're rather light on in our "golden" luggage to bring home, at least we've won a stack of "silverwear", so I guess I can't complain too much.
David, the US does pretty well with no government funding of its Olympic team. You can figure it out. You'll also have home hemisphere advantage next time around - that's got to count for something.
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Yeah but you'se blokes have a Population size advantage..... we've always punched above our weight on the sporting field and since the 1980's when the Australian Gov't set up the Australian Institute of Sport it has occurred through improved training of our athletes which requires a lot of funding. Hence our Government's involvement.
The Federal Government is going to hold a "review" over our poor performance in the pool, to see how we can improve things for next time. I'm not sure how a change of hemisphere's will benefit us much.
It's swimming and the toilets flush the opposite way. There's got to be some way to make that work to your advantage.
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Danyal Gajiyev is ruining the best joke of the week, though. Prior to his bronze today, Kazakstan had six medals - all gold. I was hoping for a "when the President told them, 'it's gold or nothing,' the athletes really took him seriously," joke at the end of the week.
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yeah, I was surprised over the poor performance in the area of swimming.
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