Olympic Medal tally

Go Aussie Go!!!

Published on August 16, 2004 By Muggaz In Sports & Leisure

This medal tally is updated almost instantaneously, so for immediate gratification (If you are Australian that is.. hehe...) you can check out the latest results right here!!!
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Comments (Page 2)

Muggaz

on Aug 17, 2004

Why is the American baseball team missing from the Olympics?

They failed to beat Mexico in the Qualifiers

What are all China's medals for?

Click on the link in the medal tally - and it will tell you! - I know you are lazy though so here
Men's 10m Rifle Gold: Qinan Zhu
Men's 10m Rifle Silver: Jie Li
Women's 58kg (Weightlifting) Gold: Yanqing Chen
Women's 100m Breaststroke Gold: Luo Xuejan
Men's 62kg (Weightlifting) Gold: Zhiyong Shi
Men's 62kg (Weightlifting) Silver: Maosheng Le
Women's Synchronised 10m Platform Gold: Team
Women's -52kg (Judo) Gold: Dongmei Xian
Men's 56kg (Weightlifting) Silver: Meijin Wu
Women's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Li Du
Men's 10m Air Pistol Gold: Yifu Wang
Women's -48kg (Judo) Bronze: Gao Feng
Women's Synchronised 3m Springboard Gold: Guo Jingjing & Minxia Wu
Women's 48kg (Weightlifting) Silver: Zhuo Li
Men's Synchronised 10m Platform Gold: Liang Tian & Jinghui Yang

Also - does anyone else find it odd that USA has 13 medals and yet they're in 4th place behind Japan who only has 7medals but they have more Gold then the USA?

Nope - not odd at all... Gold is paramount.... you can have 1 gold medal, no silvers and no bronze, and you will still be ranked higher than a country with 30 silver and 60 bronze... Gold is GREAT!!!!

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olikara

on Aug 17, 2004

US: 13
Australia: 13

Mein Gott!!

chiprj

on Aug 17, 2004

Muggaz, it must have been my lame dial up connection last night giving me the problems because today, on my work computer, I can see the table just fine. Thanks for posting this. I think it's great info!

Why is the American baseball team missing from the Olympics?They failed to beat Mexico in the Qualifiers

How crazy is that?!?!?!?! I was wondering the same thing and found a story on it at Yahoo. What's even crazier is that they are the reigning gold medalists from the 2000 games and there was no automatic berth but Greece as the host country got an automatic berth into the 8 team bracket (in 2000 it was 12 teams). Even worse, the Greek team came to the states to recruit athletes of Greek parents to come play for their team (prior to construction for the Olympics, Greece had a grand total of two baseball fields in the entire country - left over on the remains of two US bases that had been closed years earlier). And, digging even lower, two of those 'borrowed ringers' tested positive for banned substances... man, what a tangled web... Sour grapes all around on this one...

Also - does anyone else find it odd that USA has 13 medals and yet they're in 4th place behind Japan who only has 7medals but they have more Gold then the USA?

It just depends on the site that reports the scores and how they want to do it. Some places are going by medal count, this one is going by gold medal count.

Stroughzer

on Aug 17, 2004

Right now it shows the US ahead in overall medal count and tied with ozzie and japan for second in terms of Gold. I'm kind of worried about the States this year. With all the drug scandals and a craptacular basketball team, I think we are starting to lose some edge but it's still very early and athletics haven't even started. And one of my biggest pet peeves is people who use medals per capita. I think its just silly. Just win the stinkin medals!

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 17, 2004

Our basketball team is poised to be a national embarassment.

"Word" to AI: you might want to stick around in Athens to see if any European leagues want to take you; if you can't play a golden game, you might not WANT to head back to the US.

Cosmos77

on Aug 17, 2004

Just think... had Thorpie touched just a bit faster, that table would look a WHOLE lot different!

Still, damn good effort from the Aussies...

And one of my biggest pet peeves is people who use medals per capita. I think its just silly. Just win the stinkin medals!

... spoken like a true American!

Cosmos

Muggaz

on Aug 17, 2004

Just think... had Thorpie touched just a bit faster, that table would look a WHOLE lot different!

I almost cried.... that Gold was so our's count sarn it

... spoken like a true American!

Touché indeed!!!

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trina_p

on Aug 18, 2004

Speaking of Thorpe - What a spectacular effort in the 100m -- Bronze -- He's the most successful Australian swimmer in history now - he's got one more medal then Dawn Fraser and Susie O'Neil and he's still got the relay to go
It's not even his event and he got a Bronze - I think he was happier to get that Bronze then he was when he won Gold a few days ago.

Keiren Perkins said that it's the first medal Australia's gotten in that event in 20years - and noone has got a medal in all three 100, 200 and 400 - That's amazing - Go Thorpie

Hey - We were talking about this this morning -- what year was that amazing Perkins swim - you know the one when he was like 2 laps ahead of the other 7 swimmers? And he smashed the world record - Was it 1996?

Muggaz

on Aug 18, 2004

Was it 1996?

He was written off at the Atlanta olympics... no one thought he would win because he entered the Olympics on the back of a couple of mediochre swims... Everyone though Kowalski would win gold.... Perkins burst onto the scene at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics... that was the first race he blitzed the field... Atlanta was all the more special though, because I won $50 on a bet I placed with my mate

I think the world record was broken on both occassions... Hacket now has the record, and in my opinion, it's one of the safest world records in Sport... Australia will continue to own the 1500m swim for the next 10 years as well!!!

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trina_p

on Aug 18, 2004

In grade 9 you won a $50 bet?

i have memories of watching the olympics in both grade 4 (1992) and grade 8 (1996) - so I can't even rely on those to help me remember. Are you sayiong the race I'm thinking of is the one noone thought he'd win - that Daniel Kowalski was supposed to win that one? And it was 1996?

Thorpe - Nick said this was his 3rd Olympics - but that would mean 1996 and he would have been 13 -- I said I think he debued at the Commonwealth games in 1998 - when he was 15 -- but all I can remember was having a big crush on him in and that ebing the only reason I ever watched the Swimming in highschool.

Muggaz

on Aug 18, 2004

Yeah - Nick doesn't know what he is talking about - he made his debut at the commonwealth games as a 15 year old - he had great expectations placed on him, and he has certainly lived up to those expectations...

And yes - I made and won a $50 bet in year 9!!! I am just stupidly arrogant when it comes to Australia and Australia winning events - in this case, it paid off!!!

Barcelona was 92 - and he was an unknown quantity back then, we knew he would do well, but to break the world record was amazing... 1996 was wehen he SMASHED his own world record against the pundits opinions... it was classic Aussie underdog stuff... even though in my book, he was never the underdog - i had $50 riding on the sucker!!!

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Muggaz

on Aug 19, 2004

Good basketball game last night eh Yanks? hehe... we almost had you!!!

This is the best Olympics ever!!!!

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chiprj

on Aug 20, 2004

Good basketball game last night eh Yanks? hehe... we almost had you!!!

That was a good one. The Australian team put it all out there!

This is the best Olympics ever!!!!

I don't know, the 1980 Winter Games still ranks up there for me! But, the games are going great this year!

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 20, 2004

Good basketball game last night eh Yanks? hehe... we almost had you!!!

Yes, but we SUCK!! Mugz...which can only mean one thing...

Never mind, it's YOUR blog...lol.

We have had some overperformers among our teams as well. The men's gymnastics team was a surprise to all but themselves.

Muggaz

on Aug 22, 2004

Whoop Whoop Lithuania!!!!

Go Dawg!!!

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