THE USA Kicking Ass in Olympics

[Mick Knox]

the basketball team exploding like the dolts they are not withstanding; we are #1.

WHOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[HEyHEY]

1. You mean "The United States" kicking ass in Olympics

;-)

[Endangered Specie]

2. Duh

We have the most athletes, and the best technology, not like anyone else stands a chance.


The Medal Count should be adjusted for # athletes present

[HEyHEY]

3. Actually, isn't Chine in the lead?

[HEyHEY]

4. nope, never mind

[Mick Knox]

5. actually, no

[Mick Knox]

6. better tech than Canada and France and China?

Give me a break.

Superior atheletes; no doubt about it.

FAR superior.

[HEyHEY]

7. Are you being serious?

Superior athletes?
What makes them superior?
Could it be tech and funding?

[Mick Knox]

8. tech?

explain yourself.

how much tech is needed for beach vollyball or gymnastics?

Canada for instance has everything we have.

USA 66
Canada 5

We have 10X better tech than Canada?

Dont think so.

[HEyHEY]

9. Okay one event

Also, with Canada you're comparing a country of 30 million to a country of 260 million. Hence you have a much larger drawing pot for athletes. But by tech I mean your system for developing athletes, like Australia is superior. Conditioning and equipment play a large role.

[Mick Knox]

10. yeah, cool huh?

just win baby.

Just congratulate us, dont be a spoil sport.

[HEyHEY]

11. Not being a spoil sport

Just putting things into perspective.

Just like when Canada beats Japan at hockey 32-0 I don't thumos my chest cause it's a no contest.

[Mick Knox]

14. yeah, its no contest

thats all i'm saying.

We are in agreement.

At least we can do one thing correct! and I'm thrilled.

Hey you werent one of them who went hogwild when Canada beat us in Womens Hockey last year were you?

No shortage of that that night.

[HEyHEY]

18. Of course

BUt that was a fair contest...except for the ref ;-)

[Mick Knox]

20. lol

See!

We're kicking your ass all over the place off the ice. I'll give ya the ice.. FOR NOW!

:)

[Swede]

12. I hear they are kicking ass in Iraq too.

American soldiers must be superior to Iraqi soldiers.

[Mick Knox]

15. really? I heard its a quagmire.. Where did you hear that?

[Swede]

17. America 1000 dead,Iraq 20,000.

You guys are kicking ass.

[tridim]

13. Canada does much better in the winter olympics

Makes sense, since Canada gets alot of snow. :shrug:

[HEyHEY]

19. anything with ice we rule at!

:-)

[eileen from OH]

16. I'll probably get slammed for this

but I don't care about the "U.S" winning anything. As a former Olympic-watching junkie, it just doesn't do it for me anymore.

Maybe it was the oiled bodies playing beach volleyball (I'm waiting for mud and/or jello wrestling to become an event) or the whole plastic feel, or the medal count and the tenths of a point because a diver's feet were flat, but it's not fun or amateur or exciting to me anymore. Or maybe it started when professionals got involved, maybe it's because of all the endorsement shit, maybe it's the fact that steroid use is now almost a ho-hum thing.

Yes, I am an old grump.

eileen from OH

[Bundbuster]

21. I'm with ya, eileen

Every word of your post rings true for me, including the former junkie part.

Rather than being an old grump, I think you just have an honest, objective perspective.

[Endangered Specie]

22. Its that type smug attitude...

that makes me want to pull for anyone but the US.


We are the "best" in the medal count becasue we have the MOST athletes there, and have the most funding, technology, and training, we are like the New York Yankees to Baseball, or Microsoft to the Computer Software market, only good because of $$$$ and shear weight.

[GregW]

23. What I don't understand is ...

If the United States has 10x the population of Australia, why doesn't it have 10x the medals?

:freak: :shrug:

[Poiuyt]

24. Why doesn't China have 10X as many medals as the US?

[alarimer]

25. I root for the US

And I am especially pleased that Paul Foerster won the gold in the 470 sailing event. That was very cool. He is from the town I live in now (Corpus Christi) and just got in tonight.

I like to see good performances though more than anything. I loved it that the Greeks won the synchronized diving. A strange sport but it must have been nice to win at home like that.