USA Medal Count Watch

XcalibuR · Post #21 » by **XcalibuR** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:17 am

Wow huge upset, China just lost women's doubles to japan in the quarters.

XcalibuR · Post #22 » by **XcalibuR** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:31 am

Alain Bernard screwed it up for the French! Phelps wasn't even the best swimmer in that relay it was the US's final swimmer. The world record was SHATTERED.

canoner · Post #23 » by **canoner** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:04 am

XcalibuR wrote:Alain Bernard screwed it up for the French! Phelps wasn't even the best swimmer in that relay it was the US's final swimmer. The world record was SHATTERED.

and it was not like Bernard had a slow 100m, he swam within 47 sec. But Jason swam an inhuman 46.06

I still cannot believe a man can swim 100m in barely 46 sec.

canoner · Post #24 » by **canoner** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:05 am

XcalibuR wrote:Wow huge upset, China just lost women's doubles to japan in the quarters.

yeah. Though chinese team still has the #2 and #3 seeded duos in the competition. But it was a HUGE upset.

Storm Surge · Post #25 » by **Storm Surge** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:01 am

I see china beating the USA in gold medals this year(which is all that really counts IMO)

Texas Longhorns · Post #26 » by **Texas Longhorns** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:14 am

I think the U.S. will prevail. It's only been two days and now going into 3. Plenty of time for the U.S. to catch up.

canoner · Post #27 » by **canoner** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:39 am

Chinese team is really struggling. They should have got 9 gold by now if they performed on par. So I guess so far it is in favor of US.

hermes · Post #28 » by **hermes** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:48 pm

China up 14-12 in overall medals
and 9-3 in golds

canoner · Post #29 » by **canoner** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:47 pm

hermes wrote:China up 14-12 in overall medals
and 9-3 in golds

One more day that China missed multiple medals including one gold they are favored to win.

Texas Longhorns · Post #30 » by **Texas Longhorns** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:15 pm

But they also have a couple of surprise gold medal wins in there too.

Posey H8er · Post #31 » by **Posey H8er** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:05 am

What a difference an hour at the pool makes.

Texas Longhorns · Post #32 » by **Texas Longhorns** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:10 pm

China has 13 frickin gold medals and we only have 7! COME ON TEAM USA!!!!!!!!!!

Posey H8er · Post #33 » by **Posey H8er** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:43 pm

They will catch up. There are a lot of medals in track and field.

Texas Longhorns · Post #34 » by **Texas Longhorns** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:50 pm

Yeah, I forgot about Track and Field, it's such a big event for the U.S.

hermes · Post #35 » by **hermes** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:11 pm

China 20 medals- 13 gold
US 21 medals- 7 gold

Post #36 » by **The Duke** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:21 pm

I was about to start a thread like this for Canada then I realized.......

hermes · Post #37 » by **hermes** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:33 pm

Canada is having a rough time of it, i think during the parade of nations it said Canada had about 350 athletes at the games, you'd think they'd get some medals :dontknow:

Post #38 » by **The Duke** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:42 pm

They will get... but it will prolly be sub 10 or around there.... We just dont have the funds to compete on an international level for summer games...... but its no suprise really. Canada will be extremely competitive in Vancouver 2010 Olympics, as they have put decent funding towards the "Own the Podium" Campaign. But the Winter Olympics dwindles in comparison to the Summer Olympics

Field87ven · Post #39 » by **Field87ven** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:19 am

I'm sick of our atheletes being 6th, 7th and never favoured to win in anything. It's about time we got some real funding, doing well in just the winter games isn't good enough anymore. It's frustrating to watch us get killed everytime, you'd think with so many poor performances we could get at least SOME of our programs into elite status but that hasn't happened. We are breaking Canadian records but who cares when the rest of the world is doing the same but even moreso? Gawd i just want a medal so bad right now.

Posey H8er · Post #40 » by **Posey H8er** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:33 am

The United States is catching up and golds and taking a bigger overall medal lead.

I wish I could find a day by day medal count for Athens because I swear the US was down in golds early on also.