**Offical Olympic Medal Count thread**

Daria Morgendorffer said:
And yet our athletes are the best at winning consecutive medals. In the top 10 for totals earned 7 are American. American athletes are the ONLY ones to earn more than 3 medals per athlete.
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Of course another way of looking at that is many of your medals come from relatively few athletes, which means that they are getting on a bit and that you do not really have strength in depth.
 
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Lowaicue said:
Do the racist republicans who parade their filth accept the successes of the black american athletes?
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I was reading something in the Daily Mail a while ago about Jesse Owens, it said that contrary to popular myth he was treated better by the Germans in 1936 than by many of his own countrymen. Now please don't be lazy and click on the link, it is a fascinating article. I was particualrly surprised of the incident in the Waldord Astoria as I never realised that they had segregation in New York hotels.

Whatever the truth, Owens always resisted his role as a political symbol. Having grown up in the segregated American South, the grandson of slaves, he was impatient with American claims of moral superiority over the Nazis. 'After all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country and I couldn't ride in the front of the bus,' Owens recalled. 'I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?' Owens was given a tickertape parade in New York. But when he arrived at the Waldorf Astoria hotel for a reception in his honour, he was instructed to take the service lift rather than the normal guest lift, which was reserved for whites.

Owens powering his way at the start of the 200m event, which he won, during the Olympic Games in Berlin where he captured four gold medals President Franklin Roosevelt never congratulated Owens or invited him to the White House. 'Hitler didn't snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me,' Owens said. Owens had his own memories of Berlin which differed starkly from the propaganda version. While the Nazis vilified the black American athletes, the German people cheered on Owens and his team-mates, clamouring for photos and autographs.

Owens later said that his greatest memory of the Games was not the races, the medal ceremonies or the politics. It was of his German rival in the long jump, Luz Long. On the surface, Long was the embodiment of the Aryan dream: tall, blue-eyed and blond. The American was struggling in the early rounds of the long jump contest and risked going out before the final. Long introduced himself. He said he had been watching Owens's jumps and made a mark a few inches before the take-off board and suggested Owens jump from there, to ensure he qualified.

Owens took his advice and made it to the finals, which he won. The first person to congratulate him was Long. The two men exchanged letters after the Games. 'It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler,' Owens said. 'You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Luz Long at that moment.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...black-Olympian-Jesse-Owens.html#ixzz23Llat8ND
 
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Aoxomoxoa said:
Of course another way of looking at that is many of your medals come from relatively few athletes, which means that they are getting on a bit and that you do not really have strength in depth.
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Or it could show we are far more discriminating in who we allow on the Olympic teams, as only people capable of winning multiple medals are allowed.
 
**FINAL TALLY**


#1. AMERICA (FUCK YEAH!) 46 gold, 29 silver, 29 bronze
#2. China. 38 gold, 27 silver, 22 bronze.
#3. Russia. 24 gold, 25 silver, 33 bronze.
#4. United Kingdom. 29 gold, 17 silver, 19 bronze.
#5. Germany. 11 gold, 19 silver, 14 bronze.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
I was reading something in the Daily Mail a while ago about Jesse Owens, it said that contrary to popular myth he was treated better by the Germans in 1936 than by many of his own countrymen. Now please don't be lazy and click on the link, it is a fascinating article. I was particualrly surprised of the incident in the Waldord Astoria as I never realised that they had segregation in New York hotels.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...black-Olympian-Jesse-Owens.html#ixzz23Llat8ND
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This aspect of the 'hitler' games has been written about before. It is as sad today as it was then. I still do not understand how an otherwise civilised and intelligent nation like th US can believe black men to be of an inferior species and believe that a fairy in the sky says its OK.
AND THEY THINK THEY ARE RIGHT!!!!!
 
enough said:
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yeah...it is all about per capita....please tell me you're joking
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No, it is not about per capita, nor is it about who wins most medals. It is about the Olympic Spirit that, because of London 2012, is probably better understood now than ever before.
Children can count medals. Adults can see how man has been improved even for a fleeting moment.
 
Lowaicue said:
This aspect of the 'hitler' games has been written about before. It is as sad today as it was then. I still do not understand how an otherwise civilised and intelligent nation like th US can believe black men to be of an inferior species and believe that a fairy in the sky says its OK.
AND THEY THINK THEY ARE RIGHT!!!!!
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If history is correct, it was the British that seemed have a problem in thinking that certain people in other countries were inferior; ie: those from India, Aftica, the Arabs, Native American Indians, the poor from their own country, etc.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
If history is correct, it was the British that seemed have a problem in thinking that certain people in other countries were inferior; ie: those from India, Aftica, the Arabs, Native American Indians, the poor from their own country, etc.
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Do you really think anybody here thinks that you have a grasp of history? Where the fuck in Aftica?
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Do you really think anybody here thinks that you have a grasp of history? Where the fuck in Aftica?
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One of the many differences between Britain and America is that, in the ensuing years, we have learned to be better. They have fought to be worse.
 
Lowaicue said:
One of the many differences between Britain and America is that, in the ensuing years, we have learned to be better. They have fought to be worse.
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He talks about Native Indians as if they were decimated by the British. What the fuck do they teach fools like Dumbo anyway? I am not even sure that he achieved a GED level of education?
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Do you really think anybody here thinks that you have a grasp of history? Where the fuck in Aftica?
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Yeah, that's the way Tom.
Go after the spelling, instead of the meaning.

I'm just so chastized, Tom, that I don't know what to do. :(

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
He talks about Native Indians as if they were decimated by the British. What the fuck do they teach fools like Dumbo anyway? I am not even sure that he achieved a GED level of education?
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Did I say that timmie, or even imply such?
If so, please show the comment; that is, unless you're just still butt hurt and the salve didn't help. :D
 
Lowaicue said:
One of the many differences between Britain and America is that, in the ensuing years, we have learned to be better. They have fought to be worse.
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1) You have followed OUR lead to be better, along with the rest of the Western world.
2) You lot basically gave up hard fights when you abandoned Greece after WWII, and left the matter on our doorstep.
 
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