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How do you think your nation is doing this Olympics?
You don't have to post your country if you don't want to. Just curious what people think.
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Fantastic!
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Better than I expected
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About what I expected
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Worse than I expected
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Terrible!
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I'm not watching the Olympics
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2012-08-01, 07:01 PM #1LOAD"*",8,1
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How do you think your nation is doing this Olympics?
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2012-08-01, 07:05 PM #2Deleted
Britain's doing about as poorly as I always expect them to.
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2012-08-01, 07:07 PM #3The Patient
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USA is doing Fantastic!
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2012-08-01, 07:10 PM #4Pit Lord
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Well, Canada has 5 so we are on track to do what we normally do of around 15 medals. It is a bit depressing to see that the States and China could stop competing entirely and they still would have more medals then us by the end of the games.
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2012-08-01, 07:14 PM #5Old God
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US is doing as I expected, fantastic. Which option do I pick Fuzz? #badpollisbad I love China being a huge powerhouse in the Summer Olympics now. Its nice having another country able to push massive medal numbers to compete against the US for the best overall performance.
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2012-08-01, 07:17 PM #6Field Marshal
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I'm Canadian. Gotta admit I haven't really been following the Olympics, but I just checked and it seems we're terrible at this.
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2012-08-01, 07:18 PM #7The Lightbringer
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not rly watching but i bet fantastic ^^
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2012-08-01, 07:32 PM #8LOAD"*",8,1
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So pick Fantastic??
Originally Posted by conscript
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2012-08-01, 07:45 PM #9Old God
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A little bit worse then expected I guess, a lot of the ones that was expect to do decent has flopped, I did not really have a lot of expectations though and some of our best athletes are injured and can't participate.
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2012-08-01, 07:58 PM #10Deleted
Britain are doing alright. Disappointed that Ainslie, Cavendish and Armistead weren't able to deliver gold, but those are the only events I feel we could have won. Hopefully the velodrome will improve our standing, and if we can get some boxing medals that would be great.
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2012-08-01, 08:06 PM #11Moderator
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I think we're a couple down from where we should be, but we've picked up other non gold medals that we weren't expecting. Swings and Roundabouts.
I'll stave off my opinion till we've gone through the rowing and velodrome, and even then we've still got boxing, individual eventing in Gymnastics and various T&F potentials.Ex-Mod. Technically retired, they just won't let me quit.
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2012-08-01, 08:14 PM #12Warchief
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About what I expected (i.e. not great), although there was a huge surprise today from the Men's Tennis doubles!
Couldn't believe they beat the Swiss Olympic champions. And of course kudos to them!
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2012-08-01, 08:20 PM #13DeletedBritain tends to do reasonably well in the olympics, and really isn't doing too badly at all so far. The management of the games so far, whilst not perfect, has been pretty good too. So this is a fairly stupid comment in my opinion. Originally Posted by CHALET
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2012-08-01, 08:25 PM #14Banned
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The United States is first in gold medals with 46 and 1st in overall medals at 104. So the United States did really good.
Last edited by anveena; 2012-08-12 at 11:40 PM. Reason: final medal count update
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2012-08-01, 08:30 PM #15The Patient
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Canada makes it up for always doing great in winter Olympics Originally Posted by Creeper
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2012-08-01, 08:31 PM #16Pandaren Monk
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Umm, what? Considering our population size and our geographical placement, we're doing just fine. We have 6 medals as of me writing this. Keep in mind we had the most golds at the last Winter Olympics too. Originally Posted by Creeper
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2012-08-01, 08:40 PM #17LOAD"*",8,1
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I wouldn't take the opinion of someone who isn't watching very seriously. Originally Posted by Sooba
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2012-08-01, 08:56 PM #18Pandaren Monk
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You're probably right. There's also this odd Canadian habit of underplaying any of our national strengths with the exception of being "nice guys". Or perhaps he's gotten used to our Winter Olympic medal hauls? At any rate it is nonsensical to think that we'll have the same absolute medal total as a summer-climate country with 3 to 50 times our population. Originally Posted by Fuzzzie
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2012-08-01, 09:02 PM #19Stood in the Fire
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great 1st place in gold
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2012-08-01, 09:02 PM #20Herald of the Titans
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i suppose im a tad un patriotic cause i havent watched them since '96 when they were in atlanta. i dunno they just dont do anything for me =(
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