London 2012 Olympics Thread

[minionofmidas]

Croatia wins Waterball Gold.

So, there's only 1 contest left I guess (Modern Pentathlon).

An Austrian came sixth in it. Now that would have been hilarious if they'd finally won their first medal in the last event.

[minionofmidas]

Full Medal Jacked

1     United States (USA)    46    29    29    104
2     China (CHN)    38    27    22    87
3     Great Britain (GBR)*    29    17    19    65
4     Russia (RUS)    24    25    33    82
5     South Korea (KOR)    13    8    7    28
6     Germany (GER)    11    19    14    44
7     France (FRA)    11    11    12    34
8     Italy (ITA)    8    9    11    28
9     Hungary (HUN)    8    4    5    17
10     Australia (AUS)    7    16    12    35
11     Japan (JPN)    7    14    17    38
12     Kazakhstan (KAZ)    7    1    5    13
13     Netherlands (NED)    6    6    8    20
14     Ukraine (UKR)    6    5    9    20
15     Cuba (CUB)    5    3    6    14
16     New Zealand (NZL)    5    3    5    13
17     Iran (IRI)    4    5    3    12
18     Jamaica (JAM)    4    4    4    12
19     Czech Republic (CZE)    4    3    3    10
20     North Korea (PRK)    4    0    2    6
21     Spain (ESP)    3    10    4    17
22     Brazil (BRA)    3    5    9    17
23     Belarus (BLR)    3    5    5    13
24     South Africa (RSA)    3    2    1    6
25     Ethiopia (ETH)    3    1    3    7
26     Croatia (CRO)    3    1    2    6
27     Romania (ROU)    2    5    2    9
28     Kenya (KEN)    2    4    5    11
29     Denmark (DEN)    2    4    3    9
30     Azerbaijan (AZE)    2    2    6    10
 Poland (POL)    2    2    6    10
32     Turkey (TUR)    2    2    1    5
33     Switzerland (SUI)    2    2    0    4
34     Lithuania (LTU)    2    1    2    5
35     Norway (NOR)    2    1    1    4
36     Canada (CAN)    1    5    12    18
37     Sweden (SWE)    1    4    3    8
38     Colombia (COL)    1    3    4    8
39     Georgia (GEO)    1    3    3    7
 Mexico (MEX)    1    3    3    7
41     Ireland (IRL)    1    1    3    5
42     Argentina (ARG)    1    1    2    4
 Serbia (SRB)    1    1    2    4
 Slovenia (SLO)    1    1    2    4
45     Tunisia (TUN)    1    1    1    3
46     Dominican Republic (DOM)    1    1    0    2
47     Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)    1    0    3    4
 Uzbekistan (UZB)    1    0    3    4
49     Latvia (LAT)    1    0    1    2
50     Algeria (ALG)    1    0    0    1
 Bahamas (BAH)    1    0    0    1
 Grenada (GRN)    1    0    0    1
 Uganda (UGA)    1    0    0    1
 Venezuela (VEN)    1    0    0    1
55     India (IND)    0    2    4    6
56     Mongolia (MGL)    0    2    3    5
57     Thailand (THA)    0    2    1    3
58     Egypt (EGY)    0    2    0    2
59     Slovakia (SVK)    0    1    3    4
60     Armenia (ARM)    0    1    2    3
 Belgium (BEL)    0    1    2    3
 Finland (FIN)    0    1    2    3
63     Bulgaria (BUL)    0    1    1    2
 Estonia (EST)    0    1    1    2
 Indonesia (INA)    0    1    1    2
 Malaysia (MAS)    0    1    1    2
 Puerto Rico (PUR)    0    1    1    2
 Chinese Taipei (TPE)    0    1    1    2
69     Botswana (BOT)    0    1    0    1
 Cyprus (CYP)    0    1    0    1
 Gabon (GAB)    0    1    0    1
 Guatemala (GUA)    0    1    0    1
 Montenegro (MNE)    0    1    0    1
 Portugal (POR)    0    1    0    1
75     Greece (GRE)    0    0    2    2
 Moldova (MDA)    0    0    2    2
 Qatar (QAT)    0    0    2    2
 Singapore (SIN)    0    0    2    2
79     Afghanistan (AFG)    0    0    1    1
 Bahrain (BRN)    0    0    1    1
 Hong Kong (HKG)    0    0    1    1
 Saudi Arabia (KSA)    0    0    1    1
 Kuwait (KUW)    0    0    1    1
 Morocco (MAR)    0    0    1    1
 Tajikistan (TJK)    0    0    1    1

[MaxQue]

LOL:

What?
It was the canadian duet, whose theme was the circus.
It's clearly an imitation of a jack-in-the-box,

[Lief 🗽]

Well, we did it. We beat Red China. Congrats America, you're still #1.

[Platypus]

Top 10 by golds is already shown in Lewis's list; by total medals:

USA
China
Russia
Great Britain
Germany
Japan
Australia
France
South Korea
Italy

By medal points:
225 USA
197 China
155 Russia
140 Great Britain
85 Germany
67 France
66 Japan
65 Australia
62 South Korea
53 Italy

So, conclusive win to the US.

[patrick1]

Oughtn't that to be "Hand Polo"?

It's a shame they got rid of the horses. God forbid we upset the animal rights people.

[danny]

Oughtn't that to be "Hand Polo"?

It's a shame they got rid of the horses. God forbid we upset the animal rights people.

Is that why they don't have polo? How is it more damaging than jumping over barriers?

[patrick1]

Oughtn't that to be "Hand Polo"?

It's a shame they got rid of the horses. God forbid we upset the animal rights people.

Is that why they don't have polo? How is it more damaging than jumping over barriers?

No, I was referencing the magnificent sport of water polo with horses. Animal cruelty, be damned ... 

[Silent Hunter]

85 medal countries, no new record. Austria, Nigeria, Vietnam, Israel ...

There are 195 or so countries at the moment.

So, we are on the side of the majority ...

204 in these games actually - plus the independent competitors (South Sudan doesn't have a committee yet).

[BaldEagle1991]

The US finally beat Spain in the basketball final by 107-100.

YAY

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

The US finally beat Spain in the basketball final by 107-100.

YAY

[Hash]

Assuming the medal count is final, brief comparisons to 2008 (for fun)

The US wins 10 more golds, but 6 less total
China wins 13 less golds and total medals
GB wins 10 more golds, and 18 more total
Russia wins one more gold and 9 more total
South Korea wins 2 less total, same number of golds as in 2008
Germany wins 5 less golds, but 3 more total
France wins 4 more golds, but 7 less total medals
Australia wins 7 less golds, and 10 less total
Japan loses 2 golds, but gains 14 total
Italy wins one more total medal, no changes on gold
Cuba wins 10 less medals, but 3 more golds (29th place in 2008, 15th in 2012)
Hungary gains 5 golds and 7 total
Canada loses 2 golds, but the overall medal count is unchanged from 2008. Tied for seventh in bronze medals
Kazakhstan gains 5 gold medals, but unchanged on the total
Future hosts Brazil gained 3 total medals but did not win any extra golds compared to 2008

Cyprus, Gabon, Bahrain, Botswana, Grenada and Guatemala win their first medals ever

In all athletic events, the US won 29 total (9 gold), Russia won 18 total (8 gold) and Jamaica won 12 total (4 gold)
In all swimming events, the US owned with 31 total (16 total) versus 10 total (5 gold) for the Chintoks. France placed third with 7 total, 4 gold.
In diving, however, China won 10 total - including 6 gold - against only 4 (and 1 gold) for Muricah. Mexicans won 3 total, but no gold medals.

Michael Phelps (USA) won the most medals overall (6) including 4 golds.
Missy Franklin (USA) won the second most (5), as did Allison Schmitt (USA), Ryan Lochte (USA) and Alicia Coutts (AUS) but 4 of Missy's 5 medals were golds, none of the 3 others listed won 4 golds in total

[Platypus]

Already loving the closing ceremony. 'Our house' was an inspired choice to kick things off properly.

[afleitch]

Remember to 'sha-la-la' or Ray Davies will come get you...slowly.

[Hash]

CTV is back with terrible coverage of the closing ceremony, being focused entirely on Canadian athletes being idle (and about how our bronze medals are really impressive).

[Niemeyerite]

I loved the basketball match. Spanish players (specially Pau and Navarro) were awesome. But the USA team is just unbeatable. Congratulations, Americans, it was a great game!! I'm really, really glad with our silver medal, the same one we had in Beijing.

[Platypus]

Fashion? Seriously?  that. Give me Kylie on a high heel or The Seekers on a thong any day.

[BaldEagle1991]

I loved the basketball match. Spanish players (specially Pau and Navarro) were awesome. But the USA team is just unbeatable. Congratulations, Americans, it was a great game!! I'm really, really glad with our silver medal, the same one we had in Beijing.

There's this running joke that if you are playing in Olympic Basketball and not an American, you're playing for Silver.

[Platypus]

Cos we all know the Americans only play for gold.

...


Rio changeover bit crummy, no?

[Platypus]

'Happy and Glorious' games. Very appropriate.

But not the best games ever

[Supersonic]

Well I've got to say the Closing Ceremony was absolutely fantastic!

Bang up job by the organisers.

Oh and seeing Boris Johnson dancing with glee to the Spice Girls is priceless.

[Niemeyerite]

I loved the basketball match. Spanish players (specially Pau and Navarro) were awesome. But the USA team is just unbeatable. Congratulations, Americans, it was a great game!! I'm really, really glad with our silver medal, the same one we had in Beijing.

There's this running joke that if you are playing in Olympic Basketball and not an American, you're playing for Silver.

Yes, that's true. And that's why we have a gold medal made of silver But, playing only a little better, we could have had a gold medal made of gold...

[You kip if you want to...]

I think the closing ceremony was the most embarrassing piece of TV that i've ever seen. Made me feel genuinely ashamed of being British. Horrendous!

Nothing like the incredible opening ceremony at all.

[Yelnoc]

I loved the basketball match. Spanish players (specially Pau and Navarro) were awesome. But the USA team is just unbeatable. Congratulations, Americans, it was a great game!! I'm really, really glad with our silver medal, the same one we had in Beijing.

There's this running joke that if you are playing in Olympic Basketball and not an American, you're playing for Silver.

Yes, that's true. And that's why we have a gold medal made of silver But, playing only a little better, we could have had a gold medal made of gold...

Yeah, I was surprised at the final score.  7 point difference.

[BaldEagle1991]

I preferred the Closing Ceremony of Vancouver's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYlCGQ628gE