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Am I the only one who thinks Michael Phelps is an absolute beast? The dude is 5-5 winning all gold medals!
A further example of his beastlyness....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402681,00.html

All I can say is....GO USA!!!!

Yeah we own everything. *waits for snoopy to post his USA hate*

goddam it how many of them do we need....

Rofl, I don't hate Americans, I love them. I dislike arrogant / ignorant Americans.

I think well done to Phelps, He's doing amazing with all his gold. Smashing records too. Sad to think though, that in a few Olympics time, he probably wont be able to do so, and will end up retiring, like our Ian Thorpe.

Because you know we are better than the rest of the world.

Agreed.

There's like 4 other Olympics threads going on right now.

Exhibit A.

Is Phelps a professional or amateur athlete? Here in Canada, our atheletes practice their sport after work, and yet they are competing with professional athletes (eg. Chinese) who basically do nothing except to excell in their sport.

Anyway, Phelps is crazy, breaking his own world records 7 times in a row.

He is going for 8 Gold and USA isnt in first sadly we are in second with 17 gold compared to Chinas 28, and the summer Olympics are once every four years thats so think of it as one topic a year ^.^ (excluding the winter ones of course)

EDIT: Phelps has 8 gold new record for gold Medals

Canada sucks so much holy crap. When they announced the Olympics 4 years ago, all the other countries started like training right away, but Canada? Hell we just trained 6 months or so before the Olympics. Its sad really.

All I've been hearing about Canada during this Olympia was stuff like

"Great performance by Canada"
"Canada almost had it"
blah blah blah

THEN!

Canada gets Silver in rowing, what do they say? "CONGRATS ON YOUR FIRST MEDAL CANADA!" embarrassing lol

lol. It's embarrassing when Australia do bad too.

At least Australia has more than 1 medal right?

I could tell from Canada's attitude at the beginning was going to draw down on them.

Canada: WE WILL AIM FOR RANK 16 AND OVER!
China: WE WILL AIM FOR THE TOP!

And look at those 2 now, Canada is sucking Zyklon B gas and China is pwning in Gold Medals count

We have only 29 medals.
G: 8
S: 10
B: 11

I guess though, once again, not bad for a country with only 21 million people. We were doing better in Athens though.

they rank by the total medal they got or the most gold ?

Depends on what site, but IOC judged it by (for example) Gold = 3 points, Silver = 2, Bronze = 1.

Therefore: 1 Gold 2 Silver 5 Bronze = 12 pts, but 0 Gold 5 Silver 3 Bronze = 13 pts.

You don't need gold to win, but it's worth more.

Just an example.

with athletes whom got 50+hrs of training weekly, they better own

I go by whichever one has Canada ranked highest. For most of the time it didn't matter though, as it always ended up tying for last; in that case I went for whichever made the US ranked lower than China.

on the beijing site it ranks by gold then buy most
heres the ofical site: http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/I ... 0000.shtml

china and us are just owning other countries

us/china all got like 60 medals while the 3rd place uk only got 25

I wonder why russia isn't up at the top, russia usually ends up in the top 3 but they don't have too many medals this year.

Usain Bolt owned those americans at the 100m sprint, in style

Your not making them look good

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cute excuse for canadians

hm?

It's okay, Canada come second / third in Commonwealth Games (The best games cause Australia have like 80 gold, and UK have like 30 -.-)

Now Australia's in third again, we got third highest amount of medals ;D

Only 33, but that's better than half the other countries in the world with double, tripple, quadruple our population ;D

lol at the people bitching at countries with professional athletes.