Quote from sinbad :

I based the 300 on a single google search so you may be right, but regards it's a start that needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt.

Ah yes definitely. It's pretty skewed for both extremes of population and extremes of medals. I'll update it tonight and see what's changed.

@ TVE you can guess who won. No new WR though

Quote from sinbad :

It's a bit hard for China. All 300 medals divided by their 1344 millions, is 0.22. Those charts will always favour the smaller nations because whilst you may have more people to choose from, you can only enter the same number of events as everybody else.

Yes of course. I totted up the medals last night (and got 427) and even if they'd have won every single medal they would still only be 21st on medals per person :P Will do it again tonight and see if it changes, which it could well do if a small country gets even 1 medal

EDIT: Obviously they wouldn't be 21st if they'd got all the medals, they'd be 1st, but you know what I mean :P

So yeah the BBC lied when they said we were top of the "golds per population" table. Interesting to see how badly China are doing compared to their population size - 30th out of 34 for golds per population.

China: 0.018 golds per million population, 0.039 medals per million population
USA: 0.082 golds per million population, 0.171 medals per million population

Team GB: 0.225 golds per million population, 0.467 medals per million population

So one medal per 2 million population - not bad

Apparently top of medals per population

Quote from The Moose :

Only Intrepid could fail to be proud to be British after that lot

And I love the fact that probably the second most important race at the games (women's 100m) just seemed like such an anti-climax


GB.

Quote from de Souza :

And Phelps.

Yeah for once he's not top of the headlines Although bit props to him - amazing acheivement

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

as if it needed to be said, this is a jk.....although not far from the truth

Quote from CSF :

GB football team.

Hahaha yes

Quote from J@tko :

I wonder who will be on the front pages tomorrow

Might take that back now

6 golds in a day

I wonder who will be on the front pages tomorrow

I assume here: http://www.livestream.com/pmdtv

Fit Olympians from your home country?

I'm pretty sure VW wanted it made for some games convention, then they'd put it in LFS. No money changed hands.

Ledecky is only 15 they said. She doesn't know what she's doing they said.

Quote from Intrepid :

You just have to trust the stewards/officials to enforce the rules but I certainly wouldn't judge athletes who 'push' it.

Exactly - we got DQ'ed from the women's sprint for a very very small infringement (for which the judges have "discretion") and the Chinese got DQ'ed for an even smaller one. So if there were any issues they would have been DQ'ed right away.

Quote from deggis :

More unsportsmanship: http://www.guardian.co.uk/spor ... -hindes-crash-translation

To be fair France could have done exactly the same thing on the restart if they didn't think they'd gotten a good start. Slightly silly rule IMO.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Step 1: Get to D 4.0
Step 2: Find a week where Street Stock C is at a free track
Step 3: Time trail that sonofabitch
Step 4: Repeat once class C
Step 5: ????
Step 6: SUDDENLY PROFIT

Win.

Quote from MadCat360 :

Yes.

No? You can get at least to C in road on standard content and I think you can maybe get to even B on ovals (what class is the new SS series?)

EDIT: But yeah you can't get to A on standard content :P

EDIT 2: Hmm seems you can only get to D oval on standard content. I swear on the forum they've been going on about how you can get to B on standard content. Stupid Americans.

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Quote from TFalke55 :

as long as you have a group stage in a fixed tournament with multiple spots to advance you cannot avoid it. There can always be the situation that you have qualified already and with a draw or a lost match would bring you easier matches. If there was only one spot open or if there was another draw of matches afterwards it could be stopped

We were just debating this at home, and yeah you can't do it purely for the qualification places (e.g. if you have 2 teams on 4 point and 2 teams on 1 point, and they play each other then the teams on 4 will play for a draw) but I don't think in a group with just 4 teams you can end up with a situation where both teams can afford to play for a loss or draw :| But yeah the World Cup changed to try and avoid it. I've not seen it since I've been watching football

Bit of a stupid system really - used to do it like this in the football World Cup but stopped after one match ground to a halt after both teams needed a draw to qualify (can't remember when, will try and find it). But yeah it's disgraceful, particularly when people have paid a small fortune to be there.

Sounds good

Quote from TFalke55 :

Thought I saw Skodas at the road races. Cars are too similar these days especially when they are not in the focus. Didn't know about the Olympic Park though.

Yep definitely BMWs - I'm sure German TV will have lots of highlights of it as you won silver All the "taxis" for the competitors are 3-series. And the posters are all over the park with "Thanks to our sponsors......" with them all on it.

Have this saved and watched it the other day - great video and great series.

Quote from TFalke55 :

Well, it is this Olympic hypocracy. Since they are not calling them sponsors but supporters they don't have their logos at the venue. At the venues only the logos of the timekeeper (which is Omega), the organising body of the dicipline (e.g. IAAF in athletics, FINA in water sports or FIFA in football) and the logo of the clothes supplier on the clothes may appear. You can see it best in
football when you compare the adboards at the olympic competition to the one at the EURO or the World Cup. This also caused trouble in Vancouver 2010, where Adidas had a too big logo by some milimeters. Teams supplied by Adidas had to tape it over. Adidas shipped over new clothes with tinier logos.

BMW for example is not a worldwide supporter. Germany is supported by Audi, for example. It differs from nation to nation.

And yet if you watch the cycling time trial (like I am at the moment) all the cars are 3-series estates without the BMW badge taped over or anything. And IIRC there's BMW logos on several posters at the Olympic Park.

(Not disagreeing with you, agreeing your point about stupid hypocracy :P)

Quote from TFalke55 :

Also it is very problematic with motorsports because of the fact that it is a rolling advertisement show, but at the Olympic games there is a strict advertisement ban at the sport venue itself. Remember the opening ceremony - the logo of the Mini was painted over

Don't understand that - BMW are a sponsor