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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|

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Miles X

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Alebrije said:
Question :

If you compete for a country in London , can you compete for other in the next games? for those who have more than one nationality.
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I thought you could compete for whatever country you like? I always here talk of adopting certain athletes from other countries. Maybe I got it wrong.
 
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Big-E

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Alebrije said:
Question :

If you compete for a country in London , can you compete for other in the next games? for those who have more than one nationality.
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There are ways. There is an ex Soviet or Russian old lady who was participating in this Olympics for Germany. The reason she was with Germany is that she wanted to thank them for curing her son who had some rare disease where the only treatment was in Germany so I don't think she defected. Woman is 39 and competed in gymnastics in London, crazy story.
 
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Wes

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Alebrije said:
Question :

If you compete for a country in London , can you compete for other in the next games? for those who have more than one nationality.
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I think the IOC rules are that you can't compete for another country at an Olympic games if you change your nationality within a certain time (I think it's 2 or 3 years) before the next Games - unless your prior nationality's olympic committee grants you permission.

I swear I heard this somewhere although I could be making it up.
 
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3Sixty

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Dynopia said:
I thought you could compete for whatever country you like? I always here talk of adopting certain athletes from other countries. Maybe I got it wrong.
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I'm sure i remember a story a while back about Qatar basically paying someone to compete for them.
 
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Branduil

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Dynopia said:
I thought you could compete for whatever country you like? I always here talk of adopting certain athletes from other countries. Maybe I got it wrong.
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Chris Kaman played for Germany's basketball team in 2008 and I'm not sure he's ever even been to Germany.
 
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Zaraki_Kenpachi

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Dynopia said:
I thought you could compete for whatever country you like? I always here talk of adopting certain athletes from other countries. Maybe I got it wrong.
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I had always thought once you play for one country in international play that's all you can play for. The only exception being the country changes, USSR -> eastern european countries, czechoslovakia -> Czech Republic and Slovakia, etc., but I guess I'm wrong.
 
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Kjellson

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Don't get why people think dressage should be removed. Sure it's boring as fuck for many, but it's a competition about how good you are with the horse and a lot of people like it.

Also, sailing is way worse than the horse stuff.
 
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Monroeski

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Big-E said:
There are ways. There is an ex Soviet or Russian old lady who was participating in this Olympics for Germany. The reason she was with Germany is that she wanted to thank them for curing her son who had some rare disease where the only treatment was in Germany so I don't think she defected. Woman is 39 and competed in gymnastics in London, crazy story.
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Taken from this article that came out a few weeks ago -

"Oksana Chusovitina is possibly an alien or the product of a Soviet genetic experiment. She's 37 years old. She competed in her first Olympics in 1992 for the Soviet Union. She competed for Uzbekistan in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics. When her son -- yes, she's even given birth to a son! -- got cancer, she moved to Germany to get him better treatment and began competing for the German team. She won her second Olympic medal in 2008 in Beijing. Her specialty is vault."

SHE WON A MEDAL IN BEIJING AT AGE 33. Ridiculous.
 
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Gorillaz

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The black mamba is a true american hero...only one stone left unturned.

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dat first lady
 
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mrklaw

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UK GAF, is there any way to rematch entire events online? The 24 live streams are fantastic, but I was out today and want to watch the canoe doubles event but can't find it on the bbc sport page - there are just a few catchup items. You'd think that everything would be available. I think they should have one of the 24 channels do a rolling repeat of highlights so you can catch up easily whenever you need to
 
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Raist

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Let's play the "I prefer this kind of ranking" game!

1. South korea - 0.281
2. France - 0.245
3. GB - 0.240
4. USA - 0.119
5. China - 0.025

Medals per 1 million inhabitants.
 
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Salvadora

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mrklaw said:
UK GAF, is there any way to rematch entire events online? The 24 live streams are fantastic, but I was out today and want to watch the canoe doubles event but can't find it on the bbc sport page - there are just a few catchup items. You'd think that everything would be available. I think they should have one of the 24 channels do a rolling repeat of highlights so you can catch up easily whenever you need to
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Try searching for the sport. For example http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/sports/beach-volleyball & the catch up is on the right hand side.
 
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s7evn

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Kjellson said:
Don't get why people think dressage should be removed. Sure it's boring as fuck for many, but it's a competition about how good you are with the horse and a lot of people like it.

Also, sailing is way worse than the horse stuff.
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If you're going to remove baseball and softball then dressage should be looked at as well.
 
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Napoleonthechimp

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mrklaw said:
UK GAF, is there any way to rematch entire events online? The 24 live streams are fantastic, but I was out today and want to watch the canoe doubles event but can't find it on the bbc sport page - there are just a few catchup items. You'd think that everything would be available. I think they should have one of the 24 channels do a rolling repeat of highlights so you can catch up easily whenever you need to
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/schedule-results

Click on the rectangle next to the day/sport you want.
 
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G17

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Big-E said:
Oh God, CTV is doing dressage now on TV. Fuck.
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I've given up on their TV coverage. Online you can switch between TSN/CTV/SportsNet but you also get "World feeds" of events without commentary such as the match between Nigeria and USA right now.

Best part.. no ads/breaks.
 
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The Frankman

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No wonder Kobe is looking like he's 24 years old out there. A million Olympic women from every country around the world to choose from in ONE location.

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LTWheels

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mrklaw said:
UK GAF, is there any way to rematch entire events online? The 24 live streams are fantastic, but I was out today and want to watch the canoe doubles event but can't find it on the bbc sport page - there are just a few catchup items. You'd think that everything would be available. I think they should have one of the 24 channels do a rolling repeat of highlights so you can catch up easily whenever you need to
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Everything is archived:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video

Or click on the individual sports Olympic page and using the Schedule on the right can view footage.
 
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Officerrob

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BravesCountry said:
What's the gold medals per 1 million inhabitants ratio
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Gold medals per million population

1 Slovenia 0.5008
2 Lithuania 0.2836
3 New Zealand 0.2311
4 Georgia 0.2188
5 Hungary 0.2008
6 Kazakhstan 0.1712
7 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 0.1627
8 Republic of Korea 0.1433
9 Netherlands 0.1195
10 France 0.0914
11 Great Britain 0.0793
12 Italy 0.0653
13 South Africa 0.0615
14 United States of America 0.0574
15 Germany 0.0492
16 Romania 0.0458
17 Australia 0.0454
18 Ukraine 0.0446
19 Venezuela 0.0357
20 Russian Federation 0.0217
21 Japan 0.0157
22 People's Republic of China 0.0134
23 Brazil 0.0049
 
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Korey

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cjelly said:
Rest of the world are busy enjoying playing and watching sports rather than obsessing over pointless tables like neckbeard armchair analysts.
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davidsaurus said:
This guy right here, the reason I get a little giddy when the US lose at something.
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Dynopia said:
By the official way it's counted, no, they're not.
Why do people even debate this so their country is ahead? Just go by what the Official Olympic Comittee has it at.

http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/index.html
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Dynopia said:
I'm not acting dumb - http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/index.html

Given every station, site ect uses that method, it's as good as official.

It's a stupid argument anyway, that's how it's counted so people can bitch and moan all they like it isn't going to change anything.
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Napoleonthechimp said:
Dynopia just linked you to the official London 2012 website where it listed the medal table.
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tino

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Raist said:
Let's play the "I prefer this kind of ranking" game!

1. South korea - 0.281
2. France - 0.245
3. GB - 0.240
4. USA - 0.119
5. China - 0.025

Medals per 1 million inhabitants.
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Dude you totally forgot to divide by the GDP multiplier.
 
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