ColossalLazy
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China is gold medal. Congrats, played great and deserved it.
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2016 Summer Olympics |OT2| August 5th - August 21st
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perfectchaos007
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Congrats to China!
CuthbertAllgoodz
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Whatever! Good job China.
perfectchaos007
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China within just 1 gold of team GB. China currently has more overall medals than GB which will only come into play if there's a tie for numbers of golds.
China is 1 country. 8)
Don't most outlets just do 5-3-1 for the point total and rank by that?
I thought GB has more silver so even if China need one more gold than GB.
In the US they go by totals, at least NBC does.
The IOC has not released any official ranking format, so it's all up to however anyone wants to do it really.
Ghostmaster
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Great game by China. So is the men's basketball final the biggest event tomorrow, it seems like the athletics only have the men's marathon left?
perfectchaos007
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Yeah I guess you can do it like that.
6 bronzes will never be better than a gold
total gold > total silver > total bronze > total
none of this points stuff
Another great volleyball match. It looked like Serbia was cruising when they took the first set, but Lang Ping's adjustments have been on point all tournament, and it worked again. Having the very best player in the whole competition helped a lot as well. How many players did Zhu Ting kill again?
I'd argue it shows you sent a stronger cohort if you medal in six events than just win one.
I don't understand why NBC just count medals than the number of golds then silvers if a draw. Isn't like the US needs help to be at no 1. BBC has always gone by that system.
It's pretty much the only one aside from wrestling. No track or field - stadium is put out of its misery now.
The pinkest of pink elephants.
Well, not quite, she won gold in the 4x200 freestyle because she competed in the heats.
look up 2008 medal table, China cleaned some clocks in gold medal count that year.
SilentRacoon
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Very entertaining game, but China clearly outpaced the Serbian team, so congrats on the Gold.
SmartWaffles
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Lang Ping, GOAT tier as a player, oversea success in multiple nations, then returns home to win full grand slam as a coach, what a legend.
NBC has sorted by total medal count for decades, so it's not really a change. Besides, back in the '70s and '80s, the Americans usually ran behind East Germany and the Soviet Union, so it wouldn't make any sense.
Boo this table
If team USA doesn't fuck it up tomorrow in Basketball I think we'll end up 2 golds short from 2012, but 14 more in the total.
AmuroChan
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If team USA doesn't fuck it up tomorrow in Basketball, I think we'll end up 2 golds short from 2012, but 14 more in the total.
USA still has Claressa Shields in the gold medal match in boxing. They also have athletes in Mountain Bike and Wrestling that can get gold tomorrow.
Alex_Mexico
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During the live final soccer game NBC chose to instead broadcast the water polo gold medal match between Croatia and Serbia. Why would they choose that over Brazil vs Germany. I don't care what Americans say about soccer but water polo is not more popular than this sport.
Now NBC chooses to broadcast the penalty shootout.
Now NBC chooses to broadcast the penalty shootout.
krackerjack
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I kinda just want to give Tom Daley and Steele Johnson a hug. I feel awful for those guys!
They were showing it live on NBC Sports Network.
They have done that for every single Basketball and Football game.
edit: They did the same with Tennis on Bravo and Golf on The Golf Channel.
AmuroChan
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It was definitely broadcast on one of the NBC channels. I was at a restaurant and the game was live on TV.
Why are people saying Chemlio was DQ'd because of stepping out of bounds? The supposed infraction was over contact with another athlete wasn't it?
Anyway, glad to see he won his appeal and got his silver back. He ran a great, smart race with Mo. NBC ripping his heart out on live tv was pointlessly cruel.
Anyway, glad to see he won his appeal and got his silver back. He ran a great, smart race with Mo. NBC ripping his heart out on live tv was pointlessly cruel.
Tallshortman
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If team USA doesn't fuck it up tomorrow in Basketball, I think we'll end up 2 golds short from 2012, but 14 more in the total.
There's 2 likely, and 1 other with a good chance of gold tomorrow so I can see us matching 2012 golds.
Etrian Oddity
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I know OLD'D, but I just watched the Brazil-Germany gold medal match on NBC (they forwarded to the end of regulation). Didn't have the results spoiled beforehand.
Holy fucking shit.
Watching that entire thing go down and the following medal ceremony left me with chills. Amazing.
I always get kinda sad when it's time for the Olympics to end.
Holy fucking shit.
Watching that entire thing go down and the following medal ceremony left me with chills. Amazing.
I always get kinda sad when it's time for the Olympics to end.
What happen?
lol the only thing about this is, I would like you to go tell a bronze medalist to their face that their medal doesn't mean shit and see what they do.
perfectchaos007
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Can someone explain to me why There's generally 2 bronze medals awarded in almost all the fighting sports (Boxing, Taikwando etc )
Tomorrow is the final ceremony correct?
I think the one thing I always loved from the olympics surprisingly enough is the closing montage of the country they were in. Gives you a few mins to see the landscape and kinda rethink the past monthish of sports and everything that happened. then NBC does the whole storyline portion of it that shows highlights and everybody crying and shit.
anyway the final credits montage of the country is always my favorite from the games
I think the one thing I always loved from the olympics surprisingly enough is the closing montage of the country they were in. Gives you a few mins to see the landscape and kinda rethink the past monthish of sports and everything that happened. then NBC does the whole storyline portion of it that shows highlights and everybody crying and shit.
anyway the final credits montage of the country is always my favorite from the games
Etrian Oddity
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NBC did that tonight, too. I love it because I get to see a lot of moments -- like the two women racers who collided with each other and helped each other to the finish line -- that I just can't catch.
Alex_Mexico
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I should've been more precise. I meant regular over the air NBC. I know the game was live on cable on NBCSN. I'm just puzzled why NBC chose Waterpolo instead.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-two-bronze-medals-given-in-Olympic-judo-competitions
I giving you the link because I read it some time a go and still don't understand why they do this
Despite the reasons showed on this text, I still can't see why they couldn't make the two semi final losers fight against each other
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