RaySpencer
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Did we ever get the split times for the men's 4x100? I want to see how close De Grasse was to Bolt. It looked like he was keeping pace, but it's hard to tell when he started so much later.
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1976 Montreal
1984 Los Angeles
1988 Seoul
Just saying. I always side eye when NBC and announcers try and add the success in 84 with what others are doing now or since. If the Soviet Union and East Germany competed in 84, they would've destroyed the US and also a lot of success stories like Mary Lou Retton would probably not have occurred and someone like Carl Lewis would definitely have had his work cut out for him, instead he went unopposed in almost all of his events.
Even after the USSR breakup, the unified former Soviet team still took the top medal count in 92 Barcelona.
perfectchaos007
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Wow East Germany and West Germany were stronger as separate countries. No wonder US president Reagan wanted them to break up.
theprodigy
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He never said 1984 was comparable to a regular Olympics, he said it was closer to one than 1980.
I noticed you skipped posting the 1980 medal table.
They are both gigantic outliers, but basically everything from 76-88 are huge outliers on the East Germany/Soviet Union side because of all the doping they were doing.
Look at the medals from 64/68, and even 72 when the doping was starting up, and compare it to the next 2 decades. All of those medals came straight out of the bottle.
I'd say 90% of that was the doping considering their numbers since then.
Early handoff on the first or second leg.
Do we know if the US is protesting it/going to protest?
I didn't want to clutter too much and because everyone pretty much disregards the 80 olympics results but tries to give legitimacy to the 84 games. Yeah the boycott wasn't as large but you literally had the best countries at the games absent, along with world record holders, world champions, olympic champions. Point was, that pretty much everything from 80 and 84 shouldn't really count or be heavily asterisked as both had the best athletes and countries not compete.
Pretty much. They were only like 18 million strong. East Germany was pretty much what you see with German potential today but with a ridiculously controlled government program and some of the best doping in the world along with greater nationalism. The unification also hurt them because West Germany pretty much controlled politics and sport after and weren't as obsessed nationally about sport and a lot of coaches were hired to help other teams. Look at the decline of Germany from Barcelona in 1992 unified they were 3rd with stringent doping checked and by Sydney in 2000 were down to 5 and barely challenged at the top level. For such a rich country, they are woefully underfunded in terms of sport outside of soccer.
Squirrel Killer
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Well, yeah of course they're going to talk about the success in '84. It happened. Even if the most competitive countries decided to stay home. Most time when I hear reporters discuss the '84 Olympics, they add a caveat mentioning the Soviet Bloc's boycott.
But remember you said,
Well, there are reasons for that. The '80 games were boycotted by 65 nations. The '84 games were only boycotted by 14. There were more than 1,500 more athletes in '84 than in '80 despite the number of events being roughly the same. In addition, despite the boycott, the '84 games had the most nations participating up to that time (next most were '72 with 121 and '68 had 112) and even compared well to the number participating in '88 (159) and '92 (169.)
east germans were doped up like no others
When was that a rule? My kids are half Japanese and currently have both British and Japanese passports. The only restriction is have to choose Japanese or British nationality by the time they're about 20. Britain allows dual nationality but Japan doesn't
What's this bullshit?
All these racist morons on twitter saying the only reason Japan won was because they had a half Jamaican half Japanese runner on the team and ignoring that he ran the second slowest leg for them on the team. As if it just cannot be possible for non-white or non-black sprinters to compete. I mean almost every single mention is about their anchor ignoring that two other Japanese sprinters ran their legs faster.
chicko1983
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they just showed the womens modern pentathlon on Australian tv because an Aussie won gold.
What a great event that is. The last event is a 4 x 800m run with 4 shooting stations where you have to hit 5 targets before moving on.
The last event starts as a handicapped start and the Aussie was 50 seconds behind the leader when she started.
So she made up about a minute on the run, coming from seventh to win our first ever medal in it.
Its always fun watching these sports you hear of but never see.
What a great event that is. The last event is a 4 x 800m run with 4 shooting stations where you have to hit 5 targets before moving on.
The last event starts as a handicapped start and the Aussie was 50 seconds behind the leader when she started.
So she made up about a minute on the run, coming from seventh to win our first ever medal in it.
Its always fun watching these sports you hear of but never see.
Is this coming from the Japanese media?
bobnowhere
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While her run was great, she made crazy time in the shooting, hardly missed. The Polish girl at one point missed 7 or 8 in a row.
SolidSnakex
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Why would they be saying that? It's coming from the west.
chicko1983
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yeah, they said she was 20 targets from 21 shots, no wonder she made up massive time.
Would love to try that sport, pentathlon.
Based upon the events needed to master to be a good officer in the army. haha, awesome.
The key ingredient is salt
Same with Britain's from the earlier race.
CelticKnight
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Which is odd as at the beginning of the athletics a few countries/athletes got their DQ's overturned and were reinstated. Not sure why the judges have all of a sudden decided to enforce the rules so strictly.
Panda In Space
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Time for Lin Dan.
I got strong "love at first sight" vibes when I first saw her last night lol. Glad she got a medal.
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So I've just woken up and I still can't believe Muhammad didn't get that gold in Taekwondo, it hurts so muuuuuch.
Also reinstate the 4x400 men, wtf.
Peter Ian Staker
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CelticKnight
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Another GB Gold for the pile... Kayak single 200m.
Captain Smirk
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Liam Heath yes! That gold muscle!
to accept defeat and settle for 4th.
silver.tongue
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Another Brazil x Germany about to happen...
silver.tongue
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Germany won. Lets hope we can tie things up later today.
Today in salty tweets.
One of the funnier side of Twitter are all those old men who reply to such tweets. I bet that dude tapped send and though to himself "I showed'em". Pathetic.
Yes! Loving this gold run for GB, Mo, Joyce, Adams (off the top of my head) next hopefully!!
http://globalnews.ca/news/2893796/r...keeps-medal-as-u-s-loses-appeal/?sf33900094=1
they just lost the appeal
Yeah it's odd that. The commentators were even calling him the favourite. The BBC need to up their game. The data analysts that the Beeb are using to see if we'll best China to second place didn't mention him as a medal contender either.
We would need to run the table to do that, so it's very unlikely but possible. Doesn't really matter though - GB has done far better than anyone expected at these games, across an incredibly wide variety of events.
JAWOHL!
Don't forget we have two at-least-silver guaranteed, which means two more medals beyond that would tie London. Gold is tougher, but by no means out of reach.
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