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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:24 am
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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
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That happens with atletes from every country. A lot of hockey players from the US, Russia, Czech Republic..ect come to Canada to get best training and play in the best JR leagues in the world.

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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:50 am
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Hey Word & Breath. It's probably all a horrible conspiracy by your government in league with Communists and nazis to cheat you in some incomprehensible way or other and hand power over to the Illuminati.

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The Olympics. What nonsense.

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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:03 am
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I don't see what the issue is. Surely it's the athlete's decision which nation they identify themselves by? It's totally fine by me if they choose to be proud of their lineage. Its not their fault if they aren't as proud of being American as they are African or Caribbean.

Did you ever consider that it easier for an athlete to qualify for the Olympic team of a country with a smaller population than the US, or a country with less athletes compared to the size of the population?

I qualify for dual nationality. I'm a UK citizen, I've received NHS healthcare my whole life, I got a state funded education, I eat sandwitches from Marks and Spencer, but if I were an athlete I would much rather represent the Republic of Ireland. I'd be fully entitled to do so as well.

I could also use my Irish Passport to go to university for free in Scotland, or anywhere else in the EU, but I wouldn't feel compelled to compete under their flag.

Though who really cares about medal count anyway?

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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:07 am
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Hey Word & Breath. It's probably all a horrible conspiracy by your government in league with Communists and nazis to cheat you in some incomprehensible way or other and hand power over to the Illuminati.

Or something.

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:lol: :lol: Totally Ceri!! Must be huh..... :wink: :lol:

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The Olympics. What nonsense.

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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
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I didn't know that most of the athletes were raised and/or trained in the US. That make me proud of the US. However, I'm not losing any sleep over the medal count and I absolutely understand someone wishing to represent their native country.

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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:27 am
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The Word and the Breath wrote:
The Olympic medal count is complete hogwash.

A very, very, very large percentage of medal winners who are allowed to play for other countries (nearly all of the Russians and all of the Africans and most of the South Americans and Carribean track stars) share the following characteristics:

1. Were born and raised in USA or, at a minimum, moved here by age 8 and lived here there entire lives.
2. Lived and trained their entire lives in the continental USA, eating USA-grown food, getting US health care, trained by US coaches, attending United States schools.
3. Even competed for US universities, such as the University of Alabama (the African and Carribean track stars), getting a US education (assuming they actually went to class and paid attention). (Almost every single finalist and medalist in every single track and field event attends or attended an American university and competes for such institutions as University of Alabama or USC or name any other big school--then when they win a medal it's for Nigeria or South Africa????)
4. They even count Puerto Rico separately from the US!!!! Puerto Rico is a US Territorty and Puerto Ricans have US citizenship!!!!!

And then all of a sudden come Olympic time they get to compete for their home country, which they abandoned because it could not properly support them??? Not fair.

A perfect example is the silver medal in women's tennis, Maria Sharipova, who is 100% the quinticential American girl all the time except one day a year when all of a sudden she is Russian at the Olympics. No, the US won both the gold AND silver medal at in Women's tennis. Maria is American as apple pie.

Give me a break!!! The US is far and away ahead of China in the medal count.

Tut tut. :|

I reckon this thread is here to achieve nothing but stir up negative mojo between friendly forum users.

Just thought I'd quote the OP so that when he deletes his account (for the umpteenth time) Somebizarredude isn't left responsible for this thread.

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Hey Word & Breath. It's probably all a horrible conspiracy by your government in league with Communists and nazis to cheat you in some incomprehensible way or other and hand power over to the Illuminati.

Or something.

Cheers - C

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Funny stuff, man!

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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:05 am
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Andybighair wrote:
Just thought I'd quote the OP so that when he deletes his account (for the umpteenth time) Somebizarredude isn't left responsible for this thread.

Good work. It's happened before, including to Somebizarredude. Someone finds their name at the top of a stupid thread they didn't start - not cool. People are welcome to close their accounts if they want, but I don't think anyone should be able to delete posts except Brad. It makes nonsense of lots of threads.

There's also been a deal too much post editing lately. Some of us are glad to be able to edit our posts for dumb typos ( :oops: ) but anything else is not right. If people write something on the Forum they should then be man enough to stand by it.

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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:20 am
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Lame, moving on. :roll:


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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:53 am
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TheKingofPain wrote:
The Olympics. What nonsense.


Really. Who cares which country has more athletes which threw away any chance at a normal life to compete in 10 second races?


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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:14 pm
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crap! we sure could have used the tax they charge on the medals.

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Post subject: Re: The Olympic Medal Count is Complete Hogwash (US Gipped)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:17 pm
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Toronado wrote:
TheKingofPain wrote:
The Olympics. What nonsense.


Really. Who cares which country has more athletes which threw away any chance at a normal life to compete in 10 second races?



That was my point. I'm all for people doing what they want with their lives, but I really don't care about it either. Feeling some sort of pride in the accomplishments of others that you had no hand in helping them achieve is silly to me. It's like the people who get drunk in bars watching sports and when their team wins they scream "WE WON!!!". Really? Because I don't see how them sitting on their drunk butt shoveling wings in their face and swilling down beer contributed to any part of that. Plus, the "spectacle" of it all is tacky, imo. :?

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