No, I don't consider those sports. Weightlifting is a sport? Hey, let's go play weightlifting. Badminton is what people play at family reunions. If shooting is a sport then where's darts? Takes the same kind of concentration. Diving is a sport where gravity does all the work, nice. Judo, have you ever even watched Judo? Let's spend 5 minutes standing face to face, grabbing each other by the collar until one of us can flip the other one over on his ass. Woweee... sports. Some of you seem to think that anything that requires physical activity and concentration is a sport. Hell, bowling is more of a sport than some of this stuff and everyone knows bowling isn't a sport. Where's foosball, air hockey, and skiball? They're as much sports as these in the Olympics. I want my shot at the air hockey gold medal, dammit.
Yeah, but it is still meaningless to the majority of the countries that participate. The NBA analogy is a poor one because everybody in the league has some shot of getting into the playoffs and winning the championship. Right now there are only 5 countries with more gold medals than Michael Phelps. Every country that participates in the Olympics does not have a shot to win that many golds let alone 100 medals of any caliber overall so medal counts and point system would be pointless if every country does not have a fair chance. Not every country will develop into serious medal contenders in every event either so not every country is going to eventually care.
they should make FPS games and WOW into Olympic sports - Korea, China, would really send the US a wakeup call I think.
You can downplay everything. Let's spend 10 seconds to see a few guys running? A toddler can run, how is that sports? How's swimming sports, since everyone can somewhat do it since childhood? What's your definition of sports? Difficulty, competitiveness, history, or global participation, OR something as simple as what YOU want to see?
Don't know if anyone else saw this.. but there was some bad blood goin on between the USA and China in baseball. The Chinese team had already hit 4 USA batters when a USA player ran over the Chinese catcher.. who was standing right on the baseline attempting to catch and tag the player out. The USA player pummeled the Chinese catcher to make it 9-0. The Chinese manager came out and argued and was really mad.. but it's really the Chinese catcher's fault for standing on the baseline when he didn't really have a shot at the tag. Right after that.. the Chinese pitcher hit top prospect LaPorta in the HEAD!!! That made it 5 USA players beamed. The Chinese pitcher and manager were tossed. The next half-inning, a Chinese player hit a solo HR, which happened to be China's first HR for the whole olympics. The Chinese player ran around the player with one fist in the air, including a big fist pump around 3rd, and then proceeded to stomp on home plate to make it 9-1. I F'in hate those crybabies from China.
lol, they happen to be the only people that play baseball in China. why did they even bother with a team. baseball is a sport that will never take off in China.
let's see, swimming only requires someone get from one point to another in water faster. what's so fun about that? track and field, meh, a bunch of people doing stuff little kids can do, just faster. what's the big deal. basketball? you are just tossing a ball in a basket. wow, what a sport! baseball? i can smack that ball too. get that **** out of the olympics. soccer? you are just freaking kicking a ball running around. wrestling? two guys spend 5 minutes feeling each other, ya sure, that's YOUR sport. ya, by your definition, there are no sports in the world.
I got a question. When a country wins a team sport, each of players gets a medal right? Does every medal count towards that country's medal count?
just 1. if count every player, then Argentina would have gotten 12 gold for basketball, 15? gold for soccer last time. that's freaking almost 30 gold for 2 sports.
Well that's what I always thought. But when I checked nbcolympics.com they seemed to count each medal the swimmers got for the relays. Is it the same with the relays as it is with the team sports or am I missing something?
it should count as 1 for relays. it probably messed up the count. or the swimmers participated in other relays.
Cool. Thanks man. On a side note though, I find silly that the US websites keep using total medals to rank the medal count. I thought it was understood that it's ranked by gold then silver then bronze.
I am wondering how much more Bela is going to whine tonight. Spoiler China won two gold , a silver and a bronze earlier and would be on NBA tonight.
I read that the Luikin got screwed over. She and that chinese girl had the exact same score but the judges gave the gold to China.
