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Girl power carries US back to top of medal table


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sivanantham
Let us forget cricket and corruption
by sivanantham on Aug 14, 2012 07:41 AM

Then we are champion in everything.
Since many medals are from swimming and track and field events, since we must focus on these games. Clever Americans and Europeans use Africans for getting many medals from track and field events. Without Africans, Americans will lose nearly 30-40 medals at least.
As far as India is concern, both corrupt politicians and most of the people are the main reasons for suppressing our development.
Before scientific era, we were no. 1 in everything. After the arabs and british looted many things from us, we went behind. After Independence, we ourselves looting each other.
Indians are egoist as individuals but not as a society or a group. We criticize ourselves without doing anything.
First let us stopping criticizing and we will do our best.
Then we are no. 1 in everything.


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sivanantham
Let us forget cricket first
by sivanantham on Aug 14, 2012 07:39 AM

Since many medals are from swimming and track and field events, since we must focus on these games. Clever Americans and Europeans use Africans for getting many medals from track and field events. Without Africans, Americans will lose nearly 30-40 medals at least.
As far as India is concern, both corrupt politicians and most of the people are the main reasons for suppressing our development.
Before scientific era, we were no. 1 in everything. After the arabs and british looted many things from us, we went behind. After Independence, we ourselves looting each other.
Indians are egoist as individuals but not as a society or a group. We criticize ourselves without doing anything.
First let us stopping criticizing and we will do our best.
Then we are no. 1 in everything.


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Vishnu Sharma
Free Market approach is the best.
by Vishnu Sharma on Aug 14, 2012 03:54 AM

The United States, applies a thoroughly free-market approach to athletics. The U.S. Olympic Committee is a non-profit organization that receives no funding from the U.S. government. Training of athletes is decentralized, occurring at universities strewn throughout the country and at corporate facilities such as the Nike Oregon Project. Independent leagues, operating without government support or sanction, exist in every state — the kind of leagues that are prohibited in China. Children — or, more realistically, their parents — pay to participate in these leagues. Talent develops bottom-up, as those with better athletic promise progress to more advanced leagues and ultimately find their way onto the Olympic team.

This does not mean the U.S. government provides no funding or support to athletics. Public schools and universities receive grants for their athletic programs, and regulations such as Title IX ensure that access to athletic programs is not restricted on the basis of race or gender. And U.S. officials, at the highest levels of government, make sure to imbue athletes with a sense of patriotism, with White House invitations or presidential phone calls to reward exceptional performances. But by and large, the government’s role has simply been to get out of the way and let the private sector and civil society do what they do best.

And so, America’s victory over China in this year’s Olympics really represents the enduring strength

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Shobhit Acharya
WOW
by Shobhit Acharya on Aug 14, 2012 02:33 AM

So many whiners below !!! Its ok ... india is not that great in sports. et over it.

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madanmohan siddhanthi
WHEN WILL WE
by madanmohan siddhanthi on Aug 13, 2012 12:02 PM

Get some one like Scott Blackmun is it asking too much when we have Kalmadi ,Raja ,Dixit , Vilas Rao moving about like kings what a shame to a nation.

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prajyoth pradeep
CHINA WON EVERYTHING ON ITS OWN
by prajyoth pradeep on Aug 13, 2012 11:52 AM  | Hide replies

The Olympics started in Ancient Greece.. Athens. It is a ceremony which consisted of games set up by European countries also followed now in the American west. It consists MOSTLY games in which western countries have been participating from a long time and are traditionally good at. Swimming consists of the maximum no.of medals. Other events have few medals. In Table Tennis, Hockey, Badminton, wrestling you have to win tournaments that is many matches to win a single medal.
Imagine if in track & field they handed out a medal in the 100m for running, running backward, hopping and skipping. That’s essentially what happens in swimming.
Maybe every sport should start handing out medals like this; right now the Olympics give out about 300 something medals; why not make it 1,000? Incidentally, of those 302 medals, swimming gives out 96: Almost a third!
SEE its all made to suit these countries.
PLUS the African Americans become Americans once in four years... when they win medals for America. Even countries like Netherlands, Denmark etc.. you have players of African origin for track and field and Chinese players for badminton and Table tennis.
SO just imagine in a sporting event full of sports traditionally followed by western countries and which have different medal policies. China being the leader.. Also small but advanced countries like South Korea and Japan coming in 5th or 6h places!

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Bhajirao Peshwa
Re: CHINA WON EVERYTHING ON ITS OWN
by Bhajirao Peshwa on Aug 13, 2012 07:25 PM
Your stats and observation is completely wrong.
Olympics in all has 304 gold medals and out of that Swimming has 34 and Atheletics including high Jump and all has 47. The 96 which you are saying is including silver, and bronze and that if we include then the total count of medal in olympics goes upto 950 as wrestling and boxing has two broze for each category.
Infact every event has sufficient Medals inclusing boxing and wrestling. Even in Swimming you have to be best and qualify for final, it is not like there is direct final.
Badminton, Hockey, and many more are not western games. Please read and go through all games before making analysis.
Even India has a tradition of rowing, cycling, Swimming, running and all that. This are common across world.

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prajyoth pradeep
Re: CHINA WON EVERYTHING ON ITS OWN
by prajyoth pradeep on Aug 13, 2012 11:52 AM
Also China's medal haul is more all round. It has won medals in Table Tennis, Badminton, Diving, Weightlifting. Where as for the US the major medals came only from Swimming and now track and field from African Americans who become Americans only once in four years.... when they get Olympics medals for their country.


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Face Dude
Why all american runners ..
by Face Dude on Aug 13, 2012 11:11 AM  | Hide replies

are blacks? and all swimmers are non blacks?

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sivanantham
Re: Why all american runners ..
by sivanantham on Aug 14, 2012 07:31 AM
Very good question.


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Rajat
Amercan are cheaters.........................
by Rajat on Aug 13, 2012 11:03 AM  | Hide replies

when some body other than this amerikan & westerns wolf won gold they say they r dope........ or if they don't proof the doping, they buy the player..look at their performance 70% are black have won by the gold

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Rajat
Re: Amercan are cheaters.........................
by Rajat on Aug 13, 2012 11:04 AM
and here the amerikan chamcas like redif.....started to bark

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Dude
Re: Re: Amercan are cheaters.........................
by Dude on Aug 13, 2012 11:13 AM
They happy to be called as Americans then why r u crying???

Ok!! atleast China & Russia r not cheaters Fine!!!

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BRUNO MONTEIRO
Re: Re: Re: Amercan are cheaters.........................
by BRUNO MONTEIRO on Aug 13, 2012 11:22 AM
yes 30% of the americans who have won gold are imported from africa.. China and Russia and some other countries win gold with their own people..

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BRUNO MONTEIRO
Re: Re: Re: Re: Amercan are cheaters.........................
by BRUNO MONTEIRO on Aug 13, 2012 11:24 AM
this 30% gold from america is removed then america will stand 4th or 5th in the world..

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sivanantham
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Amercan are cheaters.........................
by sivanantham on Aug 14, 2012 07:33 AM
Well said Rajat. U are certainly correct.
Since many medals are from swimming and track and field events, since we must focus on these games. Clever Americans and Europeans use Africans for getting many medals from track and field events. Without Africans, Americans will lose nearly 30-40 medals at least.
As far as India is concern, both corrupt politicians and most of the people are the main reasons for suppressing our development.
Before scientific era, we were no. 1 in everything. After the arabs and british looted many things from us, we went behind. After Independence, we ourselves looting each other.
Indians are egoist as individuals but not as a society or a group. We criticize ourselves without doing anything.
First let us stopping criticizing and we will do our best.
Then we are no. 1 in everything.


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