Not particularly because of Team GB’s result, but looking at that table it would make more sense to order it by total points, with gold=3, silver=2, bronze=1, or something like that. Seems off that having one extra gold can put a country ahead of another with double the number of medals overall.
Edit: OK, OK, holes your hosses with the downvotes, just saying that silvers and bronzes are worth something, too.
Got 22 golds in Japan so a bit of a let down.
A decent number of total medals and a bunch won by younger competitor across loads of sports, who could reasonably be in contention for gold for the next couple of Olympic cycles. I’d argue this is more impressive than when the same few members of the team would win a bunch of gold on boats, bikes and horses but little else.
Not even top 5
Not too shabby.
I choose to count if it’s most golds or most medals to find the most favourable result.
I remember the 80s and we’d get a pretty meagre haul even though we might set a world record along the way. Today by comparison is awesome and I love being able to be so proud of Team GB and seeing the athletes so ecstatic. It’s lovely and a reminder that behind the news and us usually being a bit down on ourselves, they’re all there putting in the graft so they can beat the world with a Team GB logo on their outfits!
They really should ‘weight’ the medals into a proper table. We’ve got nearly double the dutch, but finished below them.
That said I don’t think I remember seeing Japan get a medal! Maybe one in the Judo that I recall.
Well done are boys
One more than the French, which is important. Just ignore the colour of the medals.
Go team eukaryotes!!
Seeing as I’ve been told off for making the same point to many people now especially over on /Unitedkingdom, I will say this: winning Olympic medals is really fucking hard. We’ve done well and are still reaching the level that would ordinarily be expected of us for a country of our size etc.
Third in overall medals, which is quite apt given our big stash of bronzes!
GB+NI is the only country to have won a gold medal at every single ‘summer’ Olympics!
Super proud! Can’t wait for the next!
We were proper allergic to gold in the 2nd week
Bizarre how it went, the yanks were truly clutch so often
Take that, Canada.
With the US system based on total medals, we’re actually third!
15 golds is a massive result from the Netherlands, fair play. Bit of a bummer finishing behind both France and Australia, but those Aussie swimmers were something else.Â
24th per capita. I think that’s great. http://medalspercapita.com/#medals-per-capita:2024
Solid job indeed. A lot of these bronze and silver medals could easily turn into gold at the next games
Third by total medals
I was a bit disappointed by the track cycling, not because we didn’t win many golds, you can’t be dominant forever and the mens team pursuit literally gave their all, but because in the endurance events like the madison and points race in the omnium the British riders literally did nothing. They sat in the pack and rode it like it’s a multi stage grand tour.
Portugal won the gold in the madison by attacking and taking a lap (as well as a couple of sprints) and Italy only came 2nd because they crashed towards the end but they were in a medal position because they attacked as well.
Really irritating me that the order of countries is not in total medal count, rather golds, but I get it.
We’ve done so well post 2008 (4th, 3rd, 2nd, 4th) that I know some people will be disappointed with 7th but it’s worth pointing out our monumental success is a relatively recent phenomenon since the disaster of coming 36th in Atlanta. Excluding post 2008 7th is our best result since 1924! And our medal haul is bigger than Tokyo! We have a lot to celebrate.Â
A lot of countries have started to introduce their own Olympic strategies (Australia, France, Germany) resulting in it becoming more competitive than ever hence why we were getting less gold and more bronze. But the fact we’re still super competitive 3 Olympics after hosting is unprecedented outside the major sporting superpowers and their large populations (china, USA, USSR back in the day).Â
Agreed
Gold is what counts, so France beat us.
You know, seems to me the american way of doing the table was right after all!!
Massively proud of the efforts. There were loads of nearlys and missed chances too. Just off the top I can think of Molly Caudery missing pole vault, Emma Wilson in the windsurfing, Beth Schriever in the BMX racing, and Amber Rutter in the shooting. All heartbreaking gold chances, particularly when a dodgy format or bad judgement makes you miss out.
‘There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.’ – Sir Michael Caine
under Netherlands 🙂
Fewest gold medals in four or five Olympics isn’t it?
good show if i do say so myself, good show indeed.
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Not particularly because of Team GB’s result, but looking at that table it would make more sense to order it by total points, with gold=3, silver=2, bronze=1, or something like that. Seems off that having one extra gold can put a country ahead of another with double the number of medals overall.
Edit: OK, OK, holes your hosses with the downvotes, just saying that silvers and bronzes are worth something, too.
Got 22 golds in Japan so a bit of a let down.
A decent number of total medals and a bunch won by younger competitor across loads of sports, who could reasonably be in contention for gold for the next couple of Olympic cycles. I’d argue this is more impressive than when the same few members of the team would win a bunch of gold on boats, bikes and horses but little else.
Not even top 5
Not too shabby.
I choose to count if it’s most golds or most medals to find the most favourable result.
I remember the 80s and we’d get a pretty meagre haul even though we might set a world record along the way. Today by comparison is awesome and I love being able to be so proud of Team GB and seeing the athletes so ecstatic. It’s lovely and a reminder that behind the news and us usually being a bit down on ourselves, they’re all there putting in the graft so they can beat the world with a Team GB logo on their outfits!
They really should ‘weight’ the medals into a proper table. We’ve got nearly double the dutch, but finished below them.
That said I don’t think I remember seeing Japan get a medal! Maybe one in the Judo that I recall.
Well done are boys
One more than the French, which is important. Just ignore the colour of the medals.
Go team eukaryotes!!
Seeing as I’ve been told off for making the same point to many people now especially over on /Unitedkingdom, I will say this: winning Olympic medals is really fucking hard. We’ve done well and are still reaching the level that would ordinarily be expected of us for a country of our size etc.
Third in overall medals, which is quite apt given our big stash of bronzes!
GB+NI is the only country to have won a gold medal at every single ‘summer’ Olympics!
Super proud! Can’t wait for the next!
We were proper allergic to gold in the 2nd week
Bizarre how it went, the yanks were truly clutch so often
Take that, Canada.
With the US system based on total medals, we’re actually third!
15 golds is a massive result from the Netherlands, fair play. Bit of a bummer finishing behind both France and Australia, but those Aussie swimmers were something else.Â
24th per capita. I think that’s great. http://medalspercapita.com/#medals-per-capita:2024
Solid job indeed. A lot of these bronze and silver medals could easily turn into gold at the next games
Third by total medals
I was a bit disappointed by the track cycling, not because we didn’t win many golds, you can’t be dominant forever and the mens team pursuit literally gave their all, but because in the endurance events like the madison and points race in the omnium the British riders literally did nothing. They sat in the pack and rode it like it’s a multi stage grand tour.
Portugal won the gold in the madison by attacking and taking a lap (as well as a couple of sprints) and Italy only came 2nd because they crashed towards the end but they were in a medal position because they attacked as well.
Really irritating me that the order of countries is not in total medal count, rather golds, but I get it.
We’ve done so well post 2008 (4th, 3rd, 2nd, 4th) that I know some people will be disappointed with 7th but it’s worth pointing out our monumental success is a relatively recent phenomenon since the disaster of coming 36th in Atlanta. Excluding post 2008 7th is our best result since 1924! And our medal haul is bigger than Tokyo! We have a lot to celebrate.Â
A lot of countries have started to introduce their own Olympic strategies (Australia, France, Germany) resulting in it becoming more competitive than ever hence why we were getting less gold and more bronze. But the fact we’re still super competitive 3 Olympics after hosting is unprecedented outside the major sporting superpowers and their large populations (china, USA, USSR back in the day).Â
Agreed
Gold is what counts, so France beat us.
You know, seems to me the american way of doing the table was right after all!!
Massively proud of the efforts. There were loads of nearlys and missed chances too. Just off the top I can think of Molly Caudery missing pole vault, Emma Wilson in the windsurfing, Beth Schriever in the BMX racing, and Amber Rutter in the shooting. All heartbreaking gold chances, particularly when a dodgy format or bad judgement makes you miss out.
‘There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.’ – Sir Michael Caine
under Netherlands 🙂
Fewest gold medals in four or five Olympics isn’t it?
good show if i do say so myself, good show indeed.
YOU BLEW IT!