[quote]mldj wrote:
Ruggerlife wrote:
rainjack wrote:
Ren wrote:
neither does South Africa 
China is still beating the USA though, we should close the gap once track and field starts.
Anyone notice how the US news media ordered the countries by total medal count instead of gold medals so that USA was on top?
The majority of the Chinese gold medals have come from events that are not even real sports. Ping-Pong? Badminton? I think a person would get his ass kicked if he came around my town bragging about being a competitive badminton player.
A give them some credit, the ones for Shooting would be fine in Texas (maybe not since they use air riffles for some events).
A few “real” events:
Weightlifting 8G, 1S
Shooting 4G, 2S, 1B
Judo 3G
They also picked up all 4 golds in Sych Diving…I know you were hoping the USA would get those!
Chinese athletes had to bust their ass of for the 8 medals in weightlifting, exactly how much Phelps got, destroying the competition.
Do you think Michael Phelps’ 8 gold medal performance was greater than Usain Bolt’s 2 (maybe more, depends on the relays)?
Just a thought - if Phelps was Canadian, USA would have had 21 golds as now, and Canada would have had 11 :)[/quote]
If Michael Phelps were competing on his own, he would have been in the top 15 total medals for COUNTRIES at the time. hell, right now he’d be at #21.