I'm just going to say it: if we can't make third place at every Olympics, then we've had a lacklustre Olympics.FOURTH? As the fuck if.
FUCK YEAH BRITAIN
we need to start aiming for top two
CHINA VERSUS AUSTRALIA CYCLING FINAL
Australia golds won by women: 10Australia golds won by men: 1
Britain beat Australia3 GOLD GAP AUSFAGS
aussies have had a crap olympics
>>271647Really? Fuck me.
>>271643lololol
>>271650We'll win the women's baskets and the men's hockey, plus one or two other things.
>>271647Holy shit china has a lot of golds.
>>271654>>FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFixed. We have the mindset, the cutting edge in sports R&D and certainly the existing infrastructure and competition pathways. If anyone can break the China-US stranglehold it's Australia.
another track gold after this race.Chris Hoy IS your God.
what are the england, scottish & wales breakdown of their medals?
When's the BMX racing on?Another chance for Amerifags and Britfags to whine about winning
>>271673Oh, I thought you were talking about the UK. Australia is only slightly less loltastic. We'll never get 2nd place. The countries that usually top the medal tally have populations and economies magnitudes larger than ours.
>>271678I'd like to see a similar breakdown of Oz and the US medals by state too. Queensland has been godly these olympics.
>>The countries that usually top the medal tally have populations and economies magnitudes larger than ours.So why are we invariably better at the Olympics than India, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Mexico, Brazil, etc?
>>271704Hey, quince farmer: no one gives a stuff about your backwards penal colony of a state.
aussie aussie aussie
>>271708I dunno. I'm just saying that we can't compete with the likes of the US, China and Russia.
Australia has a great climate for summer sports, it pisses with rain in the UK for most of the year.
>>271720WE ARE AHEAD OF THE RUSSIANS YOU SILLY DICKNIGGER
GBR might get a gold in the men's high jump.
>>271720the ching chongs and the seppos are our foremost logical competitors. aiming to beat the frances and germanys of the world is a no-ambition goal. gotta aim big to win big.
>>271727How many times have the Russians finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd at the Olympics? How many times have we?Just because the Russians are epic fail this olympics doesn't mean shit.
>>271723Totally offest by the sheer amount of $$$ you spend on your athletes compared to us.The good weather/bad weather argument might've had some truth to it back when all athletes were amateur but these days...
>>271734Ruskies aren't playing as the Soviet Union any more; their first-position days are over, even their seconds. Shit, they even get a few retroactive DQs due to doping.Olympics Goal for Australia: second place. Every time. No exceptions.
>>271712If I was from the state with the lowest avg IQ then I'd probably understand what you're on about.
>>271745Olympics Goal for Australia: second place. Every time. No exceptions.Isn't that Melbourne's official motto? lol
Now, I'm not saying this as a diss against Australia or anything, but I'd be happy as shit with 4th. How many countries are in this?You guys have Mardi Grass. That's enough.
>>271759Melbourne is a superior city to Sydney.
>>271763A non-superpower coming in the top two in a medal tally would be the biggest troll of any Olympics ever. The pure lol factor of it makes it worth any pricetag, any amount of blood, sweat, tears and media psyops campaigns.We don't even have to pull it off consistently, or even ever again. JUST ONCE is sufficient for immortality.
>>271765if you like rain, fags and wogs.
>>271763The games aren't over yet. We probably need ~15 golds to keep fourth place and I can't see us getting them.
>>271790And if you also hate dictatorial government, no infrastructure and overpriced everything
What website is that taken from?
>>271802http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/
OH LOOK A SITE TALLYING THE MEDALS PROPERLYOH LOOK A NON-AMERICAN DOMAINFUNNY HOW THEY OFTEN COINCIDE
>>271868The US is the only country which lists Total Medals first instead of Gold Medals.THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. I WONDER WHY ?????????????
>>271868You know, I would think it would make sense if they for example said that a x number of silver trumps 1 gold, but just putting them all on a pile is just bullshit. If we would just give all americans a small medal for participating, would you even bother going after anything else because OMG YOU ALREADY GOT MOST MEDALS?
>>271869Blame the Stone-cutters.
Aussies should just pray the Nazis don't take out the women's hockey.
>>Australia's Anna Meares has finished with the silver medal in the women's sprint at the Beijing Olympics.>>Meares was no match for Great Britain's Victoria Pendleton in the final, going down 2-0.http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/19/2340625.htm?site=olympics/2008THEY GOT ANOTHER FUCKING GOLDGET FUCKED
Anyway, it's fucking fantastic that we're even third.God, I remember the BBC saying that expectations for these games weren't that high and that for 2012, we should be aiming for 6/7th at best.
>>271912I'm not a vindictive shitcunt or anything, but I sincerely hope the AOC gets about 9000 billion dollars from the government to thrash you on home turf in '12.
>>271917It's all a part of good banter. I'd be saying the same thing...if we didn't get our arses kicked in Sydney.
Germany has 10 gold medalsUSA has 24 gold medalsGermany has 82 million peopleUSA has 300 million people10 divided by 82 is 0,1224 divided by 300 is 0,08WHAT NOW UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
All our real athletes are busy securing our freedom in Iraq.*SALUTES*
>>271932The UK has 15 gold medalsGermany has 11 gold medalsUK has 60 million peopleGermany has 82 million people15 divided by 60 is 0.2511 divided by 82 is 0.13WHAT NOT GERMANY?Seriously, I'm kidding. Banter and all that.
>>271932>WHAT NOW UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?I sit at my desk, read /sp/, watch the news and drink coffee.
>>271932You're doing it wrong.Australia has 11 gold medalsGermany has 10 gold medalsUSA has 24 gold medalsAustralia has 20 million peopleGermany has 82 million peopleUSA has 300 million people11 divided by 20 is 0.5510 divided by 82 is 0,1224 divided by 300 is 0,08WHAT NOW NAZIFAGS?
>>271943Ich sitze an meinem Schreibtisch, lese /sp/, schaue die Nachrichten und trinke Kaffee.
>>271951Is that some world-renowned German humour?
>>271951I don't speak Hitler.
>>271938How the fuck did I miss w and press t? Seriously, I fail English.>>271951SPRECHEN SIE AUF ENGLISCHE BITTE, MEIN DEUTSCHE IST SHEISS UND DU BIST SCHWUL.I am also shit at German.
>>271932The fucking population of the country doesn't matter, we still send the same amount of athletes to the Olympics.
>>272000The only countries to 'win' at the Olympics since WW2 are the USA and the USSR/CIS. What does that tell you.
Great Britain just won the female 400m. Australia needs some blacks for track.
>>272010That both countries have very good athletes.
>>272167I'm surprised there's been no more abo athletes to surface, especially in light of Freeman's success. We could start eating into the T&F precious by utilising those invisible australians
>>272184I loathe Cathy Freeman, maybe they feel the same.
>>272191WTF for? I've met her, she's really down to earth and easygoing. I can't imagine anyone having a problem with her.
>>272201The media. It might not be her fault but the way they carry on about her makes me rage. Fact is if she wasn't an Aboriginal people wouldn't give two shits about her -- getting her to light the torch? Pfft.
Our hurdler just won silver due to having bigger breasts than the other races, woo!
>>272227Lol that's pretty sad for that american hurdle runner. She was winning but knocked over a hurdle xD
>>272213Bandwagoning is Australia's favourite hobby.Besides, she was actually a World and Olympic champ in a decently respected race.Compare the attention she got to what Matt 'The Great White Hope' Shirvington received. His claim to fame (aside from the huge dick) was making the final at the '98 Comm games...
>>272237This is the most awkward interview ever
>>272213She's a bad person because the media exploit her? GG rationale, dumbfuckPS the nation loves Cathy because she bagged us some fucking golds; as if just because she's an ab...
>>272249She won the world championship in '97 and '99, her only Olympic accomplishment was a silver in '96. How that got her to be the torch lighter in 2000 I'll never know.Shirvington was the fastest white man in the world.
>>272282>she bagged us some fucking golds>goldsMight want to look at the history books there champ (assuming we're just talking Olympics, not shitty athletic meets).
>>272283She won the two WC's before 2000 and grabbed silver in the '96 Olympics. She was a lock to win in 2000 and she didn't let us down.I don't see why you'd have a problem with our best runner lighting the flame, considering we did the exact same thing for the '56 Olympics.
If it weren't for Phelps then Britain would have more golds than the USA by now.This is quite impressive when you consider that all we do in Britain is eat chips and watch TV.
>>272321Because we had far better qualified athletes to choose from, hell, Michael Diamond would have been a better choice. If memory serves there was a British runner dominating the 400m at the time, unfortunately she didn't run in the Olympics due to injury.
>>272338and drink tea. I'm proud of Britain. I'm not even British.
>>272227Fuck, she`s an ocker girl. Scrag bitch needs to learn better Australian english.
>>272343She was French and she wouldn't have beaten Freeman anyway.
>>272338Isn`t Phelps originally an English name.
>>272338If it weren't for Phelps then Britain would have more golds than the USA by now.facepalm.jpg
>>272338And clubbing.
>>272360Good point, his medals should be added to the British tally. Actually let's just take all the US and Aus medals and add them to the GB tally, they used to be Britfag colonies right.
>>272338apparently you can't do simple math25-8>16dumbass
>>272368You can`t have the U.S. black gold, they belong to Africa.
>>272374black goldThey don't want your oil, they want your medals.
>>272338(25 - 8) = 17
England England oi oi oi.
>>272368Don`t forget New Zealand, they too belong to England.
>>Scrag bitch needs to learn better Australian english.>>>Scrag bitch ... Australian englishSo do you, you judgemental little faggot.
>>272399and USA too. I dont care what they say. That land belong to the QUEEN.
>>272354She flew into Sydney...harassed by the Australian press...then flew back to frogland.
>>272410The Queen? Start gearing up for the next Olympics, that land belongs to KING CHARLES.
>>272403Another scrag detected.
>>272421Think she`ll be dead before 2012.
The medal tally of all countries with a British flag in their flag would surpass that of the americans.
>>272366and excessive drinking.
>>272410White House would have made a nice royal palace when visiting her subjects.
>>272437Fiji here. Our medals are yours.
>>272444And stabbin.(Scotfag)By the way you guys,... GB has 16 golds now, hahahaha Australia.
>>272444and excessive drug taking.
>>272472And glassing.
ONE EIGHT FIVE SEVENTEEN THIRTY FOUR FOURTEEN
>>272472Your gloating only makes Australia's 2012 training budget bigger (and harder)
>>272480
>>272370>apparently you can't do simple mathapparently you can't either.
>>272507
>>272490LOL
>>272338and crumpets and kippers on toast.
>>272456Technically the USA is still a British Crown Colony.
Captain Haddock drinks Fanta.
>>272545
>>272545So technically the White House is her palace...coool.
>>272543WRONG.It is Irn Bru, but for contractual reasons, he is forced to say its fanta.
>>272579TEN THOUSAND THUNDERING TYPHOONS I AM DRINKING FANTA, TINTIN.
>>272579wat
>>272579Irn Bru is for scots only.
Considering China and America are probably cheating and don`t really deserve most of their medals. That truly makes countries like Great Britain, Germany, and Australia three of the greatest Olympic athletes. It`s a shame that China and America can`t let go of their old cold war ways and compete on a level playing field like the rest of the world without cheating for once. Hopefully these cheaters will be exposed in the future with better drug testing technology. Good to see Great Britain having a proper go without the need to be greedy. Go Britain real winners of these Olympics.
>>272712
>>272712Sure is cheaters around here...