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FrankM
It seems like Bob Costas always emphasizes total medals when he presents the medal count. To get an accurate picture of who is doing well I guess you should look at both gold medals and total medals. A country can have thirty total medals but only two gold and another country can have four gold but only five total medals.
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Max'sKansasCity
It is just stoneage, again, posting about ANYTHING EXCEPT things about Olympic events. I doubt he is even watching, just posting here to complain and/or act like a cop on the beat.
Maybe he has a point. Max, what is the media source of medal count? Are news agencies reporting medal counts in a biased manner? For example, I'm using USA Today website as a reference. They re very impartial.
On another subject -Funny thing today. All media outlets in US reported that
"Face- eating man speaks out" Should read "Face-eaten man speaks out."
The story was about the homeless guy that was attacked in Miami by a cannabalistic lunatic not too long ago.
Hell, they accused the attacker of being on bath salts, which were not found in his blood system.
With all the hoopla lately concerning bath salts - I went out and purchased some. I threw them in the bath tub. I didn't get a buzz at all.
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Max'sKansasCity
It is just stoneage, again, posting about ANYTHING EXCEPT things about Olympic events. I doubt he is even watching, just posting here to complain and/or act like a cop on the beat.
Maybe he has a point. Max, what is the media source of medal count? Are news agencies reporting medal counts in a biased manner? For example, I'm using USA Today website as a reference. They re very impartial.
On another subject -Funny thing today. All media outlets in US reported that
"Face- eating man speaks out" Should read "Face-eaten man speaks out."
The story was about the homeless guy that was attacked in Miami by a cannabalistic lunatic not too long ago.
Hell, they accused the attacker of being on bath salts, which were not found in his blood system.
With all the hoopla lately concerning bath salts - I went out and purchased some. I threw them in the bath tub. I didn't get a buzz at all.
Did you try to get your money back?
fun is a good thing to have.
Cheers to you too Natlanta Just trying to have a lil fun before IQuote
Natlanta
ooooh, well played mr max.
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Stoneage
It's not that, Chris. It's the order of priority. Gold counts first, not the number of medals. That is the recognized way of presenting an Olympic medalboard. It's unnecessary and confusing to have people posting two different types of medal boards (one incorrect and one correct). But since Max insists on posting the wrong one there is nothing more I can do. So, I give up!
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jpasc95
Hope Maxou won't saw off my head.
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Green Lady
By the way, there don't seem to have been many athletics world records this time around - I wonder why.
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Green Lady
By the way, there don't seem to have been many athletics world records this time around - I wonder why.
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Gazza
Closing ceremony to showcase least pleasant aspects of Britain
07-08-12
IN a bid to ensure international visitors don’t outstay their welcome, the Olympics closing ceremony will feature the fighting and vomiting aspects of the UK.
This man will ruin spectators' shoes
The epic event will feature a specially-constructed 23-storey Wetherspoons and 10,000 drunkards drumming along to Oops Upside Your Head before the largest synchronised vomit in history.
Volunteers will drink four litres of value-range cola and eat 2lb of asparagus on the day of the ceremony to ensure all the seats in the stadium are coated in a pungent layer of urine, illustrating the traditional use of the UK’s public places.
All other Olympic volunteers have been instructed to mug the spectators as they leave the stadium, with each mugging having a personally-tailored racial epithet based on the ticket-holder’s booking information.
The climax of the ceremony will be the dousing of the Olympic flame by Wayne Hayes, a taxi driver from Carlisle, who will light his roll-up on the flame, complain about his last gas bill, extinguish it and tell the remainder of the crowd to fúck off home.
There will also be an interactive element to proceedings as ‘townie’ pissheads in shiny short-sleeved shirts blunder through the audience, deliberately bashing into people in the hope of starting a ruckus.
Artistic director Danny Boyle said: “The powers-that-be are concerned that the overall success and good vibes during the games may have given tourists an unrealistically positive impression of the country.
“While I’m intrigued by the creative challenge of a bleak and nihilistic closing event, I baulked at their suggestion of filling the stadium with West Ham fans.
“However they insisted on having One Direction, even though I thought that was too depressing.”
[www.thedailymash.co.uk]
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jpasc95
and here is the real and only one and undisputed results board !
hope Maxou won't saw off my head.
Very disappointing French delegation. We totally missed the games especially in fencing and equestrian. 0 medal. Can't do worse.
In 2008, we won 40 medals. This year it will be less.
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Stoneage
He won't saw off your head, jpasc95. But he will call you: a bitch, a cop on the beat and a whiner. So I gave in and accepted the fact that it is Bob Costas and Yahoo.com who calls the shots.
The IOC has nothing to do with it. Now, deal with it!
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treaclefingers
Isn't that what we really really want?