Summer Olympics 2021
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Fadaar
That guy
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Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
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It seems like that's only a tiny handful and most of the medal winners are proud Americans honored to represent their country.
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Hosix
All labs matter!
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As a fan of track and field. Check out the high school record for shot, 77 feet! That’s by Michael Carter.
Yes football fans…the same guy who played nose tackle in the NFL.
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Hosix
All labs matter!
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So to counter this….how about all the medals won by athletes in other countries who train in the US?
Fuck off. Train in your own shit hole country.
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Ameraves
New title pending...
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Curious about the total medal count though. How many athletes do we have entered versus say China and ROC?
Don't we all?
I like this idea. To compete for a country in the Olympics, you must have spent at least 51% of your time in that country over the past 4 years. Athletic performance is related to the country where they trained, not where they were born.
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Lanx
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amount of competitors
America
United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia
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chyna
China at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia
tldr
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you can count each event for participation but no tally as of yet
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Lanx
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olympics is fucked up in how they can be represented
remember this bitch?
'Worst Olympian ever': how a young skier triumphed over trolls
Elizabeth Swaney has run for governor, trained in music, and auditioned as a pro cheerleader. But it was her befuddling appearance in the Winter Olympics that made headlines
american and she couldn't make it on the american team, cuz she is basically a "filthy casual" so she tried to make the venezula team, cuz of her mother birthplace. SOMEHOW she failed that but was able to use the birthplace of her grandparents and get on the hungarian team.
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LiquidDeath
Magnus Deadlift the Fucktiger
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The real question is: why do a large number of these athletes live and train exclusively in the US then compete under their home country flag as if any part of their performance can be attributed to that country.
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Because then none of the events would have competitors from more than a half dozen countries. USA/PRC/AU/GB/RU plus 2-3 wildcards where the country happens to specialize. You'd probably get half the ad revenue.
Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Was that the guy who retook the lead in the last 10 seconds of the match?
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popsicledeath
Potato del Grande
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The Olympics were better when nationality was a better predictor of ethnicity. Was neat when you'd occasionally have an Asian American ice skater or black British runner. But now, having our or France's track team be 90% black.... meh. Should just make them racial/ethnic Olympics these days to get back into the original spirit of the games. Let's see whose genetics reign supreme.
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Hoss
Make America's Team Great Again
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LoL. I did shot and discus in HS. I could usually throw a discus further than that. I like watching olympic shot put because I see throws of like 15 and 16 and I'm like, pshh, I could throw the motherfucker 20 feet, where's my medal?
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Chukzombi
Millie's Staff Member
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i think that goes both ways, a lot of our own athletes train in foreign locations with higher altitudes so when they adjust their breathing to it, they have an edge when they come back to a lower altitude
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Yup, his already legendary career just got more... Bigger. 21 and dominant on the world stage.
popsicledeath
Potato del Grande
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Not sure if that many of our athletes do that since Colorado Springs has an Olympic training center for high elevation.
Unless you're talking about training in space or something.
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Hosix
All labs matter!
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So that is not the same thing. You train at altitude with a goal of a specified race/day. That’s it.
You have sprinters from all over the world that train here. I am sure other sports do as well. But I am more familiar with the track aspect.
At any give time go to IMG in Florida during the day. You will see world class sprinters training from Australia, France, Canada and so on.
Then again…Rocky training in Russia. So you have that point.
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