Summer Tokyo 2021 Day 12 Thread

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Judging by the population of the counties around us in the medal tally, we’d have to have one of the highest elite athlete to commoner ratios in the world
 
kozi said:
Judging by the population of the counties around us in the medal tally, we’d have to have one of the highest elite athlete to commoner ratios in the world
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10th, although most ahead of us by that metric are much smaller countries with 3 or 4 'elite' athletes who win gold

Olympic Medals per Capita

medalspercapita.com
 
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kozi said:
That’s surprising, thought we’d be top 5 at least. Fat campaigners
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If you get a small country that has a tradition of participating in a more 'niche' sport (like Kosovo with Judo, or Fiji with Rugby 7s), they'll always do well by that metric.

IMO Slovenia is probably the country that surprises most at having elite athletes in more popular sports, having Tadej Pogacar in cycling (although he didn't win gold in Toyko, he did just win the TdF) and Luca Doncic in basketball
 
drd23 said:
If you get a small country that has a tradition of participating in a more 'niche' sport (like Kosovo with Judo, or Fiji with Rugby 7s), they'll always do well by that metric.

IMO Slovenia is probably the country that surprises most at having elite athletes in more popular sports, having Tadej Pogacar in cycling (although he didn't win gold in Toyko, he did just win the TdF) and Luca Doncic in basketball
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Still a great stats page regardless.

Just purely off the data most telling thing is you have to go all the way down to GBR in 22nd before getting a tally anywhere near ours. From 1-21 the next best is 6 to our 14 (15 now). Smaller countries snagging 1 or 2 aside we’re pretty much right at the top along with NZ
 
drd23 said:
Sthlaker has the added benefit of already being employed by Channel 7
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I know Maher with his bloke-isms can butcher the English language but her ‘incremental increases’ in describing athlete’s doing PBs was a new low even for a show that has gazie as it’s funny man.
 
drd23 said:
Switched off so early in the SF that he went from easily winning to coming 3rd and only qualifying on time (instead of coming in the top 2)

Not the worst case of over-confidence this week (that goes to Sherricka Jackson), but it did piss some people off
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also stood at the introduction thing when walking into the stadium flexing and carrying on like a complete tool
 
pepsi said:
If you are still keen to watch something, I recommend you tune in to Brasil vs Russia in the volleyball.
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I've been glued to Germany vs Japan in the table tennis.

Japan fought from 0-2 down in the 4th match to send it to a decider
 
Inexplicable decision in the Argentina-India Hockey match. Argie challenged a decision, replay showed clearly the Argie player had not discarded the protective equipment and thus the ref's decision was correct, yet somehow, review ref found a way to over-rule the short corner decision for India. Suspicious to say the least.
 
bullish23 said:
I know Maher with his bloke-isms can butcher the English language but her ‘incremental increases’ in describing athlete’s doing PBs was a new low even for a show that has gazie as it’s funny man.
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sthlaker has more right to commentate on elite athletes competing than maher has. She at least has some understanding of what it takes to be an athlete at the highest level.
 
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HK_Hawk said:
Inexplicable decision in the Argentina-India Hockey match. Argie challenged a decision, replay showed clearly the Argie player had not discarded the protective equipment and thus the ref's decision was correct, yet somehow, review ref found a way to over-rule the short corner decision for India. Suspicious to say the least.
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Commentators and the onfield ref were bemused at the overrule.
 
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