OT - Will USA win most gold medals?
For those of you who are rooting for China to win the most gold medals, you are likely to be disappointed. Why? Incoming...
As of this writing (12pm eastern time) the US is within 2 gold medals of China (China 38 to USA 36.) We must now look at the remaining gold medal matches left in the olympics. The USA, over the next 36 hours will participate in 4 gold-medal matches (women's bball, women's indoor volleyball and two men's boxing gold medals.) The Chinese are not participating in any future gold medal matches. China finished with 38 gold medals.
The USA women's bball team is an auto-gold medal win. So, it's really going to come down to the USA women's volleyball match, and those 2 USA boxing matches. If the US wins any one of those 3, they tie China for final gold medal count, and will have defeated China by 20+ total medals. If US wins 2 of those remaining 3 gold-medal matches, USA wins total gold medals and of course total medal count.
As of this moment, I'd rather be the USA than China when it comes to the end, and we know who won the most gold medals. Proof of the remaining events:
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/olympic-schedule-and-results-date=2021-08-08.htm
August 7th, 2021 at 12:05 PM ^
Rooting for China? No.
A wise man once said, “Fuck ‘em.”
“As of this moment, I'd rather be the USA than China”
So, if the USA wins just one gold, you’ll be all in on China?
August 7th, 2021 at 11:40 PM ^
I’m very fond of the Chinese people. I am very, very the opposite of fond of the CCP.
August 7th, 2021 at 11:57 PM ^
Just to hijack this first comment, the US just tied in golds already with women's basketball and cycling track women's omnium.
August 8th, 2021 at 12:25 PM ^
Spoiler Alert: USA won
MERICA!! Fuck yeah!!
August 7th, 2021 at 12:10 PM ^
No doubt China’s strategy is to dominate the world through sports,lol.
well, actually...
August 7th, 2021 at 12:13 PM ^
It's cute that you think any of the results haven't been predetermined. /s
Edit: Apologies to anyone who hasn't been inundated with stupid conspiracy theories.
August 7th, 2021 at 12:16 PM ^
It's even cuter you think the US women's basketball team has any chance of losing later today. Don't ever change. It's adorable.
August 7th, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^
Is that a conspiracy theory comment or an acknowledgment of the US women’s basketball team having overwhelming talent?
The latter, imo
Here you go, greymarch. I enhanced your link, making it clickable for everyone.
Thanks Rob.
August 7th, 2021 at 12:18 PM ^
For those of you who are rooting for China to win the most gold medals, you are likely to be disappointed
such a strange premise with which to start on an English speaking blog, associated heavily with an exclusively American sport, tied to a specific region of our country. Do you really think there are more than a minuscule minority of readers on this blog who were rooting against the US?
August 7th, 2021 at 12:52 PM ^
I was thinking the same thing, I stay off social media so it is the first time I have heard a dumb comment like that.
Is it a “thing” for people to root for the Chinese team in aggregate vs the US team?
I will say I was rooting for the amazing 14 year old Chinese diver who was raising money for her mom’s surgery. One of the most incredible performances I have ever seen.
There was a nontrivial number of people convinced to root against the USWNT.
I know 90% of my golf league was rooting against them. Myself not included in that.
I was and will always actively root for the success of the US in international competition regardless of what social initiatives they may or may not support.
I don't even want to know why. It'll depress me.
The internet has killed sarcasm
”Some of those people may well be journalists who have had embarrassing lapses of satire-blindness in the past. The Washington Post, for example, was once fooled into reporting that Sarah Palin was, in a somewhat unlikely career move, taking a job at al-Jazeera. And the English-language arm of China’s People’s Daily fell for an Onion article proclaiming the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, the sexiest man alive, even using the accolade as an opportunity to run a 55-image slideshow of him, complete with quotes from the Onion spoof. Although, it’s possible this may itself have been satire – I’m unsure.”
OP was clearly being ironic with the opening line. I'm sure he wasn't suggesting that this is a blog with a heavy presence of Chinese nationals or anything like that.
OP was clearly being ironic with the opening line. I'm sure he wasn't suggesting that this is a blog with a heavy presence of Chinese nationals or anything like that.
there's dozens of us! /s
which reminds me, i had a dorm friend who, wanting to be PC and not use the dated term 'Oriental', called me 'ornamental', so I naturally called him 'accidental' - we had a good chuckle out of that
August 7th, 2021 at 12:31 PM ^
Total medal and total gold count is overrated anyways. Olympics isn’t a true team sport and 90% of the athletes from the same nation will barely interact with each other. I’ll root for US in sports I know something about, but otherwise, I’m just hoping to be entertained. I don’t feel a large sense of pride or disappointment if the US wins or loses the medal count. We are the most developed and richest nation, we probably should win most medals and golds. China will probably surpass us in both in the coming decades as they continue to develop.
August 7th, 2021 at 12:59 PM ^
Not to mention that many Americans are competing for other nations because of family connections to those countries.
America is and has always been significantly a country of people who've come from elsewhere, meaning it's not us versus them.
It's us versus us-past & us-competing-for-parents'-country and us-maybe-future.
I always root for the athletes from random small countries. Winning a gold for them is like David beating a small army of Goliaths
Ngl I was rooting for Japan to beat the US women in basketball last night. That just would've been a great story for the host nation to win gold.
Yeah there have been quite a few American athletes participating for other places. The pole vault winner was born and raised in Louisiana, but did it under Sweden.
August 7th, 2021 at 12:34 PM ^
China has one more gold opportunity in boxing - Women’s Middle 69-75kg. But even with that we can tie or win the gold medal count.
August 7th, 2021 at 12:56 PM ^
I’m definitely not rooting for China but frankly I don’t care how many we win either. How many people remember the medal count from Rio? Did we “win”? I have no idea.
It’s amazing how NBC manages to get us to temporarily care about all these oddball sports like shooting, wall climbing, weightlifting and whatnot. In 2024 there will also be breakdancing. Can’t wait!
I'm gonna root for the Chinese guy in the knuckle-cracking gold medal match, I'll tell ya that.
I haven't watched one second of the Olympics. I don't care who wins what. It's all a big commercial anyway.
Although I don't care for the Olympics, I hope the USA wins the most gold medals. I only have room in my heart for one corrupt, fucked-up sporting organization. That spot goes to FIFA.
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Unless some country like Liechtenstein wins a Gold Medal in these last days (and they have won 2 Gold Medals in Olympics history, albeit at the Winter Games!), Bermuda has the "most Gold Medals per capita" locked up and clinched at this point.
Neither the USA nor China is catching Bermuda in that KPI!
For those of you who are rooting for China to win the most gold medals, you are likely to be disappointed.
Good point. This would only be a strawman if you replaced “are rooting for China to” with “believe China will” and “disappointed” with “wrong”.
And we’re not commies
We're corporate commies.
This was an odd OP
Isn’t the men’s marathon today? It’s not likely China will win that, but they are at least participating so there’s a chance.
I've always gone by the convention:
gold medal - 5 pts
silver medal - 3 pts
bronze medal - 1 pt
That I learned from the incomparable Summer Games video game from Epyx that I played on the Commodore 64 back in the day. From this point of view the US is way ahead.
+1 for the Commodore 64 reference ,8,1
As our country disintegrates, China will become the new world power, regardless of sports or gold medals. And in the future, I am sure they will win the most medals.
America is not at its peak, but China's demographics will catch up soon. They're aging much faster than they should be for their income level because of their past 1 child policy. And they really can't make up for it with immigration because as a percentage of the population they'd have to bring in so many people to make a debt and people aren't exactly banging the door down to get in.
To hell with the CCP!….not it’s people.
A wise man stated in recent years, the US is too busy still being racist towards blacks, LatinX, Asians, etc...and meanwhile in China, well...everyone is Chinese.
Dave Chappelle was that wise man.
Edit: I think this was meant to be a retort to the post above...regarding China taking over
If Chappelle said that, he really needs to take a trip to Xinjiang.
Although China leads in gold medals during the 2021 Olympics (38-36) over the USA, the USA has more total medals (108-87). The medals totals are 38-31-18 for China and 36-39-33 for the USA. China has won medals in 19 sports. The USA has won medals in 27 sports.
If scoring were based on a 3-2-1 points system for Gold-Silver-Bronze, the USA would lead in both total medals and points (219-195); using the 5-3-1 scoring system, the USA also would lead China in total medals and points (330-301).
China does very well where the USA does poorly – diving (China: 7 gold, 12 total; USA: 0 gold, 3 total), badminton (China: 2 gold, 6 total; USA: 0), table tennis (4 gold, 7 total; USA: 0) and weightlifting (China: 7 gold, 8 total; USA: 0 gold, 2 total). Swimming (11 gold, 30 total; China: 3 gold, 6 total) and track and field (7 gold, 26 total; China: 2 gold, 5 total) are where the USA does very well.