This is just sad; I don't even know what channel aired this (if it's America's or not) but I feel secondhand embarrassment just looking at this from how desperate this is.
Needs the ghost of Harold Holt patting them on the back but we can just say he's invisible
I'm pretty sure countries don't get to send an amount of athletes in a direct relation to their population?
i mean if you chose the 5 best athletes in a middle-of-buttfuck-nowhere town to compete against the 5 best athletes in a city of a million people who do you think would win?
And the coverage is terrible! Full of ads, bad commentary by idiots that know nothing about what they're seeing and hardly any actual sport.
We had better coverage in New Zealand in the 2000s than Australia has had in the last decade
I think Stan Sports also has it. That's a streaming platform so it's probably nine for broadcast and Stan for streaming
Nine also owns The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Financial Review
You are like a little baby. Watch this: https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-sports-analytics/jsa240874
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There is no Olympics Australia has not won.
By that metric, Saint Lucia has 8 gold per 1.44 million residents.
Wanna know something funny? Remember all the weird doping allegations the west is pushing on China with 0 evidence?
They caught a famous American athlete and they snitched on the entire operation, with multiple other high profile athletes involved. Previous Olympic events, etc.
You’ve gotta try harder than that, man. The propaganda is making a mockery out of itself.
Ah but did you consider that hypothetically, the bad country could be doing it? Checkmate Tankie :smuglord: !
is it time to ban the US from the olympics?
Israel should have been banned a LONG time agoWait. So the fucking Olympic Committee pressured representatives in Utah to take an oath honoring the WADA because China, while America was doing it itself?
I’d be surprised if it wasn’t an every day occurrence.
This is like how right after Oct. 7th Israeli officials tried to argue that it was like 50x worse than 9/11 because more people died per capita measured against the full population of both countries.
This some sense, but not that much sense - it doesn’t matter if your country has a hundred thousand people or a billion, there’s only so many events, and a maximum number of athletes per country per event that can be sent. Sure, a larger population increases the chances that a talent can be identified and trained, but peak human performance only has so much variance.
true, except
crackers never take into account "resources per capita" or "food/land per capita" because it would demolish their narrative
Since I'm a nerd who recently figured out you could just copy and paste Libeoffice tables into the comments, I'm going to post a table of all participating countries/regions sorted by gold medal per athlete when the Olympics are done.
This is an earlier table:
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Please format those numbers, it's making my eyes hurt
And no center alignment on numbers!
we cannot be doing this cringe after spending all of week 1 (as per usual) roasting the great satan for ordering by total medals instead of by gold priority
Anything they can do we can also do but slightly more pathetic
Ordering by total medals is at least a normal way of ordering things that is useful information. This isn't any of those things.
Sure, I mean, this is an interesting metric. And it's not like Australia's a tiny nation that got lucky with one athlete. It's definitely something to brag about along with countries that brag about total medals and total golds.
There's so many interesting metrics. The real cream of the crop metric is which country has the most WR and OR. You could get gold and still be mediocre with mediocre competition relative to the history of the sport, but world record is world record.
The US has a formidable amount of Olympic records even if you account for number of athletes send. And South Korea has an elite crop of athletes. Based on a table I've created from an earlier date, they have the best gold/athlete ratio, and from a quick scan, their number of OR is really impressive. They have half the OR of the US but only have a third of the number of athletes the US has.
