Rio 2016 - Team USA news and medal count

[gambit]

US is winning most medals just in swimming

Because our athletes were trained by The Man From Atlantis. Michael Phelps is his son, a hybrid of a surface human and the last Atlantean.

 

[maximuswarrior]

I wish we had better funding for sports in Pakistan , more focused on Individual sports

• Running (100 Athletes)
  
• Tennis (100 Athletes)
  
• Boxing (100 Athletes)
  
• Wrestling (100 Athletes)
  
• Beach Volley Ball (100 Athletes)
  
• Judo (100 Athletes)
  
• Cycling (100 Athletes)
  
• Archery ( 50 Athletes)
• Tekuwando ( 50 Athletes)
  
• Shooting (100 Athletes)
  
• Diving /Swimming (50/50 Athletes)

Proper funding of 1000 Athletes (Scholar Ships) , good money incentive for 10 year projects
too often cricket teams get like Millions per player and their performance is Zero
Really helps with Image of a nation globally

Get rid of local federation(s) and make 1 Body to mange Financing of All sports , which identifies kids 10-11Year old gives them scholar Ships for 10 years
(1 Million Dollars each GRANT ). Kids would be identified by scouts for potential
provided the players would focus on Athletics as Career , they might get educated on side but spend majority of time for "Sports"

Between Age 10-20 they would have guaranteed 1 Million dollar in Bank, and people would be qualified to Represent Pakistan between starting ages 15 in Olympics and International Events

Bench Mark

• 5 Years between Age 10 and Age 15 to reach Olympic level

Age 15-18 , Abilities Peak and you can start representing Pakistan in Olympics
Late bloomers Age 20 you get to Olympics

By Age 18-20 , You probably would still have 500,000 USD-800,000 USD left in your back account but you would be ready to compete in Olympics due to your Training and bench marks

Body
Soul
Spirit

All dedicated to the sport

- Players could hire their own coach from they fund between Age 10-15

• 1.0 Billion USD , for sports development money going directly to players provided they can hit International Olympic level performance targets and hit mile stones for performance on year by year basis

Qualifying to Olympics Standard = 95,000 USD Bonus Paid by Gov
Qualifying to World Event = 95,000 USD Bonus Paid by Gov
Reaching Podium = 250,000 USD bonus Paid by Gov

Players keep any Endorsement money on Top / Participation Money / Winning Money
Post Olympics

It really sucks to see International events and Pakistani Nation Missing in action

While Government may not understand it , but SPORTS change image of Country in World

Funding alone won't cut it anymore.You need a lot of doping as well. The Olympics has become sophisticated for all the wrong reasons. The Olympics like many other sports is a Valhalla of cheaters. Not a single event goes by without many getting caught afterwards. Some athletes even have state level protection. The state actually funds and facilitates cheating and doping. I wouldn't be surprised if many athletes who are winning medals are going to be stripped later on. I don't watch the Olympics anymore. It has a terrible reputation. Honest athletes who train hard for years don't stand a chance against doping cheats.

 

[gambit]

I suggest 'The Doped Up Games'. First city host: Moscow.

 

[jhungary]

US Won another gold.......

Women Cycling - Road Time Trial - Kristin Armstrong Congrat

 

[F-22Raptor]

US Won another gold.......

Women Cycling - Road Time Trial - Kristin Armstrong Congrat

Congrats to Armstrong!

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

Actually, as much as China dominated weight lifting......

This is always how the game goes, the US start well in swimming, and China start well in Shooting (not this time tho), weight lifting and diving, and then collect some stagger medal from badminton and table tennis, gym etc while the US collect some stagger medal from tennis, boxing, shooting and something else, then it hit track and field again then the medal count just pull out...

Which sport in Olympic has most medals in it? Swimming?
Also a singe swimmer can participate in how many different categories of swimming?

 

[F-22Raptor]

The U.S. wins silver in diving! Looks like the Chinese got upset by the Brits for gold.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Which sport in Olympic has most medals in it? Swimming?

https://www.olympic.org/athletics

vs

https://www.olympic.org/swimming
(but swimming seems to be the one you have a better chance of winning multiple events)

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

US Won another gold.......

Women Cycling - Road Time Trial - Kristin Armstrong Congrat

The U.S. wins silver in diving! Looks like the Chinese got upset by the Brits for gold.

 

[waz]

I'm shocked that none of our American friends has mentioned Travis. He was the first American male to secure a medal since 2004....

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was a career day for Wakefield, Mass., resident Travis Stevens, who earned a silver medal in the half middleweight division Tuesday.

Stevens, the elder statesmen of the United States judo team at age 30, won his first four matches, including a decisive win over Avtandil Tchrikishvili of Georgia in the semifinals. Stevens was bested by 22-year-old Khasan Khalmurzaev of Russia in the gold-medal match. He was flipped for a match-ending ippon (a decisive technique).

Stevens, a Bellevue, Wash., native, medaled in his third Olympic appearance, having finished fifth in the 2012 London Games and ninth in Beijing in 2008.


It was a landmark victory for the United States. Stevens becomes the first American male since his coach Jimmy Pedro, scored a bronze in the 2004 Athens Games, and the first male to win silver since Jason Morris captured second place in Barcelona in 1992.

Stevens had mentioned the importance of popularizing judo in the United States and commented that winning Olympic medals would help that cause. Marblehead, Mass., native Kayla Harrison helped bring prestige to the sport by winning gold in the 2012 London Games, the first for an American judoka at the Olympics.



https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...silver-judo/SISrWpxdtpDQ4Jm9FnNd5J/story.html

 

[war&peace]

Another Medal for Team USA

Silver - Men's Team Archery, With Gold went to South Korea, Bronze went to Australia. China ran 4th

More to come

Hey amphoteric guy you get to celebrate twice but what happens if it is China vs Aus

 

[F-22Raptor]

U.S. Takes a silver in fencing! Congrats to Daryl Homer!

 

[jhungary]

Hey amphoteric guy you get to celebrate twice but what happens if it is China vs Aus

I have already done the same with US vs Australia today with men's basketball, I will go for whoever that win :0 lol yes, I am a grass.

I'm shocked that none of our American friends has mentioned Travis. He was the first American male to secure a medal since 2004....

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was a career day for Wakefield, Mass., resident Travis Stevens, who earned a silver medal in the half middleweight division Tuesday.

Stevens, the elder statesmen of the United States judo team at age 30, won his first four matches, including a decisive win over Avtandil Tchrikishvili of Georgia in the semifinals. Stevens was bested by 22-year-old Khasan Khalmurzaev of Russia in the gold-medal match. He was flipped for a match-ending ippon (a decisive technique).

Stevens, a Bellevue, Wash., native, medaled in his third Olympic appearance, having finished fifth in the 2012 London Games and ninth in Beijing in 2008.


It was a landmark victory for the United States. Stevens becomes the first American male since his coach Jimmy Pedro, scored a bronze in the 2004 Athens Games, and the first male to win silver since Jason Morris captured second place in Barcelona in 1992.

Stevens had mentioned the importance of popularizing judo in the United States and commented that winning Olympic medals would help that cause. Marblehead, Mass., native Kayla Harrison helped bring prestige to the sport by winning gold in the 2012 London Games, the first for an American judoka at the Olympics.



https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...silver-judo/SISrWpxdtpDQ4Jm9FnNd5J/story.html

Was asleep when that happen.....

Which sport in Olympic has most medals in it? Swimming?
Also a singe swimmer can participate in how many different categories of swimming?

No, track and field have the most medal, (47 vs 34 with swimming)

And you cannot just "enter" different categories of swimming, there is an Olympic Selection for that, you need to beat the best of the world in either world tournament, or Olympic trial, getting a spot means you are good for it.

Most swimming can usually do 5 different categories most 4 (2 relay and 2 individual)

Plus I don't see how it's unfair for US to dominate Swimming and Track and Field, you push what you get, and if you don't push, of course you are not gonna get it, the thing is, US medal tally focus on these big ticket event, as much as single event like basketball. They are not trying to be unfair by focusing on these sport that have a large amount of medal in it, they are trying their best in any sport there are, and in this case, they are very good at basketball, women football, cycling, track and field, swimming.

We won't call it unfair to say China dominate Weight lifting, Table Tennis, Diving, Badminton. We aren't just as good as the Chinese, the same as the Chinese just not as good as our swimmer, track and field athletes, and so on. They can beat us in swimming one day and we can beat them in weight lifting one day, we just did not give enough resource in these event as with the Chinese did not give enough resource on those event. and that's what fair game is,

Congrats to Armstrong!

When you say that, I thought it was congratulation to @Armstrong

 

[F-22Raptor]

Josh Prenot wins silver in the 200 breaststroke.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Adrian wins bronze in the 100 free.