I predict:

The Chinese will win the "AFV Dodging" event;
The North Koreans will win the "Hot Dog Eating" event (if real dogs are used);
The USA will win the "Close Quarters Combat" event;
and
The French will win the "Syncronized Miming" event.

In all seriousness, the Summer Olympics hold little interest, to me. I'll be at the next Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC, Canada, for Women's Curling:

Third time Atlantic's pulled this dumb shit.

Every day that the EU wins a medal during the Olympics he should get 100 karma.

Every day that passes without an EU medal being awarded, he should be banned for 24 hours and fined 100 karma.

tooshman wrote:

Growing up I used to love watching the Olympics. Not anymore. Far too many of the "competitions" now are of the junk sport variety. It's become a parity of itself and way too politicized.

don't you even like the synchronised drowning - those dopey bitches with clips on the noses are always good for a laugh

If we get to field 50 teams we would even win more gold.

No you wouldn't.
You must be confusing high level competition sport and picking strawberries in a field.
The number of medals for one team doesn't depend of how many athletes you send, but of how many athletes with a chance to get a medal you send. This is particularly true for Gold medals.

France could send half as many athletes and still get about the same number of medals.
The US could send 10 times more athletes and still get about the same number of medals.

Again, this is not the point.
Whatever the EU is a country or not, whatever it's fair or not to add the medals of 27 individual countries, or split into 50 the medals of one county, whatever if most US medals usually come from 3 or 4 states, these are elements everybody know and should not prevent you from placing a bet.

manhole, are you truly that daft?

The EU represents 30? countries with each a team. The USA only gets one shoot, one team. If we get to field 50 teams we would even win more gold,

presumably you are sending your best! ie the chances of your #6 male marathon runner winning the gold is not so big


so if the UK sent 60 million people we would win every event?

the fastest person over 100m will win that medal be they from the vatican usa or china

Third time Atlantic's pulled this dumb shit.

Interesting how he calls for the death of all brits one day then wants to share in their spoils another day.

Doesn't really matter, I truly hope you'll be out of the EU as soon as possible, that will will establish Visas for Brits wanting to enter the EU, and refuse them all.

Then we can wait until global warming takes care of your foggy islands.
And when your 60 million useless alcoholic teethless bastards will be starving on the Ben Nevis mount, we will help you as much as you helped us in Dunkirk. For the survivors, we'll switch to the Mers El Kebir plan. And for the very last Brit filth on earth, there will still be the Joan of Arc or Napoleon plan to take care of him.

The french are always there when they need you.

Every day that the EU wins a medal during the Olympics he should get 100 karma.

Every day that passes without an EU medal being awarded, he should be banned for 24 hours and fined 100 karma.

I may modify your brilliant idea a little, but it sounds like a good plan.

Third time Atlantic's pulled this dumb shit.

4th time, actually.

In Athens in 2004, EU's athletes won 82 gold medals, 35 for the US, 32 for China.
www.fuckfrance.com . . .

For the 2004 paralympics, EU's athletes won 143 medals, 45 for China. The US finished 4th behing Australia:

www.fuckfrance.com . . .

In Turin in 2006, the EU gathered 22 gold medals, the US just 7.
www.fuckfrance.com . . .

It's also the very first time in this site's prediction system.
If ff.com's administration doesn't sabotage this thread, it could be a good occasion for big pay-outs...

Every day that the EU wins a medal during the Olympics he should get 100 karma.

Countries don't get medals at the Olympics, athletes or teams do.
This prediction is not about medals won BY the EU, but by athletes FROM the EU.
Even a dumb chimp like you should be able to understand the difference.

Maybe you need a picture?
For instance, do you think THOSE medals were won BY the US, FOR the US, or just by people FROM the US?

The thread links you supplied all got locked and edited.... and you're fucking stupid enough to do it again?

This prediction is not about medals won BY the EU, but by athletes FROM the EU.

Really? Your prediction clearly states the following;

'Who will top the medal ranking in the Beijing Olympics?'
This prediction is open until 2008-08-04 23:00:00 unless resolved earlier

1 - China - 30 contracts
2 - European Union - 100 contracts
3 - USA - 80 contracts
4 - Other - 0 contracts

Choice number 2 is The European Union.

Who will top the medal ranking in the Beijing Olympics?

2 - European Union


You asked which political entity's athletes would win the most medals.

You supplied the choices

1. a country.
2. a trade union.
3. a country.
4. other.

So your saying the the EU counts as one country?

why don't you be brave and tell us what medals you think France will win?

I'm going to go out on a limb here.

China will miraculously win in events that they never win medals in..

and just like the Korean Olympics there will be quite a few big upsets..

obvious cheating, bad referee calls..all to help China's medal count.


But back to France....

are you afraid to list Frances medal hopefuls and even shoe-ins?

here's the latest odds:www.oddschecker.com . . .

so...don't be coy..whats Frances best chances for a medal?

You asked which political entity's athletes would win the most medals.

I asked "who", not "which country" or "Which Political entity".
"Who", is a short way of saying "Athletes from which political entity"

The thread links you supplied all got locked and edited.... and you're fucking stupid enough to do it again?

ALL my threads were once (twice, actually) locked, not those ones specifically.
Why do I do it again? Not for some kind of European nationalism, my European political convictions are at the opposite of nationalism.
But how could I miss a new occasion to read again the same old bashers inconsistent and contradictory litanies switching from "the EU is the new Soviet Union and/or Nazi Germany" to "The EU doesn't exist", see them explaining again, in a very anti-American "Divided we Stand" logic, that the US would get more medals if they were sending 50 separate teams (What Gold would your white-trash red-neck trailer parks provide, exactly, when 4 of your states provide more than half of the US medals, with California at the top of the list)

No, the US would not get more medals with 50 teams, it could even get less in team sports and relays.
No, EU athletes would not get less medals in a more compact single team, they could even get more with the synergy effect of unity.
Yes they could get less medals in team sports and relays, but they would more likely be in Gold, that count first in the rankings.

why don't you be brave and tell us what medals you think France will win?

Swimming, Judo, Fencing, Rowing, Cycling should provide their usual lot of French medals, with other good chances for a total of between 30 and 40 medals.
With 11 titles and 33 medals, French athletes were the second contributors to Athens' EU athletes tally:
www.fuckfrance.com . . .
With 7 titles and 15 medals (more than the US), France was the EU's second contributor in Turin again:
www.fuckfrance.com . . .

I can only hope this will be the case again in Beijing.

Why don't you post a prediction thread about which US states will provide the most US medals? This could be an interesting competition between California, New York and Texas. It would be interesting to see how, when you are bragging about US medals, you are bragging about medals from states you despise and constantly bash on this website!

I mean what the fuck, if athletes from a country like Spain or Great Britain or Latvia have enough pride to represent their own countries, why should they be amassed in some failed bureaucratic conglomerate from Brussels.

It doesn't seem to bother them in the golf US vs EU Ryder Cup!

If an athlete from Great Britain wins a medal, when the athlete stands on the podium to receive it, will the national anthem from Great Britain or the anthem from the European Union be played?

In 1980 in Moscow, Western European athletes received their medals with the Olympic flag and anthem, it didn't seem to bother them either. They compete for themselves first.

This is yet another farcical and childish piece of moron bullshit.

No, it's a game, and a piece of prospective.

The USA and China are identifiable countries and political entities, the EU is just a ridiculous concept.

The EU is perfectly identifiable.
As for China, it's not so obvious if you take the cases of Taiwan and Hong-Kong into consideration. Same for the US and some of their possessions like Puerto-Rico that have their own team.
wiki.answers.com . . .

It has nothing to do with the UN, moron. The UK is political, like the US, GB is geographic, like the EU.

Thanks for making my point.
Olympic teams have nothing to do indeed with the UN.
Athletes from the UK (political) split into a GB team (geographical in your own words) and an Ireland team (Geographical again) that includes Ulster.

No, EU athletes would not get less medals in a more compact single team, they could even get more with the synergy effect of unity.

This is factually incorrect loony, if you weren't retarded you'd see it.

As it stands, it is possible for the UK, Spain and Germany to all have athletes or teams on the podium at the same time for any event. If the pee-u were a country with a single team, they'd have only one of those medals. Since you are proposing to count all medals, even silver and bronze, you are leaving it open for the PeeU to earn multiple medals per even when no real team can do so.

As has been mentioned previously, were teh US permitted to send as many teams as our beloved make-believe PeeU does we'd also have the shot at multiple medals per event. Your argument that only a few US states would be competitive don't matter. All it would take is 3 strong teams, which CA, TX, NY and a few others are capable of fielding.

How about we make your stupid poll fair? During the Olympics, any time the PeeU wins more than one medal in an event, you only get to count 1 of those medals towards the total? So if 2 or 3 PeeU teams medal in gymnastics, you only get to count 1.

Will there be french judges?

That will determine more than a few medals.

ok to correct myself i forgot team events, but how many medals are awarded for team events i presume its like 10% without checking, maybe for them only the best placed eu team should count

i am against the eu check my k record with Dewi threads

but its just a bit of fun at the end of the day, if you don't want to predict don't play

As it stands, it is possible for the UK, Spain and Germany to all have athletes or teams on the podium at the same time for any event.

But they can't get several Gold medals.
In most sports, it's possible for the US as well, as we will cetainly see it in Athletics.
What you say is true only for team sports that account for very few of the awarded medals.

Since you are proposing to count all medals, even silver and bronze

In this ranking method, silver and bronze only count in case of a tie on gold. Not likely to happen with groups of such a size as the US, EU and China. It never happened before.
In Athens, if there were only a 3 gold medals gap between the US and China, the gap between the US and the EU was of almost 50 gold medals...

How about we make your stupid poll fair

It IS completely fair.
All wheres and abouts are known.
The result will be clear on the Olympics last day (For obvious timing reasons, we will not wait the necessary couple of years for the doped US athletes to be stripped of their medals like Marion Jones)

You know the rules, this prediction if about the medal tally of athletes from China (PRC), USA, and from the EU nations, as for the official medal table on the last day of those olympics on en.beijing2008.cn .

During the Olympics, any time the PeeU wins more than one medal in an event, you only get to count 1 of those medals towards the total? So if 2 or 3 PeeU teams medal in gymnastics, you only get to count 1.

And I would do the same for the US and China, then?
I guess you would allow me to retain the best medal for either one?
Then I can assure you that it would not change the ranking in any way.

If there's a tie in Gold medals, I will reconsider your objection and remove the duplicate EU medals in team sports, ok?

ok to correct myself i forgot team events, but how many medals are awarded for team events i presume its like 10% without checking

Yes, Nappy.
A EU unified team would certainly get less medals in team sports like handball, football... where only one team per Olympic committee is allowed.
But this is balanced by other team sports where the team score is the sum of individual athletes performances (gymnastic, relays, horse riding...) In those sports, a unified team would get more medals, including more Gold medals.
For instance, a European relay in athletics or swimming would do better than any individual European relay team would.

but its just a bit of fun at the end of the day, if you don't want to predict don't play

Exactly, and the tone of some bashers' reaction to this kind of game is typical of how uncomfortable and insecure they are with their own vain nationalism.

Is that a real olympic discipline ?

Exactly, and the tone of some bashers' reaction to this kind of game is typical of how uncomfortable and insecure they are with their own vain nationalism.

Says the moron who has to include dozens of countries, including one he wishes were destroyed and every citizen dead, in his "count" to masturbate his ego.



Projection: In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes one’s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others.

All it would take is 3 strong teams, which CA, TX, NY and a few others are capable of fielding.

CA already provides one third of the US olympic team, and would rank 4th or 5th if competing as a single team.
This might give the US 3 medals in Basketball instead of 1, but this still would be 1 Gold at best and therefore not impact the overall ranking much.
On another hand, how many athletics and swimming relay gold medals would you kiss bye bye? Probably enough for China to pass you over.
In Athens, the US gathered around 100 medals for more than 500 participants. If anyone, wherever in the US, would have had more chances to get a medal than the 400 US athletes who failed to get one, they would have been selected.

Anyway, you have 4 weeks to place your bets.

Let's hope that this site's administration will not interfere with the outcome...
Something tells me they might make the USA option win whatever the result is, even if China actually wins...

oh i didn't mean a pan EU team, i took the point that if the soccer medals go to GB, France and Padania and as USA only enters 1 soccer team we are depriving them, as they can't get a full slate in this event

so if the medals for this are so awarded only GB's gold medal should count in this tally GAME

so if the medals for this are so awarded only GB's gold medal should count in this tally GAME

Ok, I will make this kind of calculation only in case of a tie in gold medals.
More likely, this prediction will be decided with gold medals only.

Atlantic wrote:

The number of medals for one team doesn't depend of how many athletes you send, but of how many athletes with a chance to get a medal you send. This is particularly true for Gold medals.

Bullshit. World class athletes often compete at a similar level. If the best one, say from China, has a bad day, then it is often wide open for the rest of the field, and if one team has 30 competitors [EU] to the other team's single competitor [USA] then that is a distinct advantage. Consider issues like injuries, bad days, etc...

Let's hope that this site's administration will not interfere with the outcome...
Something tells me they might make the USA option win whatever the result is...

Like every sane person on Earth, this site recognizes the International Olympic Committee as the official tabulator of Olympic medals, NOT a delusional sisterboy propagandist.

And since the IOC does NOT recognize EU as a country, neither will this website.

In fact, any post reporting fictitious "EU" medal counts will be considered spam and the author of said threads banned for spamming.