1. USA (19 medals)

1. USA (19 medals)
2. China (13 medals)
>POWER GAP
99999. Rest of the world (Insignificant number of medals)

How will they EVER recover from this?

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god bless america

Imagine how much obama paid to allow your sportsman to use drugs kek

>Poland
>1 medal
>Bronze
Was it in toilet unclogging?

>Le only one country uses AAS xD

Every single professional athlete isnt natty you fucking pole

in Poland we don't care about sport kek

>USA
>population 315m
>19 medals
>straya
>population 23m
>7 medals

Good to see you managed to at least pick 19 decently fit people out of the hundreds of millions of fatties

thinking atm

>breaking down Olympics medals per capita
Hilariously desperate

If you have 13x the population of the country you're comparing yourself to that means you had far more chances to raise a really talented athlete.
The nigga USA sends to run had to beat 315 millions, the one straya sends only had to beat 23 millions. Do the math.

How the fuck has India only won 26 medals in its entire history when it has 17% of the world's population?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table

>muh one in a million success story

So we have the better athletes and a bigger popuation. Why even make the argument? Does us having a huge population somehow make Americans who win a gold less impressive than an Australian who wins one? I don't get what the point is supposed to be.

The point is that it's not something worth bragging about. And don't get me wrong, being proud of your athletes giving their all is great, but the attitude from people like OP is just stupid.

The point is that it's a lot less likely for an aussie to get a gold medal due to statistics when compared to americans. This means that australians are better people on average than americans.

So uhh, are you implying that an elite athlete from Finland would somehow make the entire country athletic or what? That's not how it works. It really doesn't make any sense whatsoever to try and break down Olympic medals per capita lol. Only so many people from each country can even go. It seems like butthurt desu.

That argument completely falls apart due to the fact that we don't get to send extra people to the Olympics based on our population.

>So uhh, are you implying that an elite athlete from Finland would somehow make the entire country athletic
No, only more athletic than usa. Or china. Or any other country.

Shitty b8

This is Sup Forums, buddy. It's all about shitposting with flags.

We're not all this retarded, I swear.

But you have larger pool of athletes to choose from.

No, that's completely irrelevant.

Let them have this. Losing to the United States culturally, politically, economically, and now athletically can't be easy; they need to something to help them cope

>No, only more athletic than usa. Or china. Or any other country.
Hahaha your shit's all retarded. I thought Fins were supposed to be intelligent yet every single one I've talked to on this board thinks and acts like a 13 year old with ADHD.

>you're retarded
american argumentation

Okay, so we have a larger pool of athletes to choose from. We choose the best and dominate with them. How does this somehow make Finnish athletes better than American athletes because of muh per capita? It's an argument that completely falls apart when you actually think about it for more than 2 seconds.

Then Colombia is utterly a piece of shit on soccer right ? Because a nation with a population 15 times bigger than Uruguay has 15 times less Copa Americas than Uruguay.

Really makes you think....

why do fags take so much pride in accomplishments of people you don't even know. Everytime I watch the olympics I get kind of depressed because I know could have been a way better athlete, and probably made it, if I didn't fuck myself up with injury, and not put in the effort to get better coaching.

Yeah, you do have a point there. There are some factors at play like poverty/violence/zero incentives for sportsmen that aren't really helping us breed good athletes, but they'll look like mere excuses.
Sip, los uruguayos nos tienen de hijos.

Sports make people happy. There's really not a good reason to overthink something that's relatively harmless. Most of us don't actually give a shit about the Olympics, but it's something to shit post about. Just like people posting about muh whiteness or wars from 200 years ago. It just seems like when an American does it it's offensive and stupid, but when anyone else does it it's le hilarious banter.

I know it's hard for you dear, so I'll explain it:

If all people were created equal, the distribution of olympic medals would be uniform between all different nations; Finland should have approximately one medal for each 60 or so American medals. However, this is not the case, which means that Finns are better than Americans in some way, whether that be genetics, education, spirit or funding.

This doesn't degrade the achievements of the few exceptional people USA does send to the Olympics, but their relatively small number is an embarrassment to the whole country.

Hope this helps you!

*tips*

That statement has a degree of truth to it but it should also be noted that some events are very popular in the states while some are not. And as only one athlete can be sent per event, its not entirely apt. People in America care way more about basketball than badminton, whereas in China people love badminton and so they would naturally do better in it.

>If all people were created equal, the distribution of olympic medals would be uniform between all different nations;
All people are not equal.

>Finland should have approximately one medal for each 60 or so American medals. However, this is not the case, which means that Finns are better than Americans in some way, whether that be genetics, education, spirit or funding.
Finland has the same # of chances to win a medal every Olympcs as Americans do, but wins less of them. I suppose you can say that more Fins per capita win medals, but that's a meaningless stat because we're not aloud to put more people in the games just because we have a larger population. The per capita meme is silly and doesn't actually make any sense.

>I suppose you can say that more Fins per capita win medals, but that's a meaningless stat because we're not aloud to put more people in the games just because we have a larger population.
See, that's the entire point. Because athletes compete against the whole world and you're ""aloud"" to send only a fixed amount of people, it's more impressive when a finn wins than when a burger wins, since there are less finns around.

I mean, I understand what you're getting at, but there's no way of knowing what the total count would be if representation was in proportion to population. I mean, if tha were the case, would it surprise anyone if the U.S. took gold, silver, and bronze in basketball more years than not? Who's to say that the 2nd best American or Chink in any given singles event where the first best wins gold isn't also the 2nd best in the world? That's why the proportion argument falls apart.

You're trying to say that the amount of medals isn't uniform between different olympic sports? I agree, and I think that group sports should have never been included in the Olympics.

Sadly I think it has something to do with the mentality we have. I'm not speaking as individuals but as a collective. Urugatos are very determined to win, whereas Colombians get somewhat afraid and choke. Perhaps it really has to do with whiteness. I'm not saying that because you aren't white you are going to be an inferior athlete, but because the west had this ongoing idea that if you're not white you are a filthy subhuman... just like Sup Forums does. Sup Forums is just the unfiltered and dark side of the masses imo. So once the inferiority propaganda is accepted by the subconscious mind, the inferior one does what is expected... he-she loses.

And absolutely... poverty, civil war etc were really big key factors. While we were getting mutilated and bomber by the civil wars and drug cartels, urugatos and arjentinos on the other hand were just chilling and practicing soccer as a national passtime under a wealthy economy and not many real threats at play.

because our tax dollars funded the medical advancements that allowed these athletes to compete without being caught by drug tests

I recognize you. You shitpost in /jap/ meanwhile I have a japanese wife and we both hate that horrible culture.

pssssschhttt disgusting bro. Ugh, I'm disgusted with myself actually, time for bed and/or banning myself from this website.

I just see it as an opportunity to shitpost. I guess it's because you are somehow proud that you are born in a nation that is wealthy and well organized that it's a soil for athletes to be good?

Ultimately nationalism is retarded but I guess it's needed.

No, I'm saying that it's totally possible that if each country was allowed to put as many athletes as they wanted into an event that we would have a medal count proportionally higher than Finland.

I don't get these sport events, living vicariously through others and sweating while wobbling towards kitchen to grab another Dr.Pepper or your beer of choice.

poverty

>USA had to wait til day 3 til their stats were good enough to brag about

best for the last

the did the same for thousands of years, it is to admire human beauty, ofc it was cooler when they were nude

the=they*

To win a gold medal, the USA has to find a good athlete out of 318 million people.

To win a gold medal, New Zealand has to find a good athlete out of 4.4 million people.

The USA has 72x the people of New Zealand, making it much more impressive when New Zealand wins a medal because they had a far more limited population to draw athletes from. The more people you have, the more great athletes you'll probably have.

We've finished 2/3 days on top

I literally could not give less of a fuck about the US winning in international sports. With a 350 million population it is literally not a victory to beat anybody. We should just send regional teams or something and have a setup like the UK does for soccer. As it is victories are meaningless and defeats are just the height of embarassment. Who gives a fuck how many millions of people we can throw at an event until some of them are good? Any country could do that given like a third of a billion people.

California would rape most countries

I just want to crawl in a corner and hope for 2016 to pass quickly.

These olympics are a disaster, Our team goes from one deception to another, our commentators are even more cringey than usual. I just want it to stop.

india has 1 billion poos in loo yet they can't score any medal till their independence.

Yeah but they don't really give a fuck about anything besides cricket and don't pretend to be great athletes. They also have like no government funding for sports. We literally pour money into this shit and have a population of Europeans and nig nogs that can actually win things.

>With a 350 million population it is literally not a victory to beat anybody
India would like a word with you, user

Slovakia or Portugal could probably beat India in 80% of events senpai

Who is winning in medals adjusted for population anyway? Last time it was Britain I think but that was on home turf

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why dont other countries just gain a bigger population?

Well its quite sad that your only athletes are african but its united states of africa after all.
also
>less than 20% white lmao

>there are nine Americans on the planet for every one Pole

Mad cause bad

blacky always wins