An Open Letter To All Americans

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Or maybe per GDP, or perhaps by how many sport players who won those medals were actually born in the country, ie. are not naturalized... Or, I don't know, not use a country that exists 5 years as a basis for comparison and at least take into account medals won by Yugoslavia?

Even though, I've got another statistics for you, read it and weep. To be fair on you, I picked basketball, a sport you Americans invented.

World Championships:
USA
Gold medals: 3
Silver medals: 3
Bronze medals: 4

Serbia/Yugoslavia
Gold medals: 5
Silver medals: 3
Bronze medals: 2

Point proven, case closed

I like that you chose the world championships instead of the olympics

It'd be a better comparison if you did medals per capita.

No. Being wealthy and having a large population is a good thing, as good as doing well in sports...

[Sarmatian]

I like that you chose the world championships instead of the olympics

85% of those medals were won by a girl looking good with a ball and similar sporting events. Not really indicative. So, let's discount the events where the family of those competing outnumber the audience, shall we...
Plus, prior to every olympics US have a tendency to send guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money and offer Okenchukwu Nokoronkwo hundreds of thousands of dollars to take US citizenship and compete under US flag.

No. Being wealthy and having a large population is a good thing, as good as doing well in sports...

It is, no doubt about it, but taking into account size of the country and the wealth, you guys suck big time in sports.

[Strike For The South]

It is, no doubt about it, but taking into account size of the country and the wealth, you guys suck big time in sports.

85% of those medals were won by a girl looking good with a ball and similar sporting events. Not really indicative. So, let's discount the events where the family of those competing outnumber the audience, shall we...

So they don't count?

Plus, prior to every olympics US have a tendency to send guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money and offer Okenchukwu Nokoronkwo hundreds of thousands of dollars to take US citizenship and compete under US flag.

You got a link for that sweetie?

The really hiliraous part of all this is our best athletes play American football. So if anything we're at a disadvantage.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

85% of those medals were won by a girl looking good with a ball and similar sporting events. Not really indicative. So, let's discount the events where the family of those competing outnumber the audience, shall we...
Plus, prior to every olympics US have a tendency to send guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money and offer Okenchukwu Nokoronkwo hundreds of thousands of dollars to take US citizenship and compete under US flag.

Sexist

Seems like the right moment to remind you all that the US has won the world cup twice before.

It is, no doubt about it, but taking into account size of the country and the wealth, you guys suck big time in sports.

This is like a 5 foot tall guy saying to a 7 foot tall guy "well taking into account your height, you suck at basketball."

[Sarmatian]

So they don't count?

They do count, but it gives them perspective, doesn't it.

You got a link for that sweetie?

Sorry, can't be bothered to look. It's what you see if you watch - And now in the track 3 athlete from the US, Abdihakem Abdirahman, born in Somalia.

From the top of my head, Preki and Monika Seles come to mind.

Sexist

Seems like the right moment to remind you all that the US has won the world cup twice before.

Which sport we're talking about now?

This is like a 5 foot tall guy saying to a 7 foot tall guy "well taking into account your height, you suck at basketball."

No that's more like a 0.1 foot tall guy scoring 15 points and 7 foot guy scoring 16 points and 7 foot guy saying "I scored more than you".

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Which sport we're talking about now?

Soccer.

No that's more like a 0.1 foot tall guy scoring 15 points and 7 foot guy scoring 16 points and 7 foot guy saying "I scored more than you".

More like the short guy scoring 2 points and the tall guy scoring 2514 points...

[Strike For The South]

They do count, but it gives them perspective, doesn't it.



Sorry, can't be bothered to look. It's what you see if you watch - And now in the track 3 athlete from the US, Abdihakem Abdirahman, born in Somalia.

From the top of my head, Preki and Monika Seles come to mind.
".

All the people you mentioned are immagrants. Here in America Immagrants are citizens to.

Not to mention, 90% of the medal winners are "americans" (by your definintion)

So let me get this straight America should be penalized for
-Being Big
-Having a counntry that is appealing
-Being able to speacilize in sports.


Once again, America really doesn't care about any other sport besides our football.

The world plays Americas second string and still gets whipped around everywwhere.

The rest of you suck.

[Louis VI the Fat]

http://www.medalspercapita.com/weighted.html





Edit:

Hah!


Olympic medals per capita:

30 France 70 63,753,140 910,759
32 Germany 83 82,191,000 990,253
34 Canada 33 33,353,600 1,010,715
35 Russian Fed. 139 141,888,900 1,020,783
37 Italy 54 59,619,290 1,104,060
38 Ireland 4 4,422,100 1,105,525
40 Spain 38 46,063,000 1,212,184
44 United States 220 304,935,000 1,386,068
46 Poland 22 38,115,967 1,732,543
51 Belgium 5 10,584,534 2,116,906
52 Portugal 5 10,623,000 2,124,600
56 Serbia 4 9,858,000 2,464,500

[Strike For The South]

http://www.medalspercapita.com/weighted.html

Once again. Our second string in sports that play second fiddle to football.

We are beating you lot with 1 hand while cheking football stats with the other.

You Europeans can spin it anyway you'd like.

Hell I have no doubt I'd be an olympic shotputter had I not played Nose gaurd.

[Pannonian]

http://www.medalspercapita.com/weighted.html

Olympic medals per capita:

30 France 70 63,753,140 910,759
32 Germany 83 82,191,000 990,253
34 Canada 33 33,353,600 1,010,715
35 Russian Fed. 139 141,888,900 1,020,783
37 Italy 54 59,619,290 1,104,060
38 Ireland 4 4,422,100 1,105,525
40 Spain 38 46,063,000 1,212,184
44 United States 220 304,935,000 1,386,068
46 Poland 22 38,115,967 1,732,543
51 Belgium 5 10,584,534 2,116,906
52 Portugal 5 10,623,000 2,124,600
56 Serbia 4 9,858,000 2,464,500

22 Great Britain 98 60,975,000 622,193
23 Croatia 7 4,555,000 650,714
24 Czech Republic 15 10,403,136 693,542
25 Korea 67 48,224,000 719,761
26 Kazakhstan 21 15,422,000 734,380
27 Finland 7 5,318,105 759,729
28 Switzerland 10 7,637,300 763,730
29 Azerbaijan 11 8,467,000 769,727
30 France 70 63,753,140 910,759

[Sarmatian]

All the people you mentioned are immagrants. Here in America Immagrants are citizens to.

They're not immigrants. Predrag Radosavljevic was a professional footballer, so he was just working in America. He's no more immigrant than Fernando Torres is immigrant in England.

Same with Monika Seles.

Both of them were athletes born and trained elsewhere who were offered citizenship because they were better than anything America had to offer at the moment.

Soccer.

Two world cups? Not really, no.

More like the short guy scoring 2 points and the tall guy scoring 2514 points...

actually it's 96 to 2514. And most of our medals are in pathetic events not many athletes compete. Jasna Sekaric won like 10 of those 96 in shooting with various weapons. Olympic medals don't mean much, except for boasting, that's why I prefer world or continental championships and in sports where there's actually some competition.



EDIT: My good friend Louis proves the point for me. You guys are in the 44th place per capita. If someone takes into consideration GDP and how much is spent in sports, you're perilously close to being relegated :D

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Two world cups? Not really, no.

Yes. Two. I think we came in third place a couple years as well.

EDIT: My good friend Louis proves the point for me. You guys are in the 44th place per capita. If someone takes into consideration GDP and how much is spent in sports, you're perilously close to being relegated :D

Try that argument on the next girl you meet. "Taking into consideration my height..."

[Gregoshi]

Let me contribute some to global warming...

Plus, prior to every olympics US have a tendency to send guy in a suit with a briefcase full of money and offer Okenchukwu Nokoronkwo hundreds of thousands of dollars to take US citizenship and compete under US flag.

Actually, we ask for:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore...

Heck, no wonder we are only 44th. We need to change that plaque.

[Pannonian]

From Major Star:

Private Baldrick: [Blackadder has kicked Baldrick] You mustn't do that to me, sir, 'cause that is a bourgeois act of repression, sir!
Captain Blackadder: What?
Private Baldrick: Haven't you smelt it, sir? There's something afoot in the wind! The huddled masses, yearning to be free!
Captain Blackadder: Baldrick, have you been in the diesel oil again?
Private Baldrick: No sir, I've been supping the milk of freedom! Already our Russian comrades are poised on the brink of revolution. And here too, sir, the huddled wossnames - such as myself, sir - are ready to throw off the hated oppressors like you and the lieutenant! Present company excepted, sir.
Captain Blackadder: Go and clean out the latrines.
Private Baldrick: Yes, sir! Right away, sir!