How many gold medals did the usa win in the olympics of 1980?
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Why USA wins most of the gold medals at olympics?
There are two key factors in winning medals: Population (making it more likely that a world-class athlete will be born in your country) Money (it's expensive to train for most sports, and the richer countries will have better training opportunities for their people). So, if you look at the countries with a large population (200 million or more) and are rich, there's only one country on that list: the USA. So, while there may be a potential world-class athlete born in India, the odds against him being identified as such and given the training needed to get him to his full potential are slim.
Will China beat out the US with the most olympics medals because Chinese Communism is superior to the US?
Most American debt is owed to the federal reserve in the amount of 6 trillion dollars. Also China depends on the US, If the United States placed a trade embargo on China then the Chinese government would go to ruins and the true Chinese government in Taiwan would takeover and the world would be a better place. Medal wise, the US will come out on top even though China's athletes were practically bred to compete and live in government facilities so they can focus on training. China's athletes are basically government representatives trying to show that China has made progress.
Conservatives are you disappointed that an African American won a Gold Medal in the Winter Olympics?
no not at all ,i am proud of him at least he deserved his prize unlike someone else that people feel a tingle up and down their leg when his name is mentioned. oh wow i forgot he was black for a minute thumbs down? you do not want me to be proud of him? oh wait you must be one of those people who thinks we should be ashamed of the u.s.? sorry not me i am a patriot and love this great nation sorry
What do the medals go by? Full Count? Or Gold Medal Count?
The IOC doesn't count the medals at all. They just hold the Olympics and hand out the medals. It's the media that does the medal counting, and how they are counted depends on how their athletes are doing. How they're counted this year depends on whether you're outside the US, or inside the US. American media are consoling themselves over how far behind the US is in gold medals, so they show the small US lead in overall medals instead, pointedly ignoring that silver and bronze medals are not nearly as great a prize as gold medals. And papering over how many US athletes don't seem to mind not getting gold, or are even happy to get bronze. Most listings count gold medals, if you want to count silver and bronze too then they should be weighted. A conservative weighting system would give 3 to gold, 2 to silver and 1 to bronze. Closer to reality would be 5 for gold, 3 for silver and 1 for bronze. That would avoid embarrassing medal count lists where a country with 11 bronzes is ahead of one with 10 golds - that's 0 olympic champions beating 10 olympic champions. I think the "medal count" thing goes back to the cold war olympics where the US was able to achieve better results by sending a lot athletes, they weren't able to beat the USSR in either gold or overall medals but they did better in overall medals than in gold.
There is going to be second one now after Bronze by Sakshi Malik and it would be a GOLD by P V Sindhu and here is the reason why:If you see the record below ( as per wiki ) , Sindhu have defeated Carolina Marin twice already so there shouldn't be any winners mental block where opponent is invincible for you till date.Then Marin’s career record is 239 wins, 74 losses (Winning percentage 76.36% ), and considering she has won 5 matched till now in this Olympics, she should loose in this match. ( I am going to omit Sindhu’s win-loss record intentionally to save my mind from stress )As India is credited with given ZERO to world, I am going to put this zero behind Marin’s current world rank, and she would go below rank of Sindhu ( now my optimism is creating illogic but who cares )Carolina Marin has same initial as mine ( C M T), which means…umm..forget the logic, Sindhu is going to win. I just hope universe is busy in conspiring for Sindhu.Best of luck to Sindhu!!!
A2A: It would have definitely been “possible” for Phelps to have won 9 Gold Medals at the Beijing Olympics, but each time you add an event to your schedule you are making it much more difficult for all of your other races.Phelps’ achievement in Beijing was outstanding for a number of reasons. First of all, to be the best in the world in 5 different individual events is an INSANE achievement in and of itself. Most swimmers specialize in three events during college, and usually they are not good enough to make the Olympics in all 3 even when they do specialize. Being a part of all three relays is also pretty incredible when you factor in all of the other races that Phelps swam. Winning gold in all 8 of these races adds a remarkable layer of accomplishment that has never been matched (and my guess is that it will not be matched for a long time).Now add on another event on top of that… It makes everything a whole lot more difficult. The 100 Free is probably the most plausible event for Phelps to add to his schedule, but it creates a few small problems (in addition to the fact that Phelps winning the 100 fr would be HIGHLY unlikely). If he swam the 100 fr, the semi-finals creates a triple because it coincides with the finals for the 200 fly (Phelps’ best race) and the 4x200 fr relay. The finals has a back to back double (almost NO time to warm down) with the 200 IM semi-final as well. In addition to the triple and the back to back double, he also has to WIN the 100 fr, which is a very tough event that requires a lot of mental focus and physical exertion.SO, to answer your question, it would be possible for someone to do this, and Phelps could have achieved this by adding the 100 fr in Beijing. It would be VERY difficult because you have to swim that seemingly insignificant race three separate times (Prelims, Semi-finals, Finals) in a competition where everyone is swimming their best and trying to win, AND you have to be the fastest to swim it on the third time (Finals), AND you would still have to win all of your other races (that you also swim at least twice, if not three times each).Edited: Mistakenly wrote the first answer about the 200 fr (as referenced in the original question) instead of the 100 fr. Thanks to Jerry Ye for pointing that out
Who's Olympian with the most number of medals?
"Larisa LATYNINA " Most Medals In History with a total of "31 medals" 18 Olympic medals Gold: 9 Silver: 5 Bronze: 4 13 World Championships medals Gold: 8 Silver: 4 Bronze: 1 Ukrainian gymnast Larysa Latynina holds several important Olympic records. - She is the only athlete in any sport to have won eighteen career medals; - she is one of only four athletes to have won nine gold medals; - she is the only athlete to have won fourteen medals in individual events - and she is one of only three women to have won the same Summer Olympics event three times.
It’s false that shorter gymnasts have a general advantage in gymnastics. Here are some counter-examples:Darya Dmitriyeva[1], rhythmic gymnast, 2012 Olympics all-around silver medalist, is 1.73 (5′8″)(Darya Dmitriyeva - London 2012 Olympics - individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics qualifications - Wembley Arena)(Darya Dmitriyeva in a non-regulatory attire)Yevgeniya Kanayeva[2], rhythmic gymnast, two-time Olympic all-around gold medalist (2008 and 2012), is 171 cm (5′7“1⁄2)(Yevgeniya Kanayeva, unknown competition)(A hair stylist, a make-up artist, a fashion stylist, a cinematographer and a photographer’s interpretation of Zhenya holding a dead rope)Liubov Charkashyna[3], rhythmic gymnast, 2012 Olympics all-around bronze medalist, is 1.73 (5′8″)(Liubov Charkashyna, 2011 Montpellier Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships)(Liubov Charkashyna enters the carpet, menacingly - photo: Olivier Aubrais)Anna Bessonova[4], rhythmic gymnast, two-time Olympic all-around bronze medalist (2004 and 2008), is 174 cm (5′9″)(Anna Bessonova is a giantess - you can estimate her height from this picture: she’s two times a basketball backboard, 4 times a regular adult human being and 6 times a young girl - this picture was taken from wikipedia, so you can trust it!)(Anna Bessonova, Athens 2004 Olympics)Kateryna Serebrianska[5], rhythmic gymnast, 1996 Olympics all-around gold medalist, is 178 cm (5′10″)(Kateryna Serebrianska may be the explanation for the Rhythmic Gymnastics floor being 1 meter wider than the Artistic Gymnastic floor)(Kateryna Serebrianska, glamour on the carpet in Atlanta 1996)Olena Vitrychenko[6], rhythmic gymnast, 1996 Olympics all-around bronze medalist, is 172.00 cm (5′8″)(Olena Vitrychenko)(Olena Vitrychenko - when she and Serebrianska were active the glamourization of rhythmic gymnastics wasn’t raging yet)Not to mention Joanna Mitrosz[7], who took part in the 2008 Olympics qualifications but didn’t advance to the finals. She is 1.81 m (5′11″).(Joanna Mitrosz, gold medal in… tallness)So the tallest rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the Olympic Games is Kateryna Serebrianska.The “short stature is an advantage” concept is true only in Artistic Gymnastics. The author of the question most probably had that kind of gymnastics in mind but the assumption is false is general.Thanks for the A2A, Lauren.Footnotes[1] Darya Dmitriyeva[2] Yevgeniya Kanayeva[3] Liubov Charkashyna[4] Anna Bessonova[5] Kateryna Serebrianska[6] Olena Vitrychenko[7] Joanna Mitrosz