Medals

[FrankelSaysRelax]

I thought someone ought to keep a medal tally, particularly as Team GB have just picked up their first medal - a Silver in the women's road race.

Current Standings

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

China 5 1 2 8
Italy 2 2 2 6
USA 2 2 2 6
Brazil 1 1 1 3
South Korea 1 1 1 3
Netherlands 1 1 0 2
Russia 1 0 1 2
Kazakhstan 1 0 0 1
Australia 1 0 0 1
Japan 0 2 1 3
Great Britain 0 1 0 1
Poland 0 1 0 1
Colombia 0 1 0 1
France 0 1 0 1
Romania 0 1 0 1
Belgium 0 0 1 1
Hungary 0 0 1 1
Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1
Serbia 0 0 1 1
Slovakia 0 0 1 1
Ukraine 0 0 1 1
North Korea 0 0 1 1
Norway 0 0 1 1

As at 4pm 29 July 2012

Little stat for you.

This is BEFORE Jess Ennis has gone, so in a few mins this may have changed slightly, but its still interesting.

The USA and China have more golds than us. They also have more people.

Its currently working out at

USA
24 Golds
Population 314,000,000
Which equals 76 Gold medals per billion people.

China
23 Golds

Population 1,300,000,000
Which equals 18 Gold per billion people.

GB
11 Golds
Population 62,000,000
Which equals 177 Gold per billion

This makes us currently 10 times more successful than China and twice as successful than the US.

HmmThinkingAboutIt, I think I love you. DS actually really does, is off to share stats with FB.

Woooo! Go Jess!

12 Gold and counting!

We could get another 2 tonight in Long Jump and 10,000m

Grrreeeeggggg!

Gold number 13!

The Aussies can no longer say we only do well at the "sitting down" sports!

Mo Farah Gold in 10k. This is a good night

belgianbun we are already ahead of Beijing at the same point.

We got 47 medals overall there. And 17 of those were gold.

We are up to 14 Gold already!!!
Overall we have 28 so far. So 20 to go. Its very doable. I'd be more surprised if we didn't beat Beijing's gold count. And we have medals in 11 sports already (if you count the tennis) - so just one more sport to get and sailing is looking very good for another.

We have good chances left in:
About 5 sailing classes
2 tennis (medals actually confirmed)
Possibles in individual gymnastics
Both individual and team dressage (and I think Show Jumping)
More to come in cycling
Mo Farah is in the 5km
Relays! (If we can get the baton round!)
Diving
Triathlon
And I've not even looked at how we are progressing in the team sports or the boxing!

Lets not count our tennis chickens until they are hatched, no matter how unlikely a disqualification seems at this stage.

But three golds tonight - one after the other like that - amazing!

FrankelSaysRelax the Aussies can't say much at all about these Olympics. They are having a total nightmare by their own standards. Only 1 gold so far. They have got 20 medals over all but they just don't seem to be able to get those golds. In Beijing they got 14 gold. I dread to think what the newspapers are like over there.

Oh I know Hmm, there will be some "interesting" discussions going on down under.

[contemplates emailing Sydney based cousin to wind her up a bit]

Apparently we're doing well in the boxing, with 4 men through to their respective quarter-finals and more still to fight.

Come on Sndy Murray tomorrow!!!!

Andy! Andy Murray!

[too much wine]

An update to the Team GB medals tally: total 29 (3rd place in the table)

Gold
Rowing: women's pairs
Cycling: men's time trial: Bradley Wiggins
Canoeing: men's slalom C2
Shooting: double trap: Peter Wilson
Cycling: men's team track sprint (new world record)
Rowing: women's double sculls
Cycling: men's team pursuit
Cycling: women's keirin: Victoria Pendleton
Rowing: men's four
Rowing: lightweight women's double sculls
Cycling: women's team pursuit
Athletics: women's heptathlon: Jessica Ennis
Athletics: men's long jump: Greg Rutherford
Athletics: men's 10,000m: Mo Farah

Silver
Cycling: women's road race: Lizzie Armitstead
Equestrian: eventing: team
Swimming: men's 200m breaststroke: Michael Jamieson
Rowing: men's lightweight four
Canoeing: men's slalom C2
Judo: women's under 78kg: Gemma Gibbons
Rowing: lightweight men's double sculls

Bronze
Swimming: women's 400m freestyle: Rebecca Adlington
Gymnastics: men's team, artistic
Cycling: men's time trial: Chris Froome
Rowing: men's eight
Rowing: men's coxless pairs
Rowing: men's single sculls: Alan Campbell
Judo: women's over 78kg: Karina Bryant
Swimming: women's 800m freestyle: Rebecca Adlington

I think today's serious chances are:

Tennis - Men's Singles & Mixed Doubles (both guaranteed Silver)
Sailing - 2 chances this afternoon
Cycling

We've got another medal, silver in sailing as far as I can tell (app not very forthcoming)

It is a silver - Men's Star. We were hoping for Gold as we were leading coming into the last race, but they had a terrible last race and Swedes nicked the Gold.

Gold in men's Finn , Ben Ainslie.

Following on from Hmmthinkingaboutit's post, this link shows medal tally by population, quite interesting.

If you look at my post (above) of Wed 01-Aug-12 at 21:23:29, you'll see that an interactive Alternative medals table (which let's you "score" not just for population, but also against freedom indices, debt levels and CO2 emissions levels).

Silver on pommel horse, was very very close though.