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Olympic Games Update

Paris looks like it's going to be good, integrating their landmarks into their hosting (volleyball in front of the Eiffel tower, Equestrian at Versailles etc)
 
Goodbye Olympics. See you in 3 years, hopefully with full crowds.

Arigato Gozaimasita Tokyo.
 
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Al Bangor said:
After the women's volleyball team win against Brazil, Team USA finished the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with 39 gold medals, placing them at the very top of the list. Altogether, the team won 113 medals.

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www.theguardian.com

The once-great US men’s track team failed to win a solo gold in Tokyo. Why?

The US men failed to win an individual gold for the first time ever at a fully attended Olympics. What went wrong?
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

But...
 
www.usatoday.com

Who led Tokyo Olympics medal count? Here's how each country performed at the Summer Games

Which countries won the most medals at the Tokyo Olympics? The U.S., China, ROC, Great Britain and Japan are finished at the top of the standings.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com
  • United States: 113 medals (39 gold, 41 silver, 33 bronze)
  • China: 88 medals (38 gold, 32 silver, 18 bronze)
  • ROC: 71 medals (20 gold, 28 silver, 23 bronze)
  • Great Britain: 65 medals (22 gold, 21 silver, 22 bronze)
  • Japan: 58 medals (27 gold, 14 silver, 17 bronze)
  • Australia: 46 medals (17 gold, 7 silver, 22 bronze)
  • Italy: 40 medals (10 gold, 10 silver, 20 bronze)
  • Germany: 37 medals (10 gold, 11 silver, 16 bronze)
  • Netherlands: 36 medals (10 gold, 12 silver, 14 bronze)
  • France: 33 medals (10 gold, 12 silver, 11 bronze)
  • Canada: 24 medals (7 gold, 6 silver, 11 bronze)
  • Brazil: 21 medals (7 gold, 6 silver, 8 bronze)
  • New Zealand: 20 medals (7 gold, 6 silver, 7 bronze)
  • Hungary: 20 medals (6 gold, 7 silver, 7 bronze)
  • South Korea: 20 medals (6 gold, 4 silver, 10 bronze)
  • Ukraine: 19 medals (1 gold, 6 silver, 12 bronze)
  • Spain: 17 medals (3 gold, 8 silver, 6 bronze)
  • Cuba: 15 medals (7 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze)
  • Poland: 14 medals (4 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze)
  • Switzerland: 13 medals (3 gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze)
  • Turkey: 13 medals (2 gold, 2 silver, 9 bronze)
  • Chinese Taipei: 12 medals (2 gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze)
  • Czech Republic: 11 medals (4 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze)
  • Denmark: 11 medals (3 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze)
  • Kenya: 10 medals (4 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Jamaica: 9 medals (4 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze)
  • Sweden: 9 medals (3 gold, 6 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Serbia: 9 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze)
  • Norway: 8 medals (4 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Croatia: 8 medals (3 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Georgia: 8 medals (2 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Kazakhstan: 8 medals (0 gold, 0 silver, 8 bronze)
  • Iran: 7 medals (3 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Belgium: 7 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)
  • Belarus: 7 medals (1 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze)
  • India: 7 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze)
  • Austria: 7 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze)
  • Azerbaijan: 7 medals (0 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze)
  • Bulgaria: 6 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Hong Kong: 5 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Egypt: 6 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze)
  • Slovenia: 5 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Uzbekistan: 5 medals (3 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Indonesia: 5 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)
  • Colombia: 5 medals (0 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Dominican Republic: 5 medals (0 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Greece: 4 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Uganda: 4 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Ireland: 4 medals (2 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Israel: 4 medals (2 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Romania: 4 medals (1 gold, 3 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Venezuela: 4 medals (1 gold, 3 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Philippines: 4 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Slovakia: 4 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Ethiopia: 4 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Portugal: 4 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Armenia: 4 medals (0 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Mongolia: 4 medals (0 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)
  • Mexico: 4 medals (0 gold, 0 silver, 4 bronze)
  • Ecuador: 3 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Qatar: 3 medals (2 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • South Africa: 3 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Kyrgyzstan: 3 medals: (0 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Argentina: 3 medals (0 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
  • San Marino: 3 medals (0 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Bahamas: 2 medals (2 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Kosovo: 2 medals (2 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Tunisia: 2 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Estonia: 2 medals (1 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Fiji: 2 medals (1 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Latvia: 2 medals (1 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Thailand: 2 medals (1 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Jordan: 2 medals (0 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Malaysia: 2 medals (0 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Nigeria: 2 medals (0 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Finland: 2 medals (0 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Bermuda: 1 medal (1 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Morocco: 1 medal (1 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Puerto Rico: 1 medal (1 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Bahrain: 1 medal (0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Lithuania: 1 medal (0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Namibia: 1 medal (0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
  • North Macedonia: 1 medal (0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Saudi Arabia: 1 medal (0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Turkmenistan: 1 medal (0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
  • Botswana: 1 medal (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Burkina Faso: 1 medal (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Ghana: 1 medal (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Grenada: 1 medal (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Ivory Coast: 1 medal (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Kuwait: 1 medal (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Moldova: 1 medal (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Syria: 1 medal (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
 
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Reiser99 said:
Found this interesting from a GB perspective.

www.bbc.co.uk

Tokyo Olympics: A look at how Team GB fared sport-by-sport compared to their funding.

How Great Britain fared sport-by-sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games relative to their funding.
www.bbc.co.uk

Canoeing and Rowing definitely not pulling their weight. Archery seems way overfunded too.
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Some of it is relative 16 events in canoeing of which only 4 are slalom where we traditionally earn our medals compared to sprint. Loosing the Men's C-2 (even if it was for the Women's C-1) didn't help either. Honestly I think slalom canoeing gets utterly shafted by the lack of available medals.

I also imagine its quite an expensive sport to run, its weird it gets that much funding though.

Also with funding loss to Paris, its only a 3 year cycle this time what happened in the past year are they on Paris money already? Or is it real terms increase? Pentathlon getting screwed though.

Badminton can also be chucked in with Archery the real question with funding is do we have genuine prospects like Gymnastics and Track Cycling (who slightly under preformed compare to recent years but are in slight transition) or are they just eating up money to say we took part. Rowing needs a hard look at itself it is one thing to be in transition another to miss out so often.
 
Is that funding elite athlete specific, all government funding for the given sport or a mix of both?

If it was anything but the former it makes sense that a sport like rowing is highly funded just for the accessibility at grass roots. Having and tending a few sheds, life vests and boats on every river in the UK will get far more kids involved in sport than pumping more money into modern pentathlon to chase medals, especially considering I doubt any modern pentathlon athletes are coming from working class backgrounds. From the outside looking in GBNI seem to have a fairly good balance of chasing medals but also throwing money at the most accessible sports knowing it'll pay dividends. It's also a case of being up against the rest of the world and there will be times where you just lose the genetic lottery.

We use a similar model here* but obviously the reduction in population makes the focus more on funding areas where we are getting athletes into the games along with the accessible sports. Medal winners outside of boxing are generally the outliers.

*Following the exposure of corruption in our OC.
 
Le Frére Alpha said:
Is that funding elite athlete specific, all government funding for the given sport or a mix of both?

If it was anything but the former it makes sense that a sport like rowing is highly funded just for the accessibility at grass roots. Having and tending a few sheds, life vests and boats on every river in the UK will get far more kids involved in sport than pumping more money into modern pentathlon to chase medals, especially considering I doubt any modern pentathlon athletes are coming from working class backgrounds. From the outside looking in GBNI seem to have a fairly good balance of chasing medals but also throwing money at the most accessible sports knowing it'll pay dividends. It's also a case of being up against the rest of the world and there will be times where you just lose the genetic lottery.

We use a similar model here* but obviously the reduction in population makes the focus more on funding areas where we are getting athletes into the games along with the accessible sports. Medal winners outside of boxing are generally the outliers.

*Following the exposure of corruption in our OC.
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"The investments are made through Athlete Performance Awards which are paid directly to the athlete and contribute to their living and sporting costs[7] and through central funding to sport National Governing Bodies to invest in coaches, facilities and sports science and medicine."

Basically it is our elite level funding, most of the grass roots stuff see very little government funding. It kind of works from an athletics perspective but only due to the hard work at participation levels. Parkrun has massively increased the amount of people partaking in grassroots middle distance running, local clubs arrange and run amateur races and it is their main source of funding as they get very little from England Athletics in fact the vast majority of membership fees just go to admin costs. Still once you have that level you can find very quickly the 'elite' athletes participating and get hoovered up into the main system.
 
ncurd said:
"The investments are made through Athlete Performance Awards which are paid directly to the athlete and contribute to their living and sporting costs[7] and through central funding to sport National Governing Bodies to invest in coaches, facilities and sports science and medicine."

Basically it is our elite level funding, most of the grass roots stuff see very little government funding. It kind of works from an athletics perspective but only due to the hard work at participation levels. Parkrun has massively increased the amount of people partaking in grassroots middle distance running, local clubs arrange and run amateur races and it is their main source of funding as they get very little from England Athletics in fact the vast majority of membership fees just go to admin costs. Still once you have that level you can find very quickly the 'elite' athletes participating and get hoovered up into the main system.
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Ok, that's space age stuff compared to here. Thought it was strange that you were being very medal focused but that is exactly the point! Must be a bloody nightmare trying to divvy it out with everyone lobbying.
 
Al Bangor said:
www.usatoday.com

Who led Tokyo Olympics medal count? Here's how each country performed at the Summer Games

Which countries won the most medals at the Tokyo Olympics? The U.S., China, ROC, Great Britain and Japan are finished at the top of the standings.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com
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Just putting the list in the correct order for you.
olympics.com

Olympic Medal Count | Tokyo 2020 Olympics (Jul 23-Aug 8, 2021)

The official website for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, providing the latest news, event information, Games Vision, and venue plans.
olympics.com olympics.com
Rank Team Gold Silver Bronze Total USA's Ranking

1 United States of America 39 41 33 113 1

2 People's Republic of China 38 32 18 88 2

3 Japan 27 14 17 58 5

4 Great Britain 22 21 22 65 4

5 ROC 20 28 23 71 3

6 Australia 17 7 22 46 6

7 Netherlands 10 12 14 36 9

8 France 10 12 11 33 10

9 Germany 10 11 16 37 8

10 Italy 10 10 20 40 7

11 Canada 7 6 11 24 11

12 Brazil 7 6 8 21 12

13 New Zealand 7 6 7 20 13

14 Cuba 7 3 5 15 18

15 Hungary 6 7 7 20 13

16 Republic of Korea 6 4 10 20 13

17 Poland 4 5 5 14 19

18 Czech Republic 4 4 3 11 23

19 Kenya 4 4 2 10 25

20 Norway 4 2 2 8 29

21 Jamaica 4 1 4 9 26

22 Spain 3 8 6 17 17

23 Sweden 3 6 0 9 26

24 Switzerland 3 4 6 13 20

25 Denmark 3 4 4 11 23

26 Croatia 3 3 2 8 29

27 Islamic Republic of Iran 3 2 2 7 33

28 Serbia 3 1 5 9 26

29 Belgium 3 1 3 7 33

30 Bulgaria 3 1 2 6 39

31 Slovenia 3 1 1 5 42

32 Uzbekistan 3 0 2 5 42

33 Georgia 2 5 1 8 29

34 Chinese Taipei 2 4 6 12 22

35 Turkey 2 2 9 13 20

36 Greece 2 1 1 4 47

36 Uganda 2 1 1 4 47

38 Ecuador 2 1 0 3 60

39 Ireland 2 0 2 4 47

39 Israel 2 0 2 4 47

41 Qatar 2 0 1 3 60

42 Bahamas 2 0 0 2 66

42 Kosovo 2 0 0 2 66

44 Ukraine 1 6 12 19 16

45 Belarus 1 3 3 7 33

46 Romania 1 3 0 4 47

46 Venezuela 1 3 0 4 47

48 India 1 2 4 7 33

49 Hong Kong, China 1 2 3 6 39

50 Philippines 1 2 1 4 47

50 Slovakia 1 2 1 4 47

52 South Africa 1 2 0 3 60

53 Austria 1 1 5 7 33

54 Egypt 1 1 4 6 39

55 Indonesia 1 1 3 5 42

56 Ethiopia 1 1 2 4 47

56 Portugal 1 1 2 4 47

58 Tunisia 1 1 0 2 66

59 Estonia 1 0 1 2 66

59 Fiji 1 0 1 2 66

59 Latvia 1 0 1 2 66

59 Thailand 1 0 1 2 66

63 Bermuda 1 0 0 1 77

63 Morocco 1 0 0 1 77

63 Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1 77

66 Colombia 0 4 1 5 42

67 Azerbaijan 0 3 4 7 33

68 Dominican Republic 0 3 2 5 42

69 Armenia 0 2 2 4 47

70 Kyrgyzstan 0 2 1 3 60

71 Mongolia 0 1 3 4 47

72 Argentina 0 1 2 3 60

72 San Marino 0 1 2 3 60

74 Jordan 0 1 1 2 66

74 Malaysia 0 1 1 2 66

74 Nigeria 0 1 1 2 66

77 Bahrain 0 1 0 1 77

77 Saudi Arabia 0 1 0 1 77

77 Lithuania 0 1 0 1 77

77 North Macedonia 0 1 0 1 77

77 Namibia 0 1 0 1 77

77 Turkmenistan 0 1 0 1 77

83 Kazakhstan 0 0 8 8 29

84 Mexico 0 0 4 4 47

85 Finland 0 0 2 2 66

86 Botswana 0 0 1 1 77

86 Burkina Faso 0 0 1 1 77

86 Côte d'Ivoire 0 0 1 1 77

86 Ghana 0 0 1 1 77

86 Grenada 0 0 1 1 77

86 Kuwait 0 0 1 1 77

86 Republic of Moldova 0 0 1 1 77

86 Syrian Arab Republic 0 0 1 1 77
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Le Frére Alpha said:
Ok, that's space age stuff compared to here. Thought it was strange that you were being very medal focused but that is exactly the point! Must be a bloody nightmare trying to divvy it out with everyone lobbying.
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We also move athletes quite happily, Alex Yee (Silver medallist triathlon, Gold mixed relay) was a pretty darn good runner setting the second fastest ever parkrun and was just short of U-23 British record. Recognising whilst pretty good he was never really going to compete for top honours he was encouraged to move to triathlon. Its possibly why we win most medals in different sports many of our elite athletes have a background in something else but move somewhere 'less' competitive. As well as embracing tech one of the reasons why I think track cycling was so dominant coming from us was we focused on that over road cycling where the money was and therefore the best athletes. People involved in cycling will likely have better insight.

Basically the '96 Olympics in Atlanta was a mid-way point in a huge shakeup with our funding and bringing in the National Lottery which pumps a lot into all groups (our rugby teams heavily relied on it). By Beijing (3 years after being awarded 2012) we had more than tripled our medal count. We've now maintained that level of success from 2012 over a 9 year period. There a re probably a lot of critsisms for our systems but it has showed to breed success.

news.sky.com

Tokyo Olympics: The alternative medal tables

A country's economy is strongly linked to the number of medals it can win, so can we measure a win at the Olympics another way?
news.sky.com news.sky.com

We come pretty high on medals per population and medals per gdp were hitting in our weight class. So were well funded and great at sourcing talent with a 'limited population'. This of course a limited population in extremely sport obsessed country.
 

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