XXXth Olympiad - London

[Angel4576]

George gets two songs, and Bowie gets a 10 second montage? WTF?

 

[Danny99]

Okay, Russell Brand may save this.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Also, the fact simply remains, that the USA is a very large country. The USA has slightly more citizens, than France, Germany, UK, Italy and Spain combined...

As far as the greater population, that also explains the increased budget for Olympic spending. Spending on each athlete is actually less here than in many other countries, though.

I was curious about the number of medals vs. population of the country, and I found this resource.

Normalizing the medal rank vs. population, the top ten rows of the medal table will look like this.

1. Grenada
2. Jamaica
3. Bahamas
4. New Zealand
5. Trinidad and Tobago
6. Montenegro
7. Cyprus
8. Hungary
9. Slovenia
10. Denmark

And a few more you might find interesting:

11. Australia
20. UK
22. Ireland
34. Russia
35. Germany
36. France
40. Italy
45. Canada
47. USA
73. China

Pretty different, eh?

 

[Shaytan]

George gets two songs, and Bowie gets a 10 second montage? WTF?

A 10 seconds montage that looked like "remember those who left us this year".

 

[Angel4576]

George gets two songs, and Bowie gets a 10 second montage? WTF?

A 10 seconds montage that looked like "remember those who left us this year".

That's true - I hope someone's checking that he's alright!

 

[That Weirdo In The Corner]

Jessie J in a Rolls Royce, you can't beat those German cars

 

[Lonemagpie]

Annie Lennox was great

It's getting OK now - but just so long as that cunt McCartney doesn't fucking show up and kill the show-

Oh, wait, that cunt Russell "get the wardrobe girl to show me her tits or I won't do my scene" Brand has just turned up to kill the show

 

[Relayer1]

Was it just me that was disappointed when Annie Lennox was on the ship ? I thought it was going to be KLF doing What Time Is Love !

 

[Lonemagpie]

Needs more Daleks, of course.

 

[Relayer1]

Aaaaaarrggghhh - Spice Girls !

 

[Danny99]

And now kids, these are the Spice Girls, your parent's version of Justin Bieber.

 

[That Weirdo In The Corner]

Spice Girls, This is like your mum dancing at some relatives wedding

 

[Angel4576]

I'll tell you what I really, really want - you lot to fook right back off in those cabs!

 

[That Weirdo In The Corner]

Boris Johnson Dancing

 

[Lonemagpie]

Boris dad-dancing! Argh! Need more drink!

 

[Angel4576]

Boris embarrassing himself at closing ceremonies is become a sort of tradition....

 

[Lonemagpie]

Who the fuck is Beady Eye? At least I've *heard* of everybody else so far... Stop singing through your nose, cunt!

 

[Relayer1]

I'll tell you what I really, really want - you lot to fook right back off in those cabs!

^ And the last Gold of the games goes to this post !

 

[That Weirdo In The Corner]

Did someone ask Siri for the weather?

 

[Pingfah]

An even better question is, who are Beady Eye, and why are they singing Noel Gallagher songs?