It's got to be the first time a nation has more gold than silver and bronze combined.

I was talking about overall- all medals combined.

As of right now, US is first with 82 medals. China's pretty close behind though.

Correct.

Russia? Fourth? They suck at everything I see them in...

It's got nothing to do with that er...problem they had with Georgia...right?

Edit: Playing badminton in office cubicles =D

lols that was ace.

Bwahahah! :P

wrote:It's got nothing to do with that er...problem they had with Georgia...right?

I don't see how it would. Fighting wouldn't affect their medal count, unless the athletes are that upset about it.

Ah yeah that's true. Russia's reputation might go down a bit though.

They're reputation won't, but they're relationship with NATO probably will.

Well, their relationship with the whole world seems to be pretty bleak right now.

Ah...our women's water polo team got the silver medal. I must say, the Dutch team was pretty good. (Only saw the few first minutes of the first quarter though.)

*mutters* BMX looks pretty fun right now...a little. It looks so dangerous though...

Just watched Britain get gold in a very close race in the Star sailing. Great stuff.

Apparently there was one event in the Olympics where the Georgians were directly up against the Russians: women's beach volleyball (the Georgians won).

Did anyone pull out any pistols? :P

Heh, Canada got gold in equestrian...how unexpected. Didn't know UK injuries would be that bad. :D

*Not a huge horse fan*

I'm just a bit worried that Russia will have another coup attempt (or more than attempt), like back in '91.

Don't think so, but Putin might resign/be asked to step down from his puppet master position. At least they're pulling out troops...

We could learn something from them. =P

Iran Tries to ull a Kennedy

Join the club, Iran.

Dansariki wrote:*Not a huge horse fan*

I'm just a bit worried that Russia will have another coup attempt (or more than attempt), like back in '91.

Me neither. I'm just glad we got gold.

Didn't the Soviet Union mainly collapse because they didn't interact with capitalism? And then the coup happened?

I think the coup happened before the collapse, which probably happened because of capitalism. Many of the "satellite states" realized that they could declare independence from USSR when Gorbachev came back to Moscow after the conspirators got arrested...

It's USA vs. Argentina for the men's basketball match...and USA is leading as usual. -_-

Damn glad they are, they were embarrassing in Athens.
Basically, Gorbachev's reforms spiralled out of control, he lost the presidential spot he'd created, and then the coup attempt made it hit the fan.
Abridged version.