OLYMPIC GAMES 2016 - RIO DE JANEIRO

[ShoeFlo]

This afternoon our Handball men won the last medal for by beating with 31:25 in the Bronze match! Unfortunately I decided to watch an awful domestic football match instead of following our amazing handball team so I can't talk about the performance. The result looks amazing though. Beating Poland with +6 is quite an achievement. If we weren't so unlucky against France in semi final (when we conceded the deciding goal three seconds before the end) we could win gold today. We looked strong and mature enough to win the whole tournament but in Handball the little details decide between win or loss. I think now we can say that the Handball Euro's weren't just a coincident.. we are back in the top of the world and finally overcome our crisis! But that belongs to the Handball thread and not so much into this thread.

Considering that I was worried a long time and complained a lot, our medal record looks decent:
17 gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze.
Positive: This is the highest amount of golden medals after Atlanta 1996.. that's huge! 6 more gold medals than in London.
Good performance in Rowing, Canoe, Equestrian, Shooting, Ballsports (Football, Handball, Hockey, Table Tennis, Tennis, Beachvolleyball)

Negative: 42 medals is not enough for our ambitions... our Olympics team had the potential to win around 50 medals for sure but too many of our medal contenders were far away from their best. At least, 42 medals is one more than in Beijing 2008.
Disappointing performance in Swimming (disaster), Athletics (at least there were breakthroughs of some athletes who were in shadow of others before but in total we were rather bad), Fencing, Cycling, Judo

5th place in the medal table is pretty good. We have a big margin to our rivals Japan, France and Australia and we were close to beat Russia. I guess however that Russia is still too powerful despite many suspensions. We can't compete with them due to our miserable sports promotion.

 

[GermanBango]

This afternoon our Handball men won the last medal for by beating with 31:25 in the Bronze match! Unfortunately I decided to watch an awful domestic football match instead of following our amazing handball team so I can't talk about the performance. The result looks amazing though. Beating Poland with +6 is quite an achievement. If we weren't so unlucky against France in semi final (when we conceded the deciding goal three seconds before the end) we could win gold today. We looked strong and mature enough to win the whole tournament but in Handball the little details decide between win or loss. I think now we can say that the Handball Euro's weren't just a coincident.. we are back in the top of the world and finally overcome our crisis! But that belongs to the Handball thread and not so much into this thread.

Considering that I was worried a long time and complained a lot, our medal record looks decent:
17 gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze.
Positive: This is the highest amount of golden medals after Atlanta 1996.. that's huge! 6 more gold medals than in London.
Good performance in Rowing, Canoe, Equestrian, Shooting, Ballsports (Football, Handball, Hockey, Table Tennis, Tennis, Beachvolleyball)

Negative: 42 medals is not enough for our ambitions... our Olympics team had the potential to win around 50 medals for sure but too many of our medal contenders were far away from their best. At least, 42 medals is one more than in Beijing 2008.
Disappointing performance in Swimming (disaster), Athletics (at least there were breakthroughs of some athletes who were in shadow of others before but in total we were rather bad), Fencing, Cycling, Judo

5th place in the medal table is pretty good. We have a big margin to our rivals Japan, France and Australia and we were close to beat Russia. I guess however that Russia is still too powerful despite many suspensions. We can't compete with them due to our miserable sports promotion.

Hands down, I couldn't be happier. I'm overall very very proud of our Team and I think we all should be thankful that they represent our country in such an amazing way! I'm quite sure that they inspired a lot of kids and teenagers to try out some new sports.
It's disgusting that the Media are already trying to talk everything down ... What do they even want? It just feels like the ARD/ZDF are pretty pissed because they didn't get the broadcasting rights for the next few Olympics (which is indeed a shame btw) .... I mean sure, our swimmers, fencers and track and field athletes weren't as strong as they used to be BUT there are many more sports in which our athletes were beyond amazing - Why only focus on the negative side?
Let's face it, one can't even blame those who "failed" to deliver! As you said the sports promotion in Germany is a mess compared to other big countries. The ministry of the interior finally needs to overthink certain things - An investment into sports is an investment into the future.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

So so so proud of Great Britain - we did it!! Second in the Olympics, 2016 has been our most successful Games ever! Now the challenge is to defend our runner-up position in Tokyo 2020

London 2012, and the Commonwealth Games in Manchester 2002 and Glasgow 2014, have done wonders for this country - I say to every country thinking of bidding for a Games, go for it!

Now all we need is a knighthood for Sir Mo Farah, and a football team for Tokyo!


I'm a Mancunian, but I've never really cared much for my city... but even I am proud of the fact that if Manchester had entered an independent Olympic team, we'd have been placed 4th, above Russia!!

I think it is very fitting that Great Britain's Olympic homecoming and celebration will be held in Manchester - this sporting journey started in Manchester at the Commonwealth Games, and we've contributed so much to Team GB's medal tally.


As for Rio 2016 itself, I think it has been a wonderful Games. Nothing will ever come close to London 2012 for me for obvious reasons, but I've enjoyed almost every day of this Olympics, ever since that fantastic opening ceremony... the Brazilians have done a wonderful job. I knew they would, there's doom-mongers everytime a Games comes round, and Rio has tought us - just ignore them!!!

I hope that the Paralympics are as successful as the Olympics have been


Next year the host of the 2024 Olympics shall be chosen, and I think I would like for it to go to Los Angeles or Rome. LA would probably put on the best show, the Americans know how to do anything big and impressive, but Rome is one of my favourite cities and I love how they plan to use some of the city's ruins as sporting venues, like the Roman Forum and the Circo Massimo. That would be a wonderful sight, especially with the Olympics having their origins in one of Europe's other ancient civilizations.

 

[Carrie]

I'm a Mancunian, but I've never really cared much for my city... but even I am proud of the fact that if Manchester had entered an independent Olympic team, we'd have been placed 4th, above Russia!!

How embarrassing, ::eang would have only gotten two silvers

 

[GermanBango]

Me waiting for the next Event to fanboy about ...

 

[Nicholas123]

POD (post-olympic depression)

 

[GRE]

1. 121
2. ::na 70
3. 67
4. 56
5. 42
6. 42
7. 41
8. 29
9. 28
10. 22
11. 21
12. 19
13. 19
14. 18
15. 18
39th place for Greece, quite good for us

 

[SaladBreak]

There should be a thread where we objectify men(and women) of the Olympics. But that's only my opinion...

 

[EscGeek]

There should be a thread where we objectify men(and women) of the Olympics. But that's only my opinion...

who do you have in mind?

 

[SaladBreak]

who do you have in mind?

Some domestic stuff:

Something international:

 

[EscGeek]

pffff men... xboring

here's a silver medalist from Beijing

 

[SaladBreak]

pffff men... xboring

here's a silver medalist from Beijing

Okay, here you go, she's pretty cute. She didn't win a medal, but her performance was adorable:

 

[LastDreamer]

Mo Farah, the greatest British track and field athlete EVER

He is from Somali, not British.

 

[Gabe]

He is from Somali, not British.

He has a British passport. He lives in Britain. His family is British. He has lived here since he was 8.

He is British, you are a troll and you should leave now.

 

[hugh]

He is from Somali, not British.

Don't be jealous, it's not a good look. Mo Farah is British, his family's British, he moved to the UK when he was 8 years old with his British dad and grew up in the UK, he has a North London accent, he supports Arsenal FC, and soon he will be knighted by the Queen, 'nuff said.

 

[lavieenrose]

He is from Somali, not British.

Then Somalia's flag plagiarism really needs to stop.

 

[esc87fan]

Very proud of Team Canada this year! We're usually not a summer sports power, but our team managed to match its all-time Summer Games record haul (non-boycotted) from Atlanta 1996

A few stats...

*16 of our 22 medals were won by women
*3 athletes became multi-medalists (Penny Oleksiak with 4, Andre De Grasse with 3, Meaghan Benfeito with 2)
*2 of our teams captured medals
*6 medals won in the pool, compared to 2 in London
*6 medals won in track and field
*Derek Drouin's gold in high jump was the first time in 84 years a Canadian won gold in a field event

I'm looking forward to many more amazing moments to come!
[MENTION=13287]hugh[/MENTION] - I think quite a few British athletes will be honored on the 2017 New Year's list

 

[GermanBango]

Hands down, the extinguishing of the flame was very well done - "Pelo tempo que durar" was the perfect song-choice to accompany this emotional moment.

 

[QwaarJet]

Now all we need is a knighthood for Sir Mo Farah, and a football team for Tokyo!

Would just like to add to this point...UEFA confirmed that for a GB football team to be at the Olympics, all 4 federations would have to agree, and 3 of the 4 have said that there are no circumstances under which they would agree. A women's team is not entirely impossible (but still unlikely), but a men's team absolutely will not happen.

 

[Edward]

I don't see why oppose it considering how harmless Team GB was at their own soil 4 Summers ago

Still on the aftermath of Euro however, I have to say that I'd prefer seeing football segregated at the Olympics too. But I think that Britain would never enter the Olympics under those cirumstances, considering the history behind and all. Adding to the fact that I have no idea if the other British countries (aside England) would have enough athletes to justify competing in a segregated way.

Olympic football seriously needs to be revised and supported by the proper football entities of power. Until then it will always be a very triviliazed sport within the context of the Games themselves as well as by football fans worldwide - which I suppose only follow the tournament if their country is in or if they really are into football that much (this being my case - yet I have to say, was mostly dull to watch some of the games other than those of my own country. Who cares for the Bender twins, 10 players playing for Neymar, Fiji putting up humiliation shows ever 2 nights, etc.)