The Wookiee
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Any statos out there care to provide us with any figures ?
Would be good to know what Team GB have to beat ! !
Would be good to know what Team GB have to beat ! !
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Lowest Medal Total For A Host Country ?
- Thread starter The Wookiee
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Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Canada had a stinker in Montreal 76. Can't remember the exact number but I know they didn't get a gold. Relax, we will better that.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Lowest number of medals (9) won by a host country was in 1968 at Mexico City.
Canada won 0 gold medals at Montreal.
On average, the host country finishes 5th in the medal table.
At the 1904 games, most events (49 out of 92) only had competitors from the United States.
1896 Athens
Greece: 10 gold / 17 silver / 19 bronze - total 46 (2nd)
1900 Paris
France: 26 / 41 / 34 - 101 (1st)
1904 St Louis
United States: 78 / 82 / 79 - 239 (1st)
1908 London
Great Britain: 56 / 51 / 39 - 146 (1st)
1912 Stockholm
Sweden: 24 / 24 / 17 - 65 (2nd)
1920 Antwerp
Belgium: 14/ 11 / 11 - 36 (5th)
1924 Paris
France: 13 / 15 / 10 - 38 (3rd)
1928 Amsterdam
Netherlands: 6 / 9 / 4 - 19 (8th)
1932 Los Angeles
United States: 41 / 32 / 30 - 103 (1st)
1936 Berlin
Germany: 33 / 26 / 30 - 89 (1st)
1948 London
Great Britain: 3 / 14 / 6 - 23 (12th)
1952 Helsinki
Finland: 6 / 3 / 13 - 22 (8th)
1956 Melbourne
Australia: 13 / 8 / 14 - 35 (3rd)
1960 Rome
Italy: 13 / 10 / 13 - 36 (3rd)
1964 Tokyo
Japan: 16 / 5 / 8 - 29 (3rd)
1968 Mexico City
Mexico: 3 / 3 / 3 - 9 (15th)
1972 Munich
West Germany: 13 / 11 / 16 - 40 (4th)
1976 Montreal
Canada: 0 / 5 / 6 - 11 (27th)
1980 Moscow
Soviet Union: 80 / 69 / 46 - 195 (1st)
1984 Los Angeles
United States: 83 / 61 / 30 - 174 (1st)
1988 Seoul
South Korea: 12 / 10 /11 - 33 (4th)
1992 Barcelona
Spain: 13 / 7 / 2 - 22 (6th)
1996 Atlanta
United States: 44 / 32 / 25 - 101 (1st)
2000 Sydney
Australia: 16 / 25 / 17 - 58 (4th)
2004 Athens
Greece: 6 / 6 / 4 - 16 (15th)
2008 Beijing
China: 51 / 21 / 28 - 100 (1st)
Taking both Summer and Winter Olympics into account, only the United States, the Soviet Union and Germany have won more medals than Great Britain. The same applies to the Summer Olympics.
The country that has won most Winter Olympics medals is Norway.
Canada won 0 gold medals at Montreal.
On average, the host country finishes 5th in the medal table.
At the 1904 games, most events (49 out of 92) only had competitors from the United States.
1896 Athens
Greece: 10 gold / 17 silver / 19 bronze - total 46 (2nd)
1900 Paris
France: 26 / 41 / 34 - 101 (1st)
1904 St Louis
United States: 78 / 82 / 79 - 239 (1st)
1908 London
Great Britain: 56 / 51 / 39 - 146 (1st)
1912 Stockholm
Sweden: 24 / 24 / 17 - 65 (2nd)
1920 Antwerp
Belgium: 14/ 11 / 11 - 36 (5th)
1924 Paris
France: 13 / 15 / 10 - 38 (3rd)
1928 Amsterdam
Netherlands: 6 / 9 / 4 - 19 (8th)
1932 Los Angeles
United States: 41 / 32 / 30 - 103 (1st)
1936 Berlin
Germany: 33 / 26 / 30 - 89 (1st)
1948 London
Great Britain: 3 / 14 / 6 - 23 (12th)
1952 Helsinki
Finland: 6 / 3 / 13 - 22 (8th)
1956 Melbourne
Australia: 13 / 8 / 14 - 35 (3rd)
1960 Rome
Italy: 13 / 10 / 13 - 36 (3rd)
1964 Tokyo
Japan: 16 / 5 / 8 - 29 (3rd)
1968 Mexico City
Mexico: 3 / 3 / 3 - 9 (15th)
1972 Munich
West Germany: 13 / 11 / 16 - 40 (4th)
1976 Montreal
Canada: 0 / 5 / 6 - 11 (27th)
1980 Moscow
Soviet Union: 80 / 69 / 46 - 195 (1st)
1984 Los Angeles
United States: 83 / 61 / 30 - 174 (1st)
1988 Seoul
South Korea: 12 / 10 /11 - 33 (4th)
1992 Barcelona
Spain: 13 / 7 / 2 - 22 (6th)
1996 Atlanta
United States: 44 / 32 / 25 - 101 (1st)
2000 Sydney
Australia: 16 / 25 / 17 - 58 (4th)
2004 Athens
Greece: 6 / 6 / 4 - 16 (15th)
2008 Beijing
China: 51 / 21 / 28 - 100 (1st)
Taking both Summer and Winter Olympics into account, only the United States, the Soviet Union and Germany have won more medals than Great Britain. The same applies to the Summer Olympics.
The country that has won most Winter Olympics medals is Norway.
hitony
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You either own Google LB or you should be a resident on Question of Sport 
Mo Gosfield
Well-known member
- Aug 11, 2010
- 6,348
All the pundits were predicting approx 22 golds for GB. I'm not so sure. There will be some ' bankers ' and ' nailed ons ' that don't come in and that means that there have to be some surprise golds.
I'm going for a figure around that of Beijing. ( Where we over-performed )Anything more is a bonus.
I'm going for a figure around that of Beijing. ( Where we over-performed )Anything more is a bonus.
Rich Suvner
Skint years RIP
I was about to come on here and say this thread was prematurely negative. It was actually very interesting.
Rich Suvner
Skint years RIP
I think we can bank on some homegrown surprises. In the same way some 'bankers' will surprise us.
Agreed that Beijing target seems sensible.
Along similar lines, I read on Wikipedia last night that Hungary have the second highest number of medals per capita, a fact that really shocked me.
I think we will do well to match Beijing total. However, Team GB were targeting 45 medals or something, and have only missed out on men's cycling so far.
HastingsSeagull
Well-known member
1992 Barcelona
Spain: 13 / 7 / 2 - 22 (6th)
2004 Athens
Greece: 6 / 6 / 4 - 16 (15th)
Would think those are the ones to beat. Spain did incredibly well unfortunatly so set the bar rather high! I predict around the 22 medals but not as many gold, about 8th or 9th place would be good result
Spain: 13 / 7 / 2 - 22 (6th)
2004 Athens
Greece: 6 / 6 / 4 - 16 (15th)
Would think those are the ones to beat. Spain did incredibly well unfortunatly so set the bar rather high! I predict around the 22 medals but not as many gold, about 8th or 9th place would be good result
Vegas Seagull
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- Jul 10, 2009
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Irrelevant stats, small countries...average increase for hosts is circa 7 golds more than immediate previous Games, given home advantage/funding etc means 26 Golds should be the target level
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He is Sue Barker in his spare time.
I thought everyone knew
JamesAndTheGiantHead
Well-known member
Looks like the 1908 team deserve a call up.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,501
I agree. While many of the stars will win as expected (or at least hoped for), there is always a complete nobody who comes through to shock everyone, boosted by the sheer adrenalin of home support. For some reason that Cacho guy springs to mind. Came from nowhere to win the 1500m in Barcelona.
Someone will do that. But the others will do fine too. Not sure why everyone seems so nervous, we've only had two days of competition so far, and Cavendish apart, nobody who was expected to win hasn't done so. Even in Cav's event, it's not like he's been a total failure, as cycling is very competitive. Adlington won the 400m in Beijing, but she actually swam faster in coming third yesterday, so it's very much a case of her doing really well, but a couple of other outstanding competitors doing better. She seemed happy with her medal, as she clearly wasn't expecting it, and she still has her favourite event to come.
We'll do fine, nobody needs to panic.
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
Well if we beat that we have improved
BHAFC_Pandapops
Citation Needed
- Feb 16, 2011
- 2,844
Well ofc. They're Hungary for medals!
ROSM
Well-known member
Cav's reaction on Saturday was borne out by comments from the USA coach yesterday. He said (I'm only slightly paraphrasing here) that if a British rider hadn't won the TdeF with others winning so many stages too, and if the team didnt keep winning world championships then Cav would have won on The Mall. However we are now seen as the ones to beat and others in road racing weren't prepared to do their share which ultimately would have helped him.