GREAT BRITAIN superior to USA: OVERALL Olympic Performance

5 additional medal contenders in track alone, meaning that there were probably considerably more than fifty other medal contenders dropped from other sports in the trials.

Run007xx wrote:

5 additional medals wouldn't make any difference. Even if we spot you 5 golds, the USA still underperformed team GB.

Nice try though.

macdaddy wrote:

I don't have the time to go through each event, but I'm sure there were at least 5 individuals who were OLY medal contenders that were eliminated at the USA trials.

The top ten American universities in the medal count alone account for 115 medals.

http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/ncaa-and-olympics/2016-08-22/rio-olympics-2016-which-schools-won-most-medals

Okay, trying to eliminate multiple medalists for the same event (relays and teams), I count 121 medals from NCAA athletes at the Olympics.

http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/ncaa-and-olympics/2016-08-06/2016-rio-olympics-keep-track-ncaa-student-athletes-olympic

Populations in 1776:

USA 2.5 million

"Great" Britain 7 million

The defense rests

jjjjjj wrote:

How many medals were won by athletes trained by American colleges and universities?

^This. A huge number of Olympians from other countries live and train the good ole USA, including Britain's golden boy Mo Farah. If we closed our facilities to the rest of the world then that medal count would look a lot different. You're welcome.

... and you didn't pull the plug on your empire. You squandered it and we had to take over management. Fact is, we've been carrying you guys ever since WWII, but we don't mind. Everyone should have a pet bulldog. They are ugly but loyal.

... and you Brits fancy yourselves as first rate explorers. Hah! We've been to the moon. We've been to the bottom of the Ocean. We've sent ships outside the solar system. Your guy Hillary Clinton crawled to the top of Everest and took credit while his slave did all the heavy lifting. Pretty low tech stuff. Every time you try something with a technical challenge it crashes like the Concorde, or you wankers end up floating around on antarctic ice for a year like Shackleton.

...and you must be taking the mickey with that carp about Trump and his wall. Maybe you blighters aren't keeping up on current events but you just voted to withdraw from the EWE! And you got the English channel as your "wall".

Now I like England and the English which is why I've been nice so far. But one more bloody word out of your pie hole, and I'll start talking about the Royal Family. Yeah. That's right. I'll go there. I really will. So don't do it mate!

9.7/10 - if you said "manky teeth" and limey, I'd give you 10/10

Love the part about the ugly pet bulldog. We have to treat the Brits like an aging parent. They still need to feel in control, but we make sure that they don't fall down and break a hip.

“and you didn't pull the plug on your empire. You squandered it and we had to take over management. Fact is, we've been carrying you guys ever since WWII, but we don't mind. Everyone should have a pet bulldog. They are ugly but loyal.” (quote)

And haven’t you make a complete cock-up of world affairs since WW2, if fact, the last successful military operation the Americans were involved in was D-Day and Okinawa.

Since then the list is horrendous:

Korea - defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

Vietnam - don’t mention it.

Iraq.

Libya.

Kosovo

Afghanistan.

Syria.

If only America had retreated into the post WW1 isolation, after WW2, the world would be far better off right now.

The difference between the Americans and the British is summed up in a couple of lines in a book I’m reading right now about the balls-up you made of the (illegal) invasion of Iraq;

I went to see Dr. Basima, who was a newly elected member of Parliament. She was as blunt as ever: “The British are remembered for building roads and bridges which are still in operation today over a century later. But the Americans will be remembered for blowing things up and creating orphans and widows.”

Oh, and back to sport.

It is also interesting to point out the sports that were first either invented or formalised into the sport we know today by the British, including British overseas. - and I’ve probably missed some:

Football - the international variety.

Rugby

Rugby League

Gaelic football

Australian rules football

Cricket

Hockey

Ice hockey

Golf

Curling

Tennis

Squash

Rackets

Fives

Hardball

Fencing

Billiards

Snooker

Downhill skiing (yes really)

Slalom skiing

Polo

Canoeing

Water polo

Table tennis

Rowing