2012 Olympics

Is this really how you all protest?:

No, not really. That's all we needed to hear. Why would we want to measure our victory of the game by ignoring the major contributing factors and focusing on the least? Are you trying to tell us that we are so awesome that if we could get our culture right then we could make a huge joke of the whole games like that?Now that you meantion it, Sorta, we are. Not because of our culture itself, but since we so awesome in the other regards that we were victorious, then that kinda creates its own culture... of winning.

Rather than defining "winning" as something that is practically impossible to say that one country did, why not just define it as whoever wins the most medals (weighted or otherwise)? For each event, the winners are the ones who got medals, so whichever country won the most medals won the most events and, therefore, very straightforwardly won the Olympics. You could even break it down by category: Russia won Rythmic Gymnastics, China won Badminton, etc.The only problem I see with this is that this makes the Olympics, as a whole, have very little to do with that "sporting culture" or whatever was mentioned before. Its more about who is the biggest and richest country. I can see why people would be turned off by that, but its a fact nonetheless.All it really does is make the saying that the US won the Olympics loose any realy value as a claim of something of any importance.And for bluegenes to come out saying that if you disregard the biggest factors in winning the Olympics (size and money) then the US doesn't look all that impressive in its last remaining stat just looks like poor loser talk to me. Why not? Does hosting affect your medal count, or something? Should that be taken into account for y'alls number of medals this year?

We want to hear that you know it. You acknowledge that we won based on "wealth, size, and culture/ethnicity.", point out that our culture stat was ordinary, and then say that measuring by that we aren't really the winners. And now you say that's what we're doing... That's just loser talk. And if we had your culture stat, we'd turn the Olympics into a joke with our 300+ medals. But really the point of our claim to winning the Olympics is really just acknowledging that we're the biggest and best country.

Meh, its still poor loser talk:"Yeah, you won, but you really didn't play that well!"

Pfft, whatever, we totally kicked ass at the Olympics.

Unlike hockey, which is just a combination of three activities...

Well, I've always been much more interested in video games than sports. The only Olympics that I actually watched were female gymnastics and beach volleyball...