Rio 2016 - Team USA news and medal count

[F-22Raptor]

Ledecky takes gold in the 200 free!

 

[jhungary]

Yeah, she edged out Sarah Sjostrom all the way (from 50 meters) and bring home the match...

Damn, this is really a race of the century....You deserve it, Katie

Also congrats for Sarah Sjostrom (My wife was in tears...) and Aussie Emma McKeon for bronze.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Phelps takes gold in the 200 fly!

 

[jhungary]

20th PERSONAL GOLD MEDAL...........

Man, this is just bad ***.....

There are only one word for it, LEGEND. The only one in the world poised to do better is from another previous race of the century - Katie Ledechy

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

USA team at triple 8 "fortune"

Gold: 8
Silver: 8
Bronze: 8

 

[jhungary]

USA team at triple 8 "fortune"

Gold: 8
Silver: 8
Bronze: 8

Think not for long, I think we are in a real chance of winning the 4 x 200

Also some (not great) with 200 medley... Think Hozzsu have that in the bag, but you never know.

DiRado Take Bronze

 

[F-22Raptor]

Dirado wins bronze in the 200 IM!

 

[jhungary]

US won 4x200 free style............Michael Phelps 21st medal, Now Michael have the same medal tally as Ethiopia have in Olympic history

 

[F-22Raptor]

U.S. wins the gold in the 4by200 free!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Phelps takes gold in the 200 fly!

Ledecky takes gold in the 200 free!

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I wish we had better funding for sports in Pakistan , more focused on Individual sports

• Running (100 Athletes)
  
• Tennis (100 Athletes)
  
• Boxing (100 Athletes)
  
• Wrestling (100 Athletes)
  
• Beach Volley Ball (100 Athletes)
  
• Judo (100 Athletes)
  
• Cycling (100 Athletes)
  
• Archery ( 50 Athletes)
• Tekuwando ( 50 Athletes)
  
• Shooting (100 Athletes)
  
• Diving /Swimming (50/50 Athletes)

Proper funding of 1000 Athletes (Scholar Ships) , good money incentive for 10 year projects
too often cricket teams get like Millions per player and their performance is Zero
Really helps with Image of a nation globally

Get rid of local federation(s) and make 1 Body to mange Financing of All sports , which identifies kids 10-11Year old gives them scholar Ships for 10 years
(1 Million Dollars each GRANT ). Kids would be identified by scouts for potential
provided the players would focus on Athletics as Career , they might get educated on side but spend majority of time for "Sports"

Between Age 10-20 they would have guaranteed 1 Million dollar in Bank, and people would be qualified to Represent Pakistan between starting ages 15 in Olympics and International Events

Bench Mark

• 5 Years between Age 10 and Age 15 to reach Olympic level

Age 15-18 , Abilities Peak and you can start representing Pakistan in Olympics
Late bloomers Age 20 you get to Olympics

By Age 18-20 , You probably would still have 500,000 USD-800,000 USD left in your back account but you would be ready to compete in Olympics due to your Training and bench marks

Body
Soul
Spirit

All dedicated to the sport

- Players could hire their own coach from they fund between Age 10-15

• 1.0 Billion USD , for sports development money going directly to players provided they can hit International Olympic level performance targets and hit mile stones for performance on year by year basis

Qualifying to Olympics Standard = 95,000 USD Bonus Paid by Gov
Qualifying to World Event = 95,000 USD Bonus Paid by Gov
Reaching Podium = 250,000 USD bonus Paid by Gov

Players keep any Endorsement money on Top / Participation Money / Winning Money
Post Olympics

It really sucks to see International events and Pakistani Nation Missing in action

While Government may not understand it , but SPORTS change image of Country in World

 

[F-22Raptor]

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

US is winning most medals just in swimming

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Swimming and Gymnastic domination is just scary for US , too bad the battle in Gymnastics was overshadowed by Russian Athlete bans and other side shows

Even Australians were made to look average in Swimming

The feats by Philips won't be repeated for 1000 Years

 

[jhungary]

US is winning most medals just in swimming

Actually, as much as China dominated weight lifting......

This is always how the game goes, the US start well in swimming, and China start well in Shooting (not this time tho), weight lifting and diving, and then collect some stagger medal from badminton and table tennis, gym etc while the US collect some stagger medal from tennis, boxing, shooting and something else, then it hit track and field again then the medal count just pull out...