Olympics: Final 2025 Olympic Medal Table
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Some nice achievements and big disappointments for France. Especially the number of close finals we lost. Pressure was also a thing. We should have turned at least 5-6 silvers into gold.
Fencing is usually a big provider and that wasn't the case. Gymnastics, track and field (expected), etc.... were big flops.
Men's handball too.
Judo had some great moments, but lots of french heavy favourites crashed early.
Fencing is usually a big provider and that wasn't the case. Gymnastics, track and field (expected), etc.... were big flops.
Men's handball too.
Judo had some great moments, but lots of french heavy favourites crashed early.
Well technically if you add Hong Kong's golds to China's total then they'd be topping the gold medal count. 
Jussi
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Apparently it's the first time in history the Summer games had a gold medal tie. US still wins due to more silver
Doesn't work that way. Hong Kong is a territory of China, but it's treated separate from the nation itself. Like Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands.Well technically if you add Hong Kong's golds to China's total then they'd be topping the gold medal count.
If they were the same, they would not have their own athletes. China would not get more qualifiers And thus those medals couldn't be combined.
I am happy to see some of the smaller countries bring home some medals, like Ireland, St Lucia, Peru, Morocco, Singapore and the Czech Republic.
Quite impressive for Japan to beat France still with their 2020 investments, although also some previous hosts have enjoyed similar trends before falling off. Team GB down to 14 gold medals after 29 in London and 22 still in Tokyo.
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With each Olympics I feel like there's more attention and talk given to the total medal count and I kind of don't get it.
The Olympics are about countries around the world competing in individual events. It's not like you win the Olympics because of the most golds.
It's not exactly an even playing field when you're talking about countries like the US and China against such smaller ones.
The Olympics are about countries around the world competing in individual events. It's not like you win the Olympics because of the most golds.
It's not exactly an even playing field when you're talking about countries like the US and China against such smaller ones.
I actually think it's not as much as it used to be. Back in the day it was always the US vs the USSR and it was like an extension of the Cold War.
KirkAlbuquerque
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Absolute no. We Finns did a poor Summer Olympics 2024 in France.
We Finns are back to Winter Olympics 2026 presumably without my participate.
National team in hockey not my biggest like.
Finland won gold without NHL pros in Winter Olympics 2022.
Winter Olympics 2026 all big national teams have NHL pros.
Winter Olympics 2006 Finland had 3 good goalies, 6-7 good D and 8 good FW but Finland lose final game 3-2 to Sweden in thrilling final game.
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Yeah I remember those days. Maybe it's social media that makes it seem more pronounced. It's just a weird idea to me that some people seem to think you can win the Olympics.
German metal worked more before 2021 and in sports it's harder for Germany, but Germany's effort is better than the Nordic effort despite some medals of the northernmost Europe in the total.
Again, doesn't work that way. WAY MORE qualifiers than a single nation is permitted per event. You can't combine medals by multiple nations like that.EU easily won the OG
Cycling has really fallen off a cliff, in (men's) gymnastics there aren't anymore the few individuals capable of collecting a bunch of medals and also various throwing competitions in athletics have dried up. Also in judo and table tennis a clear drop in performance even compared to Tokyo.
Plus Germany really sucks at many of the new sports like breaking or rugby sevens or skateboarding or sport climbing or BMX/MTB... That's at least in part on way too rigid promotion and funding structures that can't react to the changing landscape in sports.
But the Nordic countries together also have significantly fewer inhabitants than Germany. E.g. Sweden, Denmark and Norway together have approx. 22 million + Finland(who didn't win a medal) 27.5 million.
Germany should invest where they have traditionally always done well. Of course you shouldn't ignore the new sports. Schools should actually promote sport a lot more, since children these days spend all day at school. In addition, low-income families with talented children should be given more support. Such projects are light years away. Unfortunately, the trend in Germany is that performance is viewed as something bad. There should no longer be any certificates at the Federal Youth Games. Everyone should be a winner and have fun. In the long run it becomes more and more difficult with competitive sports.
Well after abit of Googling it says that things may change after the 1 country 2 system agreement ends in 2047 and Hong Kong may potentially have its athletes become apart of the Chinese team, but I guess we'll see when the time comes.
If China and Hong Kong had been combined this Olympics there wouldn't be much overlap because both Hong Kong gold medals were in fencing where China didn't win any medals in those events.
If they become part of the Chinese team, that means they compete for China qualification places. Thus no increase in China athletes sent to the Olympics since each country has a limit on qualifiers.
They would replace members of the China team if they are better. Or not if they're not.
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His point though was that they'd qualify in fencing and win medals there since they're better than China's.
