That amount of medals is 18th not 12th. Also they’re counting 3 guys in one team event as 3 separate golds.
Oh shit Spain would be close to the top of the medal table with 23 golds from men’s football and 15 golds from women’s waterpolo
Who knows, I feel like people are forgetting a lot of team sports here too: Basketball, Football, Water Polo, Handball, Field Hockey, Synchronized Swimming, Rugby, Volleyball, Rowing, and then others that have teams but only a few people each.
I wish England competed on their own. Absolutely hate all this “Team GB” shit
why is Great Britain in the Olympics and not England, Wales etc, like in football?
Because, technically, there are no nations at the Olympic games, just representatives of all of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs). These usually, but not always, align with actual nations.
So, there are no NOCs for the constituent nations of the UK and the NOC is called ‘GB and Northern Ireland’ for complicated historical reasons.
Other oddities include teams like the Cook Islands, which are part of NZ but have their own NOC, Aruba, which is technically the Netherlands, the United States Virgin Islands and Hong Kong, which has its own NOC separate from China.
There are others.
Puerto Rico is a classic one as well
Because soccer is beholden to the rules of Association Football, meaning the UK gets to decide what qualifies as a country. In the meantime the IOC has a rule that a NOC only qualifies as based along the lines of the governmental body which treats with the UN. There are some dependent territories who get special treatment (e.g. Bermuda, Puerto Rico) which traditionally sent teams before the rule on must treat with the UN directly and are grandfathered in.
Not surprising that people with more money and access to private education would have more resources to become an Olympian
This school is literally one of the resources used to become an olympian. It has a really high focus in sports.
Do we tell him about Stanford.
Typical American. “Nn-n-no look at us though! We’re great too!”
You can always tell a Millfield man
Does this mean students who were high schoolers during this Olympics, or graduates of this high school who were Olympians this year?
Graduates. James Guy for example went to this school but he’s 28 now.
Umm what’s that Bermuda flag? 👀
Blaxland High School (government school in Australia) would have come 29th with the three golds of the Fox sisters…
Millfield is IMG Academy’s father
So it’s actually 2 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze. They counted 3 individual medals for 3 guys on the swimming relay team.
Still impressive that 3 athletes on the relay team came from the same school.
Played cricket against Millfield a few times for various teams. Home and away. Saw my first ever Aston Martin parked next to their pitch. Turns out it belonged to a teacher. Mind boggling facilities, as you’d expect for 50k p/a.
Most memorable game was when our state school got drawn against them in the national schools cup. They turned up to our ground in a huge coach swankier than any professional teams I had ever seen.
Their coaches/staff starting unloading these massive metal chests full of isotonic drinks and gels and whatnot. We were thirteen and none of us had ever seen anything like it.
Immediately knew we were going to get our arses handed to us. And we certainly did! We were a decent side as well, Welsh schools champions at the time.
Deepest darkest Somerset!
Is anyone surprised? Rich kids are good at sport. Even if the kid wasn’t rich (or as rich), they tend to have sport scholarships to draw the best to the school.
Also there is a lot of sports in the Olympics that are pretty much inaccessible to lower income families. Eg. Like every rower likely started at school and what schools offer rowing? Private schools.
This school in Australia got at least 5 gold, 4 silver and one bronze,
just from having 3 good swimmers. Titmus and o’callaghan, cartwirght.
it’s possible they got more, I didn’t check the medals for all the athletes they sent.