Ireland gold medals going forward. Some bluesky thinking needed.

[Hardy]

Normalised medal tables

[thejuice]

funnily enough the UK Independent has had a a few articles attributing immigration as a big contributor to the UK's success.

[Hardy]

If we could get them to award the equestrian medals to the horses instead of the riders, we'd have another 60+ Olympic medals, according to an article I read somewhere (though I can't find any reliable table of where medal-winning horses were bred). Four of the five horses in the GB eventing team were Irish-bred, for instance.

[Donnellys Hollow]

If we could get them to award the equestrian medals to the horses instead of the riders, we'd have another 60+ Olympic medals, according to an article I read somewhere (though I can't find any reliable table of where medal-winning horses were bred). Four of the five horses in the GB eventing team were Irish-bred, for instance.

I might have heard wrong but I think only two of the horses that competed in the showjumping were Irish breds.

We should push to get point-to-points into the Olympics. JT McNamara, Jamie Codd and Derek O'Connor would win more medals than that Phelps chap.

[Hardy]

I heard that too (only two Irish-breds in the show jumping) and it didn't seem to make sense.

[Bingo]

I heard that too (only two Irish-breds in the show jumping) and it didn't seem to make sense.

was it two in the top 3?

[AZOffaly]

Hardy, I might be missing something but how do you read that Guardian Table? When I sort on Population, it puts us at 52nd, with a score of 3.5 Bronze. When I sort by GDP we are 70th with 0.5 Bronze. What is it showing?

[johnneycool]

With Olympic sports, particularly athletics I found the biggest barrier to kids participation was the lack of winning.   

You either found something you could win at or you gave up and went elsewhere. There are only so many times young johnny is going to come last in the 100m before he loses all interest.

I was never renowned for my fleet footedness, but theres  no call for the bullying

[Hardy]

Hardy, I might be missing something but how do you read that Guardian Table? When I sort on Population, it puts us at 52nd, with a score of 3.5 Bronze. When I sort by GDP we are 70th with 0.5 Bronze. What is it showing?

I didn't study it in detail, AZ. I decided I would compile a medals per head of population table, as a better relative indication (within limits) of countries' performance. Then I thought 'surely someone has done this' and googled it and put it up to let people know it was there. There's stuff about the methodology they used that I haven't read, but I suppose the 3.5 and 0.5 bronze medals are the actual number of bronze we have divided by a population factor and a GDP factor respectively.

[the Deel Rover]

Tug of war and Horse Shoe Throwing need to be added to the events asap.

[ziggysego]

Jim Allister is accusing boxing in the north of being sectarian.

http://www.tuv.org.uk/press-releases/view/1606/sectarianism-in-boxing-needs-addressed

[ziggy90]

Tug of war and Horse Shoe Throwing need to be added to the events asap.

Why not?

[the Deel Rover]

Tug of war and Horse Shoe Throwing need to be added to the events asap.

Why not?

Dunno

[Shamrock Shore]

Cork people could win a medal or two in 'Road Bowels'

[Ulick]

Proper handball I thought would be the obvious sport (not that primary school nonsense "handball" that's in it at the moment).