World Cup 2014

[ryanman]

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we piss on them at snooker and darts

And Rugby. Cricket. Cycling. Boxing. Loads of Olympic sports. Had more Formula One world champs than them (more than any nation in fact).

In fact Football is all they have over us I'd say.

and that's the one that hurts the most.............

This is true.

That's why it colours our view of all sport.

One day we'll get in right in football. In my lifetime I hope.

I'm pretty sure the germans consistenly beat yall in the medal count in the olympics...

Erm,

London 2012-
Britain 29 Golds 65 Medals
Germany 11 Golds 44 Medals


Beijing 2008 -
Britain 19 Golds 47 medals
Germany 16 Golds 41 Medals


All time -
Britain 236 golds, 780 Medals
Germany 174 Golds 573 Medals

if you look you pretty much picked the only two olympics in recent memory where Britain won more medals, usually it is not even close

here are the results since reunification
92 germany 32 golds total 82
Britain 5 golds total 20

96 germany 20 golds total 65
Britain 1 gold total 15

2000 germany 13 golds total 56
Britain 11 golds total 28

2004 germany 13 golds total 49
Britain 9 golds total 30

don't know where you got that 174# for germany since just the ones up there listed is like 100+ medals for germany, then you throw in the time they were east/west germany...yeah don't think its even close.

To add I went back to 1988 if you combine east and west germany they have 48 golds just at those games and a total of 142, Britain had 5 golds and 24 total. You were saying?

Well I didn't pick two random games, I took the two most RECENT...

I wasn't saying Britain has always had the upper hand, but lately we have. And that won't change any time soon. Their trend is very much downwards and ours is very much upwards.
We were utter shit in the 80s/90s but have consistently got better and better.
Only US and China above us at 2012, and 4th in 2008.

Also, not that this is my point, but you can't count East and West Germany together.
That's two teams. And given you only have a finite number of entries per event for each team it's a bit of an advantage having two teams.

In summary, in terms of the Olympics, Germany used to be better, now Britain is.