Olympics 2012 - London

[Super Nova]

Medal tally site.

http://olympicstable.com/Olympics-Medals-Tally-2012.php

Australia is 8th behind Kazakhstan at end of Sunday 29/7. WTF is going on?

I guess it is only day two. Swimming was disappointing.

[Neferti]

I said that we wouldn't get as many medals as we have in the last few Olympics. I was right, I guess. Ah well.

Was it Barcelona when the Swimming Coach (forgotten his name) cried we would get Gold, Gold, Gold and all we got was Bronze, Bronze, Bronze?

Still, one consolation, last I looked the score was still Aussies 1 Gold Poms 0 They really aren't having the score+ of medals as the Host Country .... so far. So I do feel a bit sorry for them.

Good to see the Kiwis going strong .... we must remember that they have a very small population but the competitors probably live in Oz and train here ...... but ....

The Missile fizzled. Let's see how he goes in his next swim? Great to see that France beat the Yanks. I usually say that I don't care who wins, particularly in swimming, so long as it is not the Yanks. I may end up adding the Chinese ... eventually.

[Super Nova]

I felt the same. I was please the yanks did not win the swimming event. Don't quite know why.

[Neferti]

I felt the same. I was please the yanks did not win the swimming event. Don't quite know why.

Why? Because most of them still think Australia is like America was in the 1960s. IF they think about Oz at all.

Apart from that, they have a population of 350 million plus, we have 22 million. UK is 65 million. China 1 billion? When it comes down to it ........ Oz beats the Yanks every time .

[Super Nova]

I just cannot work out why the yank always win the "World Series".....


Oh, no-one else plays it.... I forgot.

[Neferti]

I just cannot work out why the yank always win the "World Series".....


Oh, no-one else plays it.... I forgot.

I've always said that according to Americans the World starts at New York and ends In Hollywood. The kids that attend the Olympics may have a bit more idea of how HUGE the WORLD is, but I doubt it.

I have many USA contacts and until a few years ago they sent me cards for Thanksgiving and 4th July. I sent some of them a Happy Australia Day card and some took notice. Australia is NOT what America was in the 60's.

[boxy]

The "World Series" was named for a sponsor, not the planet

[Neferti]

The "World Series" was named for a sponsor, not the planet

Indeed! Who was the sponsor then? American or Chinese?

[Super Nova]

The "World Series" was named for a sponsor, not the planet

Indeed! Who was the sponsor then? American or Chinese?

A quick google and found this.

Origin of the Name "World Series"

One baseball myth that just won't die is that the "World Series" was named for the New York World newspaper, which supposedly sponsored the earliest contests. It didn't, and it wasn't.

In fact, the postseason series between the AL and NL champs was originally known as the "Championship of the World" or "World's Championship Series." That was shortened through usage to "World's Series" and finally to "World Series."

This usage can be traced through the annual baseball guides. Spalding's Base Ball Guide for 1887 reported the results of the 1886 postseason series between Chicago, champions of the National League, and St. Louis, champions of the American Association, under the heading "The World's Championship." As the editor noted, the two leagues "both entitle their championship contests each season as those for the base ball championship of the United States," so a more grandiose name was required to describe the postseason showdown between the two "champions of the United States."

But the Spalding Guide -- which, after all, was published by one of the world's largest sporting goods companies, with a vested interest in bringing baseball to other lands -- had grander ambitions. By 1890, the Spalding Guide was explaining that "[t]he base ball championship of the United States necessarily includes that of the entire world, though the time will come when Australia will step in as a rival, and after that country will come Great Britain; but all that is for the future."

This didn't happen, but the name "World's Championship Series" stuck. Reporting on the first modern postseason series, the Red Sox-Pirates battle of 1903, the 1904 Reach Guide called it the "World's Championship Series." By 1912, Reach's headline spoke of the "World's Series," while editor Francis Richter's text still referred to the "World's Championship Series." The Reach Guide switched from "World's Series" to "World Series" in 1931, retaining the modern usage through its merger with the Spalding Guide and through its final issue in 1941. The separately-edited Spalding Guide used "World's Series" through 1916, switching to "World Series" in the 1917 edition.

The Spalding-Reach Guide was replaced as Major League Baseball's semi-official annual by the Sporting News Guide, first published in 1942. The Sporting News Guide used "World's Series" from 1942 through 1963, changing to "World Series" in the 1964 edition.

Moreover, the New York World never claimed any connection with postseason baseball. The World was a tabloid much given to flamboyant self-promotion. If it had been involved in any way with sponsoring a championship series, the fact would have been emblazoned across its sports pages for months. I reviewed every issue of the World for the months leading up to the 1903 and 1905 World's Championship Series -- there's not a word suggesting any link between the paper and the series.

[boxy]

I believe it was "The World" newspaper.