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[Banana Banana]

Ireland
South Africa
Nigeria

Any other notable ducks?

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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given what happened to our last two gold medal winners, we've decided to keep our heads down.

we have three boxers in the quarter finals, so if one of them wins their next fight, they'll have a bronze at the very least.

[Duncan Gardner]

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Oi!



Latest medals table shows Ultonia leading Egypt, Mexico, Argentina and Taiwan. Lo siento, Messi...

[Banana Banana]

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Absolutely Bill, but I was pointing my finger at the residents of the Economic Miracle.

[Duncan Gardner]

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Who will henceforth (at least on their football team's shirts) be known as Eire, apparently.

As AIATL says, one of their boxers may get a medal (hopefully the one who's also one of ours).

[Banana Banana]

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Nigeria in the football semis I am told?

[rick derris]

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final now

[Jimmy Bignutz]

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Nigeria are in the final, so guaranteed a medal. South Africa got a silver in... something or other.

[Guest]

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Ireland have two bronzes now, in the boxing. The best-case scenario is three golds (another fighter is in action tomorrow).

South Africa picked up a silver in the long jump. Very surprising that they didn't get any medals in the swimming.

[Duncan Gardner]

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India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka- clearly concentrating on the cricket?

[Banana Banana]

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India have a gold in shooting - the assassination of spiritual leader class I guess.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

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Belgium appears still to have not a single medal of any hue. Not necessarily surprising, but certainly pretty poor.

Belgium really does under-perform, doesn't it? At football, at sport generally, and at having enough notable citizens, past or present, for anyone other than a PhD in Belgian studies to avoid having to put "Hercule Poirot" down if asked to name 5 famous Belgians. Honestly, apart from crap actor J-C Van Damme and Plastic Bertrand, I think their most famous real people are probably deviant serial sex-killers.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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belgium got to the semis in the football. I think they play brazil in a third place play off.

[Guest]

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Lord Mauleverer wrote:

Belgium really does under-perform, doesn't it? At football, at sport generally

The best cyclist of all time was a Belgian, they've had two world-class tennis players in the past decade, and their football team has at least reached a major tournament final in the last four decades, unlike some teams we could mention. They've had a couple of brilliant swimmers in recent years too.

[N est à?]

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Belgium still in with shout of the football bronze, as AIATL says. Also, that famous Belgians joke is positively Pleistocene Mauleverer, and not worthy of you.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Belgium won the Federation Cup in 2001, and as such are more recent winners of that tournament (effectively the women's "world cup" in tennis) than Germany, Australia or the USA.

[Heliotrope]

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Poland seems to me to earn disproportionally few medals, and they don't seem to have big names in non-Olympics sports, showbiz, etc. Aren't we good at anything?

[Wyatt Earp]

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You were the first to crack the Enigma cipher.

[Banana Banana]

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And had the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.

[Reed John]

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There was a Polish pope. That's a pretty big deal, I'm told.

[Reed John]

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Fuck. Simul-post.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

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Yeah, OK, sorry for being gratuitously (and, has been pointed out with supporting case studies, inaccurately) rude about Belgium.

Mind you, the country may not exist for much longer.

[Guest]

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A Belgian woman has won the gold medal in the high jump.

[Duncan Gardner]

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Subject to final confirmation, Ultonia have managed a creditable 63rd in the medals table, ahead of, among others, Malaysia, South Africa, Egypt, Taiwan and Israel. Bring on 2012!

Actually, don't. Facking white elephant waste of taxpayers' money etc. etc.

[Mumpo]

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I thought Iran had a duck in the golds tally but after checking, I see Hadi Saei managed to triumph in the 80kg Taekwondo. So 'wa-' and, emphatically, 'hey'.