Impressive. The US is on pace to win >100 medals, evenly split between gold, silver, and bronze.
Right now the US has 31 gold medals.
The Netherlands have 8 gold medals.
We have 17 million people in NL. The USA has 350 million people. That's 20 times more than we have. So to keep this in perspective, the US should get 160 gold medals if they want to be as good as NL.
You close to your 160 gold medals yet ?
RIO DE JANEIRO (CBSNewYork/AP) — Two security guards pointed guns at Ryan Lochte and three other swimmers during a dispute at a gas station, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The change in the version of events came after police interviewed one of the security guards Thursday. It further deepened the mystery of what truly happened at the station and set off an international dispute.
The official said the swimmers broke the bathroom door and the soap dispenser inside. Security footage from inside the station shows the swimmers vandalizing the bathroom.
Workers at the gas station went to see what the commotion was about, the official said. At that point, a security guard also came and confronted the swimmers, and pointed a gun. A second guard came behind him and pointed another gun.
Brazilian police previously said no gun was pointed at the swimmers.
oh damn, so Locthe might not be FOS after all. The mystery continues.
Right now the US has 31 gold medals.
The Netherlands have 8 gold medals.
We have 17 million people in NL. The USA has 350 million people. That's 20 times more than we have. So to keep this in perspective, the US should get 160 gold medals if they want to be as good as NL.
You close to your 160 gold medals yet ?
Ryan Lochte is a horses ass.
Seems to me that if the suits are going to crawl up their cracks, forcing every player on the team to be constantly prying them out of their butts, then you either make them thongs, or you make them shorts. I've always wondered about why they didn't do the same for divers, vollyeball players, and all the rest who are forced to dig material out of their butts after every performance.
Ryan Lochte and his teammates left out a huge part of their "robbery" story -- which is that they busted up a gas station bathroom, and THEN a security guard pulled a gun on them ... TMZ Sports has learned.
Sources connected to James Feigen tell us the real deal is ... the 4 swimmers -- including Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz -- were on their way home from a party early Sunday morning when they stopped to take a leak at a gas station. We're told one or more of the guys was peeing outside the bathroom, and also kicked in the bathroom door.
Our sources say the swimmers were all wasted.
That's when the gas station's armed security guard rolled up, pulled his gun and demanded they pay for the damage. We're told he did take money from the swimmers, but only to cover the expenses, and then let them go.
Rio police say the gas station manager tells a slightly different story -- claiming the guard never pulled the gun and the manager merely asked them to pay, which they did.
Bottom line ... it's possible Lochte and co. didn't lie about a gun or losing money. However, they DID create a whole bogus scenario about their taxi getting pulled over and fake badges -- and totally omitted the part about them starting the trouble in the first place. On Wednesday night, Lochte repeated most of those lies to Matt Lauer.
They could face prosecution for lying to Rio cops. They have a news conference scheduled for later Thursday.
You only need 1 contestant to win the gold medal. Not a good excuse.Congrats on the 8 gold. Were you guys held back by the rules limiting the total number of contestants per country too?
I'm going to go with the TMZ story
How dumb do you have to be to get shitfaced drunk, in brazil, during the olympics?
Douchebags confirmed...the swimmers vandalized a gas station, and when they were stopped by security guards, they made up the false story of getting robbed at gunpoint. What a bunch of punks.Not Lochte...sorry but he's a Grade-A douchebag. He had a reality show for a while that I saw a couple of times (I was a swimmer growing up so I have an interest in the sport) and the guy is just a major d-bag. I can definitely see them going on a vandalism spree and if had an ounce of sense in his idiot head, he would have kept his mouth shut because the truth will come out sooner or later. How many white kids with green hair are running around Rio right now?
I don't live in the US. I live in Canada and was lamenting the fact we didn't have that many medals. At this point Canada is in 11th place by medal count, with 16 medals. I just hope they can make the top 10. Right now South Korea is in 10th at 17 medals. There is basically no chance either country will make 9th, since that's currently held by Italy at 23 medals.Right now the US has 31 gold medals.
The Netherlands have 8 gold medals.
We have 17 million people in NL. The USA has 350 million people. That's 20 times more than we have. So to keep this in perspective, the US should get 160 gold medals if they want to be as good as NL.
You close to your 160 gold medals yet ?
Medal count doesn't matter.At this point Canada is in 11th place by medal count, with 16 medals. .... Right now South Korea is in 10th at 17 medals. There is basically no chance either country will make 9th, since that's currently held by Italy at 23 medals. .... BTW, The Netherlands has 15 medals, currently in 12th by medal count.
Medal count doesn't matter.
Only gold matters.
You only need 1 contestant to win the gold medal. Not a good excuse.
If the US was allowed to enter 20x as many participants in sports we compete head-to-head you might have an argument.Right now the US has 31 gold medals.
The Netherlands have 8 gold medals.
We have 17 million people in NL. The USA has 350 million people. That's 20 times more than we have. So to keep this in perspective, the US should get 160 gold medals if they want to be as good as NL.
You close to your 160 gold medals yet ?
Ok, Canada's Damian Warner just got bronze in the decathlon and Andre De Grasse got silver in the 200 m after Bolt.I don't live in the US. I live in Canada and was lamenting the fact we didn't have that many medals. At this point Canada is in 11th place by medal count, with 16 medals. I just hope they can make the top 10. Right now South Korea is in 10th at 17 medals. There is basically no chance either country will make 9th, since that's currently held by Italy at 23 medals.
BTW, The Netherlands has 15 medals, currently in 12th by medal count. Canada has roughly twice the population of The Netherlands.