Every Medal Counts: Archive

Aug 22nd

USA: 490 China:449 Russia:371 James sent me a text at 7:56 this morning telling me that it’s time to wave the white flag. I kicked him off of the team. jerk!

Aug 22nd

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Every Team is IN!

Every country that was drafted is now a medal earning country. (except wild card teams..) This is awesome! Here are the results today, expect another one soon since we’re closing in on the end of the games. USA: 456, bastards China: 397 Russia: 327 I’m still serious about Russia’s threat. They’ve risen to be the third highest country in medals, which is what we were...

Aug 21st

Aug 18th

USA takes the lead again

USA: 333 Must be all of those Phelps golds! China: 312 Russia: 230 There’s still a week left! Don’t give up, Russia. We are just now getting to a lot of the finals. I’m still expecting it to get closer. Don’t forget that you can e-mail me any links to articles about your team, pictures of you flipping the bird at Michael Phelps, or whatever else you want to add to the...

Aug 18th

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Don't call it a comeback

I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia made a nice return. All I hear on the news is that Russia is always in the top three and it won’t be long. The lead is narrowing and there’s still plenty of time. China is only ahead of Russia by 56 points. That’s just 10 gold, 10 silver and 6 bronze. Between the whole team, that’s not a huge stretch. Here’s the update for this...

Aug 14th

livejamie: I personally would like to welcome the North Korean Olympic athletes to the outside world, it’s neat isn’t it? They seem to be adjusting pretty well.

Aug 14th

Aug 13th

Updated 8/12/08 at 1pm

USA takes the lead with 103 China- 93 Russia- 66 (Shouldn’t have had so many drinks while you were picking your team, huh?)

Aug 12th

Thanks Jesse!

Jesse, even though he was on vacation, was carrying his roster on him when I talked to him on the phone. Luckily he had Lee’s team completed and Lee now has added Uzbekistan (and their one bronze) to team Russia.

Aug 11th