Australia (bless its cotton socks) has decided that Silver is the new Gold:
And congratulations to Valerie Adams on a silver medal in the women's shot putt overnight. She was beaten by a better athlete on the night, with Nadzeya Ostapchuk three times exceeding Adams' best-ever throw.
There's no shame at all about being beaten by a better athlete on the day, and we're sure that Adams will rebound from the loss of her Olympic title. She still has as many years of competition ahead of her as she chooses. Valerie Adams is still a magnificent athlete.
2 comments:
I guess if we had so many silvers and one gold it would be tempting to do the same. While I can accept that there can be only one winner to any competition (barring a dead heat), I do think that getting a silver medal is still a significant achievement and can't really understand how a country with only 1 gold medal can be ranked ahead of another country that may have a heap of silver and bronzes. I would suggest that two bronzes should equal one silver and two silvers be the equivalent of one gold for comparison purposes.
Here is an interesting site that relates the medal count to population or GDP and produces different rankings. New Zealand is currently lying second for the number of medals per head of population.
http://www.medalspercapita.com/#medals-per-capita:2012
I see that Oz are going to have an enquiry into why their swimmers did so poorly.
Simple- if they were good swimmers, they'd be Kiwis now!
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