SubscribeThere's no 'I' in team, but there sure is in China
August 30, 2008 at 2:13 a.m.
China won gold at more events than any other country in the Olympics, but it didn't take home the most gold medals, as Duke University political scientist Michael Allen Gillespie points out (via Tim Johnson). The reason: Americans dominated the team events, while Chinese athletes excelled in individual sports.
If one looks over all of the Olympic sports, Americans took home 118 gold medals, 99 silver medals and 76 bronze medals, while the Chinese took home 76 gold, 35 silver and 38 bronze medals. That is 293 total medals for the USA to 149 for China.The point here ...
We'll watch how we want to
August 10, 2008 at 8:02 a.m.
I'm watching the Olympics right now. I've been watching since early Friday morning, on TV and online, with and without the help of NBC.
The network has been the sole broadcaster of the Olympics as long as I've been watching television, but that monopoly is clearly ebbing. Yesterday morning, while I was sitting through an insufferable pre-taped Today show (summary: Isn't China weird?!?), my friends back in China were watching the opening ceremonies in Beijing live and telling me all about it over Twitter. Meanwhile, others were doing whatever they could to get around NBC's ...
