Me….
Because I didn’t watch ANY of the Olympics. Not a fan… 
My wInner is China , great nation 
(in fact greatest!!!)
There is no individual winner, winner is China
PS: Collective has more power than one individual and thats why China is winner and not Michael Phelps.
Haha, Big Pharma is (are?) always a winner, but I think its not safe to bet on them anymore 
Ok, just dont become stalker
For me also the winner would be who gets more fun from the games (after China, China is reall winner and some coutnries, forbidden to mention i negative context, are loosers )
I think among women volleyball players there is much collectivity and I dont know, it seems like that, women are most times better than men in some qualities, more patient, tolerant etc
No doubt about it Michael Phelps.
Nobody will probably in 3 lifetimes ever break his gold medal record let alone his total medal record.
mmmm they win… we got nothing…
If you are stupid enough you can be happy because they won for more than half an hour
We will wait for 9 years to see weather his medals are real
Its totally suspicious.
Meaning? Please do explain. This ought to be good.
What irritates me heavily around sports that it is given much more attention (media, financial etc) than it objectively deserves. In some countries more so than others. Also, what irritates me next about it, are totally stupid statements of people around sports (journalists, players themselves, coaches, audience). Sometime they talk about so simple things like they are, I dont know, important philosophical questions or something of outmost importance in our lives.
I mean, retirement system shattered, healthcare on low levels, education not good, children go to poor schools, older folk die in bad retirement homes without enough care, and there is more talk about sport than all of these areas together.
For me thats more than stupid.
You know what Im talking about. When technology in some laboratories becomes more advanced, we will be 100% percent sure
So your saying Phelps is a roid user.
That I highly doubt. And he has passed all test. Just like all the other folks from your country has done that didn’t win. LOL!
I hate a sore loser.
No, totally not, Im just saying that it can be suspicios to someone
I don’t see evidences that Phelps is taking any advantage, in fact I find sad he was punished for smoking like a monkey, as it does not improve at all how good he swims etc, only a bad example for kids, and it is up to him to smoke whatever he wants if it makes him happy :bigsmile:
As someone said at work the other day, Phelps is so dang good that he can smoke dope and still win. Sad but true.
+1
Says the guy who was whining about an American suspecting a Chinese athlete was doping?
Now I’m starting to think you’re just trying to stir the pot here 
I’m not a big Phelps fan, but look at the guy. He’s biologically designed for swimming. He has nearly the perfect attributes, which certainly gives him an advantage over most.
Not that I dislike Olympoics. I like to watch it, especially because there are sports on it which are usually not on TV.
Here in Europe usually everything is about football (soccer), in newspapers TV etc, and Im, personally, full of it.
I enjoy watching gymnastics for example, it can be really exciting. But as a person who often thinks, when watching a movie for example, hot it was made, and how “real” is it, during gymnastics program I also sometimes think about how these people came to that level of skill and was that process positive for them, in total, as human beings.
I wasnt too serious about Phelps (although someone can indeed be suspicious about his accomplishment ), but also, on the other hand, ti should be noted that our oppinions are in some part or the other formed by how media are reporting about something.
And of course we in most of Europe (not to mention USA media) are totally under influence of anglosaxon media. Wich report of Phelps’ “unhuman” accomplishments and fast advancing as a product of his body characteristics etc, and when talking about Ye from some different angle.
In almost all other parts of the world (around 3 quarters of the world) they tend to report about same events, very often I think, from different angle etc, weather these parts of the world are “democratic” or “not democratic”. Democracy is also very relative thing, and also thing of perception as everything, and this perception is again under heavy influence of media…
Nevertheless I think China is indeed a winner And I hope that theyll have twice as much medals than any next nation on next Olympics