2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad and informally as London 2012, will be held in London from July 27 through August 12. This makes London the first city to host the Games three times - the previous occasions being in 1908 and 1948. The Olympic Games have pagan origins; the torch relay was first used for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Nazi Berlin. During the Modern Olympic Games, the pagan origins of the Olympics have been replaced by faith-based achievement by the participating athletes.

Athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees will be participating. Sports contests having the greatest political interest are:

Sport	Political issue	Answer
Multiple	How many athletes will be unfairly expelled based on liberal censorship of their free speech?	One athlete -- Greek triple-jumper Voula Papachristou -- was expelled from the Greek National team by her own country's Olympic committee before it officially opened based on a one-sentence joke about immigration, even though she apologized. The joke in question was this from her Twitter: "With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!" It should be noted that Papachristou apologized for the tweet. In addition to the Greek Olympic Committee's decision on Papachristou, the IOC's own twitter-use policy has been criticized for hindering free speech. The policy, which is claimed to protect the IOC's commercial rights, goes as far as to prevent athletes from "reporting on events". According to The Globe and Mail, even a tweet such as "Won our games against China, USA. Next up, the Brazilians," could get an athlete expelled from the Games without notice. As of yet, no athletes have been expelled by the IOC for this social media censorship policy. Lolo Jones, a pro-abstinence American hurdler, is being criticized by the lamestream media for sending out a pro-Second Amendment tweet. The liberal thought police expelled a Swiss soccer player for tweeting that South Koreans are "retards."
Opening Ceremonies	Will Overrated Sports Star David Beckham be selected to light the Olympic cauldron?	Beckham was not selected as the final torchbearer. He was, however, a passenger on the speedboat that carried the torch up the River Thames. He assisted in the hand-off of the torch to Sir Steve Redgrave, one of Britain's greatest Olympians. Sebastian Coe, chairman of London 2012, stated, "He [Beckham] will be more than an ambassador given what he has done, the commitment he has given and the amount of time he has spent with us in London on this project. He was not only alongside us when we won [the right to host the Olympics], he was alongside us when we threw our hats in the ring."
Multiple	will atheist nations underachieve in team sports?	In women's soccer, France finished with two wins and a loss and came in second in their group, which also included the United States (see below). They will face Sweden in the quarterfinals. Great Britain finished with a perfect 3-0-0 record and will face Canada in the quarterfinals. On the men's side, Great Britain tied its first game against Senegal and defeated the United Arab Emirates in its second game. They need at least a tie against Uruguay to advance to the quarterfinals. France failed to qualify. Australia failed to qualify for either soccer event. This was their first time attempting to qualify out of the Asian Zone instead of the significantly weaker Oceanic Zone, so this may have been a factor. They will, however, send teams in most other team sports, since they qualify from the Oceanic Zone in those. In women's basketball, France is 2-0, Australia is 1-1, and Great Britain is 0-2. All three are in the same six-team group, from which the top 4 advance to the quarterfinals. In women's handball, Great Britain is 0-2 and France is 1-1. The top four in each of the two groups advance to the quarterfinals. In men's basketball, Great Britain and Australia, both in Group B, are 0-2. France, in Group A, is 1-1. The top four in each group advance to the quarterfinals. In men's volleyball, Australia split its first two games, while Great Britain is 0-2. The top 4 in each group advance to the quarterfinals. In women's volleyball, Great Britain is 1-1. Again, the top 4 teams out of 6 advance to the quarterfinals.
Multiple	Similarly, will atheist nations underachieve in general?	Increasingly atheistic Great Britain did not win its first gold medal until Day 5 (August 1), despite having all the advantages of being the host nation. China, an officially atheist and communist country, leads the standings with 13 gold medals. Despite having more than three times the population of the United States and despite having a national program designed to produce champion athletes, China is trailing the USA in total medals (24-23) part of the way into Day 5, and has 13 gold medals to the United States's 9. Somewhat atheistic France is a distant third in total golds with 4. Australia has 1 gold and 6 total medals.
Multiple	How many athletes will do the equivalent of Tebowing after a victory? American Meb Keflezighi, who won the silver medal in the marathon in 2004, typically gives glory to God with the sign of the Cross after finishing a race.	TBA
Multiple	Will almost no athletes from public school sports programs win any gold medals, despite how public schools spend more than $500 billion annually to teach and train Americans?	TBA
wrestling	have feminist Title IX quotas destroyed the U.S. team?	TBA
men's basketball	will selfless play by outspoken Christian Kevin Durant overcome ball-hogging by Overrated Sports Stars Kobe Bryant and LeBron James on USA Basketball?	After a slow start, the United States beat France 98-71 in their first game. LeBron James had 9 points in 25 minutes, while Kobe Bryant was limited to 12 minutes but scored 10 points. Kevin Durant led all players from both teams with 22 points.
men's tennis	will one of the Greatest Conservative Sports Stars -- such as Novak Djokovic -- win the gold medal? Will Andy Murray of atheistic Britain underperform?	Both players won their first three matches to advance to the quarterfinals. Murray will face Nicolas Almagro of Spain, while Djokovic will face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France. The winners of those two matches will meet in the semifinals.
8-month pregnant athlete	Will the lamestream media report on Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi of Malaysia, who is competing while being 8 months pregnant, or does that send too pro-life of a message?	Taibi was eliminated from the Olympics on the first day of official competition after finishing in 34th place. Few articles mentioned her prior to her elimination; there was more publicity about her after her defeat. The New York Times ran an article on the athlete on 16 July 2012, The Guardian and ESPN both reported on her results in the competition.
women's soccer	ranked #1 and won the gold in the last two Olympics, most recently with a foreign coach. Now that this U.S. team is politically correct, will it underachieve? Major rivals will be Japan, Brazil and France.	Went 3-0 in their group to advance to the quarterfinals. They will face New Zealand on August 3 at 2:30 PM local time, which is 9:30 AM on the East Coast of the USA.
Gun events	Will the lamestream media downplay the gun events because they want to continue to push gun control?	They have been largely ignored. However, other minor sports with little national following have been equally ignored. See the entry above on the Malaysian shooter for an exception to this lack of coverage.
Openly homosexual athletes	Will the liberal media overpromote homosexual athletes, far beyond their achievements?
Multiple	Will countries that have implemented same-sex marriage underperform? (See below for a more lengthy explanation)	Too early to tell. All countries are below their expected total (see chart below) so far, but this would be expected since so few events have been completed.
Men's Handball	Will heavy underdogs Tunisia overperform in Group A? Group A should perhaps be dubbed the "Group of Left", since the other five teams are Sweden, Iceland, and Argentina, where same-sex marriage is legal, and increasingly atheistic Great Britain and France.	They lost to Sweden in their first game, 28-21. This was followed by a 32-22 loss to Iceland. Next up is France on August 2 at 11:15 AM local, 5:15 AM on the East coast of the United States. The top four in each six team group advance to the quarterfinals, which are single elimination. They are a long shot, but other than last place would be unexpectedly good.

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Nations that have implemented equality

Argentina

Argentina's Olympic medals in the Summer Games

Year and location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1900 Paris	0	0	0	0
1904 St. Louis	Did not participate
1908 London	0	0	0	0
1912 Stockholm	Did not participate
1920 Antwerp	0	0	0	0
1924 Paris	1	3	2	6
1928 Amsterdam	3	3	1	7
1932 Los Angeles	3	1	0	4
1936 Berlin	2	2	3	7
1948 London	3	3	1	7
1952 Helsinki	1	2	2	5
1956 Melbourne/Stockholm	0	1	1	2
1960 Rome	0	1	1	2
1964 Tokyo	0	1	0	1
1968 Mexico City	0	0	2	2
1972 Munich	0	1	0	1
1976 Montreal	0	0	0	0
1980 Moscow	Did not participate
1984 Los Angeles	0	0	0	0
1988 Seoul	0	1	1	2
1992 Barcelona	0	0	1	1
1996 Atlanta	0	2	1	3
2000 Sydney	0	2	2	4
2004 Athens	2	0	4	6
2008 Beijing	2	0	4	6
July 22, 2010
2012 London	?	?	?	?
Total	17	23	26	66

Belgium

Belgium's Olympic medals in the Summer Games

Year and location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1896 Athens	Did not participate
1900 Paris	5	5	5	15
1904 St. Louis	Did not participate
1908 London	1	5	2	8
1912 Stockholm	2	1	3	6
1920 Antwerp (host)	14	11	11	36
1924 Paris	3	7	3	13
1928 Amsterdam	0	1	2	3
1932 Los Angeles	0	0	0	0
1936 Berlin	0	0	2	2
1948 London	2	2	3	7
1952 Helsinki	2	2	0	4
1956 Stockholm/Melbourne	0	2	0	2
1960 Rome	0	2	2	4
1964 Tokyo	2	0	1	3
1968 Mexico City	0	1	1	2
1972 Munich	0	2	0	2
1976 Montreal	0	3	3	6
1980 Moscow	1	0	0	1
1984 Los Angeles	1	1	2	4
1988 Seoul	0	0	2	2
1992 Barcelona	0	1	2	3
1996 Atlanta	2	2	2	6
2000 Sydney	0	2	3	5
January 30, 2003
2004 Athens	1	0	2	3
2008 Beijing	1	1	0	2
2012 London	?	?	?	?
Total	37	51	51	139

Canada

Canada's Olympic medals in the Summer Games

Year and location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1896 Athens	did not compete
1900 Paris	1	0	1	2
1904 St. Louis	4	1	1	6
1908 London	3	3	10	16
1912 Stockholm	3	2	3	8
1920 Antwerp	3	3	3	9
1924 Paris	0	3	1	4
1928 Amsterdam	4	4	7	15
1932 Los Angeles	2	5	8	15
1936 Berlin	1	3	5	9
1948 London	0	1	2	3
1952 Helsinki	1	2	0	3
1956 Stockholm/Melbourne	2	1	3	6
1960 Rome	0	1	0	1
1964 Tokyo	1	2	1	4
1968 Mexico City	1	3	1	5
1972 Munich	0	2	3	5
1976 Montreal (host)	0	5	6	11
1980 Moscow	did not compete
1984 Los Angeles	10	18	16	44
1988 Seoul	3	2	5	10
1992 Barcelona	7	4	7	18
1996 Atlanta	3	11	8	22
2000 Sydney	3	3	8	14
2004 Athens	3	6	3	12
July 20, 2005
2008 Beijing	3	9	6	18
2012 London	?	?	?	?
Total	58	94	108	260

Denmark

Denmark's Olympic medals in the Summer Games

Year and location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1896 Athens	1	2	3	6
1900 Paris	1	3	2	6
1904 St. Louis	did not participate
1908 London	0	2	3	5
1912 Stockholm	1	6	5	12
1920 Antwerp	3	9	1	13
1924 Paris	2	5	2	9
1928 Amsterdam	3	1	2	6
1932 Los Angeles	0	3	3	6
1936 Berlin	0	2	3	5
1948 London	5	7	8	20
1952 Helsinki	2	1	3	6
1956 Melbourne/Stockholm	1	2	1	4
1960 Rome	2	3	1	6
1964 Tokyo	2	1	3	6
1968 Mexico City	1	4	3	8
1972 Munich	1	0	0	1
1976 Montreal	1	0	2	3
1980 Moscow	2	1	2	5
1984 Los Angeles	0	3	3	6
1988 Seoul	2	1	1	4
1992 Barcelona	1	1	4	6
1996 Atlanta	4	1	1	6
2000 Sydney	2	3	1	6
2004 Athens	2	0	6	8
2008 Beijing	2	2	3	7
June 15, 2012
2012 London	?	?	?	?
Total	41	63	66	170

Iceland

Iceland's Olympic medals in the Summer Games

Year and location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1896 Athens	Did not participate
1900 Paris	Did not participate
1904 St. Louis	did not participate
1908 London	Did not participate
1912 Stockholm	0	0	0	0
1920 Antwerp	Did not participate
1924 Paris	Did not participate
1928 Amsterdam	Did not participate
1932 Los Angeles	Did not participate
1936 Berlin	0	0	0	0
1948 London	0	0	0	0
1952 Helsinki	0	0	0	0
1956 Melbourne/Stockholm	0	1	0	1
1960 Rome	0	0	0	0
1964 Tokyo	0	0	0	0
1968 Mexico City	0	0	0	0
1972 Munich	0	0	0	0
1976 Montreal	0	0	0	0
1980 Moscow	0	0	0	0
1984 Los Angeles	0	0	1	1
1988 Seoul	0	0	0	0
1992 Barcelona	0	0	0	0
1996 Atlanta	0	0	0	0
2000 Sydney	0	0	1	1
2004 Athens	0	0	0	0
2008 Beijing	0	1	0	1
June 27, 2010
2012 London	?	?	?	?
Total	0	2	2	4

Netherlands

The Netherland's Olympic medals in the Summer Games

Year and location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1896 Athens	did not participate
1900 Paris	0	1	3	4
1904 St. Louis	did not participate
1908 London	0	0	2	2
1912 Stockholm	0	0	3	3
1920 Antwerp	4	2	5	11
1924 Paris	4	1	5	10
1928 Amsterdam (host)	6	9	4	19
1932 Los Angeles	2	5	0	7
1936 Berlin	6	4	7	17
1948 London	5	2	9	16
1952 Helsinki	0	5	0	5
1956 Stockholm/Melbourne	did not participate
1960 Rome	0	1	2	3
1964 Tokyo	2	4	4	10
1968 Mexico City	3	3	1	7
1972 Munich	3	1	1	5
1976 Montreal	0	2	3	5
1980 Moscow	0	1	2	3
1984 Los Angeles	5	2	6	13
1988 Seoul	2	2	5	9
1992 Barcelona	2	6	7	15
1996 Atlanta	4	5	10	19
2000 Sydney	12	9	4	25
April 1, 2001
2004 Athens	4	9	9	22
2008 Beijing	7	5	4	16
2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London	?	?	?	?
Total	71	79	96	246

Sweden

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Nations that are increasingly reasonable[

• Britain
• France
• Australia

Winners

Individual Events

Athlete	Go World!

Team Events

Event	Country	Religious Category
Women's 4x100m Freestyle (Swimming)	Australia	Down Under
Men's Team Archery	Italy	Cool people
Women's Team Archery	South Korea	The best in the world
Men's 4x100m Freestyle (Swimming)	France	The out-touchers
Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard (Diving)	China	The best in the world
Men's Synchronized 10m Platform (Diving)	China	Fun
Men's Artistic Team All-round (Gymnastics)	China	Good people

Expected Medals

There are many factors that contribute to a countries success in the Olympics (population, proximity host country, culture) and Gross Domestic Product cannot be used as a fair proxy, due to low-GDP China comfortably coming first in the 2008 Olympics and Russia ranking third. Below is how the Olympic medals would be awarded if each country earned medals in proportion to their GDP, which vastly overestimates the United States' performance.

Country	Expected Medals
Afghanistan	0.2
Albania	0.2
Andorra	0.1
Antigua and Barbuda	0
Angola	1.2
Algeria	2.3
Argentina	5.3
Armenia	0.1
Aruba	0
Australia	16.2
Austria	5.4
Azerbaijan	0.7
Bahamas	0.1
Bangladesh	1.4
Barbados	0
Burundi	0
Belgium	6.7
Belize	0
Benin	0.1
Bermuda	0.1
Bhutan	0
Bolivia	0.3
Bosnia-Herzegovina	0.2
Bahrain	0.3
Botswana	0.2
Belarus	0.8
Brazil	29.9
Virgin Islands	0
Bulgaria	0.7
Burkina Faso	0.1
Cameroon	0.3
Cambodia	0.2
Canada	22.6
Cayman Islands	0
Central African Republic	0
Chad	0.1
Chile	3
China	98.8
Taiwan	7.2
Colombia	4.1
Comoros	0
Cape Verde	0
Congo	0.2
Cook Islands	0
Costa Rica	0.5
Cote-d´lvoire	0.3
Croatia	0.9
Cuba	0.9
Cyprus	0.4
Czech Republic	2.8
Denmark	4.4
Djibouti	0
Dominica	0
Dominican Republic	0.7
Ecuador	0.8
Egypt	3.1
El Salvador	0.3
Equatorial Guinea	0.2
Eritrea	0
Estonia	0.3
Ethiopia	0.4
Fiji	0
Finland	3.4
France	39.8
Gabon	0.2
Gambia	0
Germany	47
Ghana	0.4
United Kingdom	32.4
Guinea-Bissau	0
Georgia	0.2
Greece	4.3
Grenada	0
Guam	0
Guatemala	0.6
Guinea	0.1
Guyana	0
Haiti	0.1
Honduras	0.2
Hong Kong	3.2
Hungary	1.8
Iceland	0.2
India	24.7
Indonesia	10.1
Iran	4.7
Iraq	1.2
Ireland	3
Italy	29.5
Israel	3.1
Jamaica	0.2
Japan	78.2
Jordan	0.4
Kazakhstan	2.3
Kyrgyzstan	0.1
Kenya	0.4
South Korea	14.8
North Korea	0.4
Kuwait	2
Laos	0.1
Latvia	0.4
Saint Lucia	0
Lebanon	0.5
Lesotho	0
Libya	0.9
Lichtenstein	0.1
Luxembourg	0.8
Macedonia	0.1
Madagascar	0.1
Malawi	0.1
Malaysia	3.3
Moldova	0.1
Marshall Islands	0
Maldives	0
Malta	0.1
Mali	0.1
Mauritania	0.2
Mauritius	0.1
Mexico	16.2
Micronesia	0
Monaco	0.1
Montenegro	0.1
Mongolia	0.1
Morocco	1.3
Mozambique	0.1
Myanmar	0.7
Namibia	0.2
Nepal	0.2
Netherlands	11.2
New Zealand	1.8
Nicaragua	0.1
Niger	0.1
Niger	0.1
Norway	5.9
Oman	0.7
Pakistan	2.4
Palau	0
Panama	0.4
Papua New Guinea	0.1
Paraguay	0.3
Peru	2.3
Philippines	2.9
Poland	6.7
Portugal	3.3
Puerto Rico	1.4
Qatar	1.4
Romania	2.3
Rwanda	0.1
Saint Lucia	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0
Samoa	0
San Marino	0
Saudi Arabia	6.2
Seychelles	0
Sierra Leone	0
Senegal	0.2
Slovenia	0.7
Solomon Islands	0
South Africa	5.2
Sri Lanka	0.7
Slovakia	1.3
Swaziland	0.1
Serbia	0.6
Singapore	3
Spain	20.2
Sudan	0.9
Suriname	0
Syria	0.8
Sweden	6.6
Switzerland	7.6
Tanzania	0.3
Tonga	0
Thailand	4.6
Togo	0
Trinidad and Tobago	0.3
Tajikistan	0.1
Timor-Leste	0
Turkmenistan	0.3
Tunisia	0.6
Turkey	10.5
Tuvalu	0
Uganda	0.2
Ukraine	2
United Arab Emirates	4.3
United States	209
Uruguay	0.6
Uzbekistan	0.6
Vanuatu	0
Venezuela	5.6
Vietnam	1.5
Yemen	0.4
Zambia	0.2
Zimbabwe	0.1

Commemmoration

The 2012 games mark the 40th anniversary of 11 Israeli Olympic team members taken hostage and killed by Palestinian terrorist group Black September. The Internal Olympic Committee has been urged to offer a commemorative moment of silence for the athletes at the opening ceremony. The IOC has rejected the moment of silence or any mention of the tragic event so as not to upset other countries. Sportscaster Bob Costas says NBC will honor the Munich 11 despite IOC’s refusal to allow it.

NBC Coverage

Scorn for Comcast's NBC coverage of the Olympic games hit America coast to coast. Viewers have taken to the internet with the trend #NBCfail for days now. The groans began at the opening ceremony when American viewers were denied the tribute to British victims of terrorism. As the games moved forward, live events were interrupted or had already finished, replaced with commercials and NBC commentators talking about the athletes. It has been reported the Comcast spent $1 billion for the rights to televise the 2012 Olympics.

See also

• Schedule and Results