The Great Big A2K Fantasy Olympics Game For 2012!

It's only starting. Most of my running Kenyans, Jamaicans & Ethiopians have only just arrived at Heathrow.

This is like a marathon race. The fun is to see who leads, but what matters is who finishes on first place.

I have the same scores, which is good. How I 0nly wish I was missing 90 points somewhere...

On a side note, the Brits have finally started making some noise--but they have a lot of catching up to do!

Standings through Day 6:

1 tsartepan 301
2 George 292
3 shuho 282
4 tabormom 282
5 Iautah 275
6 jetabor 269
7 mitso23 268
8 fbaezer 262
9 Ticomaya 259
10 Skin Rip 255
11 Ecartmill 248
12 realjohnboy 247
13 ossobuco 247
14 Unsullied 247
15 melis9701 247
16 Jahiegel 246
17 tgordon92 243
18 hingehead 242
19 ehBeth 237
20 wheel158 234
21 McGentrix 229
22 markr 227
23 sdelong 222
24 Rhys 221
25 lmur 206
26 em19usa 194
27 wheel Son#1 164
28 Eagleye43 162
29 wheel Son#2 146

No changes at the top of the leaderboard. However, tomorrow is the first day of Athletics, whose 47 medals make up nearly 1/6 of the total medals up for grabs, so the race could start to change.

I have the same scores... Go Great Britain! Time for a comeback!

No thanks. I'm happy with the status quo as is.

Standings after Day 7:

1 George 367
2 shuho 362
3 tsartepan 357
4 mitso23 355
5 Iautah 354
6 fbaezer 351
7 tabormom 347
8 ossobuco 341
9 tgordon92 338
10 Skin Rip 334
11 Jahiegel 334
12 Unsullied 330
13 jetabor 330
14 hingehead 327
15 wheel158 325
16 realjohnboy 321
17 melis9701 318
18 Ticomaya 315
19 Ecartmill 315
20 markr 310
21 McGentrix 305
22 Rhys 291
23 ehBeth 282
24 sdelong 275
25 lmur 259
26 em19usa 235
27 Eagleye43 220
28 wheel Son#1 216
29 wheel Son#2 173

Tsartepan's lead is short-lived, as George moves back to the top of the standings.

Just a reminder that mixed double events count for both men's and women's medal counts for US and China, so make sure you're taking that into account when comparing your calculations to mine.

Tomorrow will see 25 gold medals awarded, the most of any day of the Olympics except for the penultimate one.

My scores are the same, except:

ehBeth 281 (you have 282)

and

wheel158_son#1 215 (you have 216)

Good call on the Mixed events -- I hadn't accounted for those, as I naively thought NBC would just add medals to both Men and Women (if the event was mixed). After seeing my scores were different, I noticed that NBC had a Mixed tab, and I've updated things on my scoresheet.

BTW, for the two different scores mentioned above, I have these countries listed:

ehBeth

China-Women 87
United States-Men 65
Canada 11
Japan 45
Netherlands 16
Czech Republic 6
Jamaica 0
Kenya 4
Kazakhstan 20
Slovakia 3
Ethiopia 5
Lithuania 5
Mexico 10
Mongolia 4
Switzerland 0
281


wheel158_son#1

Australia 36
Great Britain 66
Canada 11
Cuba 17
France 61
Brazil 12
Slovakia 3
Sweden 6
Thailand 3
Turkey 0
Armenia 0
Morocco 0
Mozambique 0
Namibia 0
Peru 0
215

I've been sans computer for a week and know nothing, nothing, re the olympics.

But, egads, Baez has edged ahead. This cannot go on!

George, my nemesis, strikes again!

19? Holy crap! At least I'm still ahead of McG ...

Thanks for the corrections, wheel. You are correct. I had a Slovakia/Slovenia mix up.

Bwahahahahah!

Yeah, I am not happy about that either. Russia has been a huge disappointment.

Results after Day 8:

1 George 435
2 shuho 432
3 tsartepan 424
4 fbaezer 420
5 tgordon92 417
6 Iautah 413
7 Jahiegel 413
8 mitso23 412
9 Unsullied 409
10 jetabor 401
11 wheel158 400
12 tabormom 400
13 hingehead 396
14 melis9701 395
15 ossobuco 394
16 Ecartmill 393
17 Skin Rip 387
18 markr 383
19 realjohnboy 380
20 ehBeth 370
21 Rhys 366
22 Ticomaya 365
23 McGentrix 360
24 sdelong 347
25 lmur 312
26 em19usa 294
27 Eagleye43 285
28 wheel Son#1 280
29 wheel Son#2 221

The top three remain the same, but there's lots of movement below them. We've reached the halfway point on the calendar, if not quite the halfway point in medal distribution.

Arrgh. I got as high as 12th or 10th...but am now sinking.

Damn it...If I left GB in and not swapped them for Russia I would be on 438

A Russia picker here too.

Grrrrr at self. I could see it the first day, when Brit women did well in football. Proprietary space and enthusiasm.

That matches mine...

I have the same scores...

I agree, lots of movement. The leaders had a huge lead, which has started to slowly shrink, now that the Athletics events have started. Really, this is anyone's game to win, and it might come down to Group D picks.

The problem with Russia isn't that they aren't winning medals--they have 28, and Great Britain has 29--they just aren't winning Gold medals (they have 3, while Great Britain has 14).

If you're curious, the best team at this point would be:

A China-Women 113
A United States-Women 104

B France 66
B South Korea 59
B Japan 52

C Kazakhstan 25
C North Korea 21
C New Zealand 19
C Romania 19
C Poland 14

D South Africa 18
D Mexico 10
D Croatia 8
D Colombia 7
D Ethiopia 6

Total: 541

Standings after Day 9:

1 fbaezer 516
2 tgordon92 512
3 shuho 511
4 Jahiegel 506
5 Iautah 499
6 Unsullied 497
7 wheel158 491
8 hingehead 489
9 tsartepan 484
10 mitso23 480
11 George 479
12 ossobuco 475
13 melis9701 475
14 markr 471
15 Ecartmill 468
16 jetabor 463
17 Skin Rip 457
18 tabormom 449
19 realjohnboy 445
20 Rhys 428
21 ehBeth 427
22 McGentrix 416
23 Ticomaya 402
24 sdelong 402
25 lmur 359
26 em19usa 344
27 Eagleye43 326
28 wheel Son#1 321
29 wheel Son#2 263

Big changes on top of the leader board, as perennial power fbaezer moves into the first spot, with yours truly in second, and shuho hanging on in third.

A couple of notes on the medal count:
1) Mixed Doubles Tennis medals were awarded today, and there was a bronze for both US Men and US Women in the event.
2) As of now, NBCOlympics.com is showing both Men's and Women's Cycling Team Pursuit on today's medal count, even though they were both contested before today. It doesn't affect the overall medal count, but could cause problems for those using the day-to-day medal counts as the basis for scoring.