Conquest
For those keeping score at home, USC athletes at the Olympics won a total of 21 medals: 9 gold, 10 silver, and 2 bronze. Not a bad percentage, considering there were 41 Trojan Olympians competing in 54 events. Twenty-one medals in 54 tries -- they're batting .389!
This is nothing new for USC, of course. Trojans have historically enjoyed unparalleled success at the Olympics. There has been at least one gold medalist from USC in every Olympics since 1912.
This year, if USC were a country, it would be 13th in the overall medal count (between Cuba, with 24 medals, and Belarus, with 19), and tied with Japan for eighth in terms of golds. Only China, America, Russia, Britain, Germany, Australia and South Korea won more gold medals than "Trojan Nation."
More importantly, the Trojans whooped the Bruins in Beijing. UCLA only got 13 medals: 4 gold, 7 silver, 2 bronze. Bwah-ha-ha.
If only I'd thought to make a bet with Tran on this...
This is nothing new for USC, of course. Trojans have historically enjoyed unparalleled success at the Olympics. There has been at least one gold medalist from USC in every Olympics since 1912.
This year, if USC were a country, it would be 13th in the overall medal count (between Cuba, with 24 medals, and Belarus, with 19), and tied with Japan for eighth in terms of golds. Only China, America, Russia, Britain, Germany, Australia and South Korea won more gold medals than "Trojan Nation."
More importantly, the Trojans whooped the Bruins in Beijing. UCLA only got 13 medals: 4 gold, 7 silver, 2 bronze. Bwah-ha-ha.
If only I'd thought to make a bet with Tran on this...
posted by Brendan Loy at
8/25/2008 07:35:00 AM
