Do you think china is winning so many medals because they are the home nation?

Question

they've got the most medals this year but usually they're not really at the top..

Answer 1

The home team almost always do better when it comes to the olympics.  I'm sure they trained twice as hard because of it.  

China has great athletes

Answer 2

Leroy J is a idiot, report him. Yeah i think its because there the home nation because they feel confident of themselves at home.

Answer 3

WHY CANT U DIGEST IT THAT THEY ARE ,,,BETTER ,,THAN YOU ,THEY WERE PREPARING FOR THIS EVENT FOR YEARS ,WHILE U WERE WHINING .

Answer 4

two answers for this question,

first, they are the largest team

and second, they are the rudest team in the history page of olympic, they would do anything to just win the gold medal, just watch this video and you will know what i mean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYo_5Wr-...

Answer 5

no china is actually pretty good because they push their athletes 2 b the best they are dominated

Answer 6

China's poured a lot of money into the Olympics - not only into the ceremonies and structures, but in sponsoring their athletes. That goes a long way in their training, so I'm not surprised they're performing better. They've been backed up with the funds to devote time to their sports.  

Answer 7

its comonplace for the host nation to do well as most invest a considerable amount of time and efforst in the preceding years, part and parcel of the package.....

Answer 8

Well, they don't have the most medals as of today - USA is ahead by about 5; but I do think the fact that because the Olympics are in Beijing, there is a certain amount of home team advantage.  The crowds go wild for the Chinese athletes, so you know they are getting a lot of emotional / support to give them that extra adrenaline rush.  Nothing like trying to please the crowd, especially when national pride is at stake.

Answer 9

considering how big and how many ppl live in china im not surprised they have some good athlets, plus china is ahead of us in terms of technology so that always helps

Answer 10

If you are implying that the venues and judges are rigged, that couldn't be possible. All the Olympic venues are checked by international IOC teams before the games began.

Judges, umpires and referees are from all different IOC member countries.

Besides, the games aren't even at half-done yet. The Chinese always lead early on when the gymnastics, synch. diving and table tennis events are on. Once the athletics are on, the US medal count will climb back up.