Comments Thread For: U.S. Olympic Committee Not Happy, Plans Changes

[ShoulderRoll]

This clown is bragging about dominating the 1984 Olympics where 14 Eastern Bloc countries including Soviet Union, Cuba, East Germany didn't compete due to their boycott. If that isn't a perfect microcosm of the American mindset i don't know what is.

Compare it to how the Soviet Union dominated the 1980 Olympics where the US boycotted....oh wait, they only won 1 boxing gold medal.

[Khmelnytsky]

Compare it to how the Soviet Union dominated the 1980 Olympics where the US boycotted....oh wait, they only won 1 boxing gold medal.

Eastern Bloc...

Cuba 6 Gold 10 total
USSR 1 Gold 8 total
East Germany 6
Bulgaria 2
Poland 5
Hungary 2
Czechoslovakia 1

If every country besides the USSR participated in 1980 and Cuba, Poland, East Germany, Bulgaria were there i'm sure the US medal count would look the same as it did lol

[JAB5239]

Eastern Bloc...

Cuba 6 Gold 10 total
USSR 1 Gold 8 total
East Germany 6
Bulgaria 2
Poland 5
Hungary 2
Czechoslovakia 1

If every country besides the USSR participated in 1980 and Cuba, Poland, East Germany, Bulgaria were there i'm sure the US medal count would look the same as it did lol

Am I wrong or is Cuba considered only an ally and not an eastern block country?

[Khmelnytsky]

Am I wrong or is Cuba considered only an ally and not an eastern block country?

Yes you're right that refers to the Eastern and Central European Warsaw Pact members. Communist Bloc would be more fitting to describe the boycott since other communist countries and Soviet allies like Cuba and North Korea also participated.

[JAB5239]

Yes you're right that refers to the Eastern and Central European Warsaw Pact members. Communist Bloc would be more fitting to describe the boycott since other communist countries and Soviet allies like Cuba and North Korea also participated.

Its all good. In all honestly Im really not up on any kind of political talk, its just not my thing.

Love your Jirov sig, he was one of my favorite fighters. I had the pleasure of watching him from ringside against Toney. Although he lost I always considered it his best and gutsiest performance.

[ShoulderRoll]

Eastern Bloc...

Cuba 6 Gold 10 total
USSR 1 Gold 8 total
East Germany 6
Bulgaria 2
Poland 5
Hungary 2
Czechoslovakia 1

If every country besides the USSR participated in 1980 and Cuba, Poland, East Germany, Bulgaria were there i'm sure the US medal count would look the same as it did lol

Why did you list the total medals? If you look at just gold this is what the Eastern Bloc managed to do with the US not being there:

USSR 1
East Germany 1
Bulgaria 1
Poland 1
Yugoslavia 1

If USA Boxing had participated in the Moscow games it's not hard at all to picture the USSR winning 0 golds. Especially with the caliber of boxers we had back then.

[Hitman932]

Yes you're right that refers to the Eastern and Central European Warsaw Pact members. Communist Bloc would be more fitting to describe the boycott since other communist countries and Soviet allies like Cuba and North Korea also participated.

You know you are a ****ty excuse for a country when you rely on North Korea to be an ally.