That would be the Aussies! :D Winning 5 out of 12 possible gold medals at the velodrome! Easily the best cycling nation! Go you good thing, go! :D :D :D

Where were they in the Tour de France then? I mean general because of course I admit that McEwen is a good sprinter along with O'Grady, but I would say that as the best cycling nation:

France has probably the most good cyclists, while the spanish and germans aren't too bad in the mountains. It would be a hard choice.

By best, do you mean the best on a road race or in a velodrome or combined?

during the olympics they were definitely impressive, and with swimming as well.

I mean "who won the most cycling medals at the olympics". Sure France and Spain have a lot of cyclists. They also have a lot of PEOPLE. ;) The Aussies though, won the most golds, by a long, long shot. Easily the best cycling nation. :D :D :D

Cheers Johnny. I was blown away by the swimmers. Swimming and cycling are our thing it seems. (Outside cricket and Aussie rules football)

And what about baseball ? That was the biggest upset of the olympics. :D They beat Japan in the semi's and play Cuba in the finals, or is that game already played ?

Yeah, already played, Cuba won 6-2 (though there was a contentious unpiring decision that cost us runs - the Cubans had a catch that bounced off the wall accepted as an out). But silver is an amazing result. Also we beat Japan twice - once during the preliminaries, 9-4, then 1-0 during the semis. So proud of the boys!

I was so thrilled to see Stuey get his gold medal at last, and the others were just superb as well. Although, I do find it a little amusing when the media keeps saying things like 'with the doping scandal in the lead-up to the games, the cycling team has responded in the best possible way'... uh, I dunno, but I would have thought the WORST way to respond to a claim that the cyclists were on drugs was to go out and win heaps of medals :D

Note that I DON'T think any of our cyclists were on drugs, just amused by the irony of it ;)

How did they do in the road races? Cycling does not only consist of the velodrome, although I admit that 5 out of 12 isn't bad.

Australia, although behind the USA, is doing quite well I think, apparently we are doing good in hockey aswell, although I saw on the news that the Water Polo didnt go so well, and im dissapointed to see no (well none that I could see) Austalians in the weightlifting, Most running races, or any of the fighting events, but that could just be me, I havnt been waching everyday.
Anyway, yes we Australians are the BEST cycling nation. [img]smile.gif[/img]

America man. Totally.
We got Armstroung

Da woman won for Canada eh!