| camilosanchez16 said: I'm Colombian, and since our government shows zero interest in any sport different than football, our people struggle really hard to get there, in my opinion, we were both better and worst, while we got 3 Golds (our national record), in total we got 8 medals (3G, 2S, 3B), the same as in London (1G, 3S, 4B), knowing the fact that people who won medal in London underperformed here. Aside everything, we expected just two golds which became reality (BMX and Triple Jump), the third one (Weightlifting) was a surprise. |
I´d say that Colombia did much better than expected. It´s very hard for any country to confirm all gold medals expected, even when they´re just a few.
Colombian sports have been growing steadly since you guys hosted the South American Games in Medellin 2010. You even surpassed Argentina and Mexico in last year´s Pan Am Games and got some world titles in Track Cycling. Although the situation of investiment in olympic sports seems similar to what happens in my country, I think you guys must be doing something right ; )
By the way.... what happened to Jossimar Calvo Moreno ? He did so great last year in Pan Am´s and several World Cups, won medals with very high scores and couldn´t even qualifiy to any men´s individual finals in Gymnastics. I really really wanted him and Larduet from Cuba to perform well in Rio.
