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Jobb Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Americans make medal stand

I didn't get "make medal stand" exactly. It seems "make medal stand up for them".

Context:
Americans make medal stand, take silver
By Greg Boeck, USA TODAY
ATHENS — The U.S. men's gymnastics team came into the Olympics with a unified motto: "One Team, One Dream."
  

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Jobb, It's a title "Americans make medal stand, take silver" Titles are not always gramatically correct. In this case, it is simply saying that an American athlete or team has won a silver medal. The "medal stand" refers to the medal standings, a list of how many medals each country has won.

— MountainHiker

  • Jobb, It's a title "Americans make medal stand, take silver" Titles are not always gramatically correct.
  • In this case, it is simply saying that an American athlete or team has won a silver medal.
  • The "medal stand" refers to the medal standings, a list of how many medals each country has won.
  • You can see the medal standings here.
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Jobb,

It's a title "Americans make medal stand, take silver" Titles are not always gramatically correct.

In this case, it is simply saying that an American athlete or team has won a silver medal. The "medal stand" refers to the medal standings, a list of how many medals each country has won. You can see the medal standings here.

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I couldn't have guessed without your quotation, MtHiker, but I think that it means they 'made a stand' like Custer did-- they

'determine[d]...they would be in the medals ceremony...' and copped a silver medal at least.

And thanks for the Athens website-- as usual I would never have thought to go looking for that on the internet-- now I don't have to wait for the morning paper
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MM,

With regard to your guess on the interpretation, you could well be right. That's the problem with short titles, isn't it?
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