The US Olympic medal table

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    Quote Originally Posted by fm7:
    The nationalism thing has always been the strength and weakness of the games. It's great to see the smaller nations win medals, especially when they shine certain sports, overcome former colonial powers or simply beat the odds. But, the chauvinism of bigger (and some sport obsessed) countries is sad.

    Oh and the medal tally is gold, then other medals. But, the US are not the first to rearrange the tally to make themselves look better.
    good post.

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    A couple of months ago there were several bars in HK showing a Hull match - can't remember that for an ice hockey match (is it televised at all outside of the few countries that play it professionally). Who were the dream team? Like the X team but looking into sleep?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamton:
    So, it seems in the USA they're sorting the Olympics medal table by 'total medals won' rather than golds, putting the USA first!
    In my opinion:
    medal count = total # of medals won
    Gold medal count = total # of Gold medals won


    I like to see the breakdown (total medals won) per capita:
    The top 10:

    1. Bahamas (1) - 307,451
    2. Jamaica (7) - 311,592
    3. Slovenia (5) - 401,542
    4. New Zealand (9) - 463,717
    5. Australia (38) - 542,127
    6. Armenia (5) - 593,717
    7. Estonia (2) - 653,802
    8. Lithuania (5) - 713,041
    9. Bahrain (1) - 718,306
    10. Belarus (13) - 745,059

    Selected Others (among the top 80):

    11. Georgia (6) - 771,806
    13. Cuba (14) - 815,996
    31. Canada (15) - 2,214,179
    34. Germany (31) - 2,657,082
    40. Zimbabwe (4) - 3,095,730
    41. United States (95) - 3,198,154
    42. Panama (1) - 3,292,693
    57. Dominican Republic (1) - 9,507,133
    67. Brazil (8) - 23,988,574
    70. Venezuela (1) - 26,414,815
    found here: Medals Per Capita table

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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    Who were the dream team? Like the X team but looking into sleep?
    What?

    Actually there are several places showing ice hockey in HK and even a healthy league where people get to whack at each other. Not enough of a fan of any spectator sports to go out and watch ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by gilleshk:
    What?

    Actually there are several places showing ice hockey in HK and even a healthy league where people get to whack at each other. Not enough of a fan of any spectator sports to go out and watch ...
    Just winding you up Gilles, actually used to be a big ice hockey fan in the UK (though the standard was very poor).

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    tally

    The US are putting the wrong spin on this. Thinking the total of medals counts as a winning tally is just reaching a lot.

    I'm of the thinking that the medals should be point graded - 3 for gold, 2 for silver, 1 for bronze.

    An interesting aspect of this heading into the last day looking at the current medal tally is:-

    China has 47gold, 17 silver and 25 bronze = 200.
    USA has 31 gold, 36 silver 35 bronze = 200.

    This puts both nations on 200pts. For an interesting last day I think.


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    Yes I know who Bannister and Landy are, first sub-4 min mile in PNE, Vancouver...your trivia knowledge doesn't impress me...and has nothing to do with the topic.

    second, if your going to try to argue a point, at least get the facts right...Dream Team One (Jordan, Magic et al) was 1992...


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    Actually it's pretty funny (or rather sad), I found a Medal Table from "USA Today" from Athens and now from Beijing...they did indeed flip the medal table from Gold priority to Total priority:

    Medal Winners - 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics - USATODAY.com

    USATODAY.com - USATODAY.com - Olympic sports coverage

    Having said that, saying US is the only one that make themselfes look better is like saying the Chinese gymnasts are 16


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    Quote Originally Posted by timklip:
    Yes I know who Bannister and Landy are, first sub-4 min mile in PNE, Vancouver...your trivia knowledge doesn't impress me...and has nothing to do with the topic.

    second, if your going to try to argue a point, at least get the facts right...Dream Team One (Jordan, Magic et al) was 1992...
    So where did your #6 point come from if you knew Landy and Bannister?

    Whether it was 1988 0r 1992 doesn't change the fact that this was a real Dream Team made of legends of the sport... Do you think that in Athens, it was such a team?

    On a side note, I just finished watching Bigger, Stronger, Faster... An interesting documentary mostly about steroids but exploring drug enhancing in sports...

    Certainly makes you pause about hypocrisy...and you might think twice about buying supplements in the US!!!

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    I'm watching the medal ceremony for the men's 4x400 relay track event; Russia won the bronze medal...anyway, while on the podium one of the Russian athletes opened his warmup jacket to reveal a USSR t-shirt! wow. What a statement in the light of recent activities in the Caucasus!

    (Bahamas took Silver, USA took Gold)


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