fleung22 1 Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Remove your nationalism for a second and ask yourself. What's more impressive? Having the most medals or winning the gold medal race?Is 35 gold really worth less than 40 bronze?? Link to post Share on other sites
outsider13 0 Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Well, being an Olympic champion is far more important than being and Olympic runner up to the runner up. I personally like the total medal count, but if you are going to measure excellence, you can't have 3rd equal with first. Link to post Share on other sites
rinswun 6 Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 2nd is the first loser.gotta be gold for me. fwiw if michael phelps was a country he'd be tied 7th. Link to post Share on other sites
Yoda 1 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Both are important...hard to say which method is better. But you could assign a weight of Gold x3 Silver x2 Bronze x1 for a result that weighs both total medals and how high you finish.If you do that - China is still beating us right now...USA 162China 183 Link to post Share on other sites
sennin 0 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Both are important...hard to say which method is better. But you could assign a weight of Gold x3 Silver x2 Bronze x1 for a result that weighs both total medals and how high you finish.If you do that - China is still beating us right now...USA 162China 183Ya thats how it should be done. Link to post Share on other sites
slink 1 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 2nd is the first loser.gotta be gold for me. fwiw if michael phelps was a country he'd be tied 7th.Gold only. Link to post Share on other sites
SuitedAces21 2,723 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Take away Chinas gymnastics medals for using underage girls and then where are they? Link to post Share on other sites
MadKennedy420 0 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Golds for sure but the fix has to be in, sometimes. Link to post Share on other sites
CobaltBlue 662 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Neither? Some countries just don't have the same immense populations and resources. It'd be interesting to see someone devise a formula that adjusts for those factors. So maybe gold medals per capita? Link to post Share on other sites
Giggidy 0 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Neither? Some countries just don't have the same immense populations and resources. It'd be interesting to see someone devise a formula that adjusts for those factors. So maybe gold medals per capita?Yeh that's what I was thinking, or medals per capita Link to post Share on other sites
Chet Steadman 0 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 It's all about the golds.But there's something to be said for most overall too. Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodAFD 0 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Both are important...hard to say which method is better. But you could assign a weight of Gold x3 Silver x2 Bronze x1 for a result that weighs both total medals and how high you finish.If you do that - China is still beating us right now...USA 162China 183Yea.. but add democracy and we PWN china. Oh...and is that figure recalculated after they had to return the medals they won by CHEATING !Bunch of cheaters.Chinese cheaters.Chickity china....chinese chicken. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,355 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Neither? Some countries just don't have the same immense populations and resources. It'd be interesting to see someone devise a formula that adjusts for those factors. So maybe gold medals per capita?Then Divide it by GDP? Population isn't the only determinant. India isn't competeing for the overall medal count. Or really any medals. At all. Link to post Share on other sites
CobaltBlue 662 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Then Divide it by GDP? Population isn't the only determinant. India isn't competeing for the overall medal count. Or really any medals. At all.Yeah...would probably want to factor GDP in there somehow. Link to post Share on other sites
LJB723 0 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 5 Alternative scoring methods for the medals table.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7576446.stm Link to post Share on other sites
James D 0 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 5 Alternative scoring methods for the medals table.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7576446.stm Gotta love our talent for trying to knock ourselves off our pedestal, after our most successful Olympics ever.Finally, we're up there with the big boys... 'Hey everyone! let's invent new medals tables that don't even put us in the top 10.. yeah!'. Link to post Share on other sites
LJB723 0 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Gotta love our talent for trying to knock ourselves off our pedestal, after our most successful Olympics ever.Finally, we're up there with the big boys... 'Hey everyone! let's invent new medals tables that don't even put us in the top 10.. yeah!'.We're British and as such we crave dissapointment. Link to post Share on other sites
SlapStick 0 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Gotta love our talent for trying to knock ourselves off our pedestal, after our most successful Olympics ever.Finally, we're up there with the big boys... 'Hey everyone! let's invent new medals tables that don't even put us in the top 10.. yeah!'.Lets not give the English media too much credit, they still haven't shut up about the 1966 world cup Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodAFD 0 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 We're British and as such we crave dissapointment.That should be on a T-Shirt Link to post Share on other sites
aadams_22 3 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 total medals only because it shows consistencyif a country A won golds in 30 events (but no other medals) but those 30 events only constituted 30-35% of the Olympics that means they didn't medal 65-70% of the timeif country B won 15 golds, but also included 35 silvers and 50 bronzes then that feat is far more impressive because it shows consistency, and an all around talent of that country Link to post Share on other sites
pele_br 0 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 LOL @ This even being an issue.Every country since forever (Including USA) and the IOC (International Olympic Comitee) have used Gold Medals to rank countries, while the silver and bronze medals count have been used as a criteria when there is a tie for gold medals. Now, for the first time ever, Americans are using the total medal count... Lack of humility at its best. USA number 1!!! (sw) Link to post Share on other sites
Giggidy 0 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Gotta love our talent for trying to knock ourselves off our pedestal, after our most successful Olympics ever.Finally, we're up there with the big boys... 'Hey everyone! let's invent new medals tables that don't even put us in the top 10.. yeah!'.I particularly like the fact that despite the most successful Olympics ever then media would rather splash a fking Pedo on the front pageYaaaay, lets celebrate him instead Link to post Share on other sites
aadams_22 3 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 LOL @ This even being an issue.Every country since forever (Including USA) and the IOC (International Olympic Comitee) have used Gold Medals to rank countries, while the silver and bronze medals count have been used as a criteria when there is a tie for gold medals. Now, for the first time ever, Americans are using the total medal count... Lack of humility at its best. USA number 1!!! (sw)in my ~30 years on this planet it has always been total medal countevery media outlet in the USA has always used total medals instead of number of goldsso I have no idea where you are getting your facts from Link to post Share on other sites
slink 1 Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 Does the gold medal count include multiple medals for team events.For example does the gold medal winning baseball team add one to the gold medal count or 25, or does the China team get one gold medal for team gymnastics or 7? Link to post Share on other sites
SuitedAces21 2,723 Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 Does the gold medal count include multiple medals for team events.For example does the gold medal winning baseball team add one to the gold medal count or 25, or does the China team get one gold medal for team gymnastics or 7?Are you a functional retard?Or am I missing the joke? Link to post Share on other sites
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