Americans are way behind the chinese here are a couple of links that are not from the us what do you think?

Question

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/medal-tally

Answer 1

It says on those links that the US has 72 medals as compared to China's 65.

Or are you going based on the number of golds?

Hey, America can't always be first, just as the New England Patriots can't complete a perfect season with a Super Bowl win.

Answer 2

Who cares? We all root for our own home countries, yet we should all favor whoever wins.... These jealousy medal questions are boring by the way...

Answer 3

Actually America (USA), China, Great Britain, Germany and many others are way DOWN on the medal tally on a per ca pita basis, while some countries are way UP on it.

Using figures from the URLs given, at the time of this writing, and using the basis of the ratio of medals per million of population, some interesting results are given below:

USA

Gold:22, Total:72,

giving per million ratios of about 0.072 (for Gold) & 0.237 (any medal color)

CHINA

Gold:39, Total: 67

giving ratios of about 0.029 (Gold) & 0.049 (any color)

GREAT BRITAIN:

Gold:12, Total: 27

resultant ratios: ~0.197 (Gold) & 0.443 (any)

GERMANY

Gold: 9, Total: 23

resultant ratios: ~0..109 (Gold) & 0.279 (any)

AUSTRALIA:

Gold:11, Total 33,

results ~ 0.534 for Gold & 1.602 for any color.

Many others could be listed, but clearly this shows that the so called ' usual' leader countries are not really doing so well, given their much larger population base from which their potential sports competitors may be drawn (imports excepted, obviously).

Therefore, on the basis outlined above, Australia would seem to have a disproportionately high medal count!

Answer 4

So...?

China was always really good along with the United States.

Answer 5

This is not really "new" for us. I guess only the americans would be surprised when they found out that they are not no.1 on the medal tally in every other country.

Answer 6

china is favorite 2008 olympics.

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Answer 7

I think that your country isn't doing as well as either the Chinese or American's and you have trouble dealing with that.  Bash away if it makes you feel better somehow.

i just wanted to her you septics moan??  What does that even mean?

Answer 8

Oh give me a break. there's some sports the americans are good at and there's some sports the chinese are good at... don't be sour about it...