How does playing host to the Olympics affect the place China has in medal standings?

Question

What happened to USA that dominated previous Olympic games?

Answer 1

Home team crowd might help.

Answer 2

Not always

I remeber when the Us came in at least third

Local if listing the top three, the US were on top

When listing the full list, the US were list according to medal count

If the USSR and Other countries were above, the would be above

It was always base on the total medals

This thing with the gold is odd

France has 30 medals, it should be list below the Netherlands with 15,

France has 4 gold, and Metherlands has 6

In the US France would be listed 7th

I guess in the rest of the world France would be listed 12th

I think the US way makes more sense

France should be listed in the 7th down

It has double the medals

You can list France 12th, with twice the medals, but it's wrong

Answer 3

Does it matter if the government puts you in a training camp at the age of 3 and you have a talent pool of 1.2 billion people to choose from doesn't hurt either!

Answer 4

I doubt "Dominate" is the proper word as recent olympics were pretty close in overall standings in both Gold count as well as the total medal count.

Only in 1996 Atlanta olympics that US really can say dominated.

China's been in up swing through past olympics and being a host nation in this year is definately helping them, however in each instances of recent olympics, the host nation always seems do "better" so nothing new here.

Answer 5

the chinese are competing in the stadium, etc. where they have probably competed for the last year. the surroundings are familiar so they do better.

Answer 6

its called home advantage.

Answer 7

China has felt even more pressure in their own Olympics to dominate and win as much as possible. They've actually focused their training on events that they don't normally excel in, while continuing great training on those they do. That's why you see China winning golds in events in weightlifting and wrestling, when they haven't really been known for those events in the past.