How is the olympics ranked? are the medals worth a certain number of points?

Question

so gold weigh more than silver etc and how much?

Answer 1

There are no points

Each medal count as one

If there is a tied, then it goes by Gold

Or if you are from England you count only Gold so the US is in 2nd and more important Britain is in 3rd not 4th place

That is how it always been done here, but if you want to just count the gold medals, like Britain, you can

It does not really matter who you count them

Answer 2

Actually, LEDIA, as far as I know, every country OTHER than the US (not just Great Britain) AND (most importantly) the IOC rank countries by Gold first, then Silver, then Bronze.  Do a search of any non-American website covering the Olympics and you'll see that you've been duped by the American media machine!  But I guess some Americans will still be convinced that it's the IOC and the rest of the world that must be wrong!

Answer 3

It's not, they just have so many single sports that they make team sports so a country can win a medal.

If it is ranked, they count it by how many medals each country has?

The gold medal is pure gold and it weight most, silver is pure silver and it weight 2nd most, and so on with bronze.

Answer 4

countries are ranked by how many gold medals they have, then silver, then bronze..

Answer 5

Ya, I think most countries rank Olympic results by gold first, then silver, then bronze.

I wondering if Chinese got more total medals than U.S, but U.S. got more golds, then how would U.S. media do the medal counts?  hehehehhe.