In the olympics the country which gets max GOLD should be declared as the best and not total number of ?

Question

medals, alt give 5 points to each gold ,

3 to each silver ,

and

2 for each bronze

and add up. what is ur considered view on this line of thought for future olympics?

Answer 1

I believe whoever comes in 2nd place in the Gold standings should be declared the winner.

Answer 2

I think we should leave it  the way as it is....

If the Americans like to think they won the most medals, that is true and that is good.

If the rest of the world think China won because they had the most gold medals, then that is also true and that is wonderful, at least a very good inspiration for the developing world.

Each country should use their own definition, as long it encourage youths to take part in sports, and also if they simply use the different way to define winning, not by war, than that is all fine with me.

Answer 3

There is no declaration that a country has "won" the olympics.

Countries cannot win the olympics, they can only participate in them.

As for medal tally, you can rank by total medals won and then

break it down by gold, silver, and bronze.  This type of ranking is the most universally used, and always has been.

Another type is to rank them by golds won, then silver, then bronze.

This is sort of like what you are suggesting.  By this type of ranking

begins to look screwed up once you start running out of golds.

Example: In the Beijing olympics just completed, Armenia won

6 medals total, all bronze; Panama 1 medal, gold; Morocco won

2 medals, 1 silver, 1 bronze.

Total medal ranking: Armenia 6, Morocco 2, Panama 1

G,S,B medal ranking: Panama, Morocco, Armenia.

Is it fair to rank Armenia behind Panama and Morocco, when

they obviously had a better olympics with 6 medals won?

Total medal count is the best way to rank .

Answer 4

i think so yes. however, i'm not into the point system. this olympics just had US with the most medals but China had the most golds. i think in the past olympics, the country that gets the most golds also gets the most medals. but this year, the situation is different. but to choose whether China or US is the top country, i'll go for China with the most golds. every athlete went out there to win golds not silver and not bronze.

Answer 5

I agree

except make it

4 for gold 2 for silver and 1 for bronze

BUT

bad thing for that ranking is that it will have tie scores

Answer 6

From Dexmonte.

Ranking by total medals is just as unfair and it's easy to draw a similar example to your 6 medals to 1 gold showing the situation in reverse, that is 25 gold 26 bronze versus (51 total) versus 50 gold (50 total). The latter is obviously a better performance.

Officially the Olympic medal tables are ranked by gold. It's not fair to those who won silver and bronze, but neither is treating a gold the same as coming second or third. Anybody who makes it to the final in an event is a champion period, and yet nobody cares about those who came 4th through 8th. It's an arbitrary cut-off but nonetheless real.

Because the Olympics is about being the best. So really golds are the best way to rank, because the people winning those medals are the best at the games. Everybody else are simply great athletes.

Answer 7

Well, that's not the way it goes, so too bad. You people should get over this already.

Seriously.

Answer 8

I think a lot of people don't really understand what the Olympics are all about.

Answer 9

I think that medal counts should be done away with entirely.  Ranking countries by medals won only serves to devalue the efforts of the athletes.

Answer 10

People are so obssessed. There is no country that wins the Olympics.