Olympic gold medal standings?

Question

Who is the best country? The country with the most golds or the country with the most medals? What do you think?

Answer 1

According to the IOC and every country except the US, the country with most Gold medals wins the Olympics.  Best country is subjective.  My ranking would not count Olympic standings.  As for the country that is going to win the 2008 Olympics, that will be China.  The rest is sour grapes.

Answer 2

China has most gold but america has most medals over all. america has 46 currently and china has 41. personally i think America is best. especially Shawn Johnson and Michael Phelps

Answer 3

What amuses me more is that USA insists on Total Medals while everybody else (Pfft. Those fools on the IOC...and oh, the rest of the world) does it by Total Golds. I'm sure if USA was in the situation China was in (more golds but fewer medals) there would be a quick shift towards Total Golds :)



I think Total Gold discounts the value of bronze and silver medals while Total Medals discounts the value of the gold medal. I've read somewhere that the point system should be used (3-2-1 or what have you) and that's what I'm leaning towards at the moment.

Either way my country would still be rock bottom in all 3 systems ha!  

Answer 4

I still think the USA is the better nopt the Chinese. But the chinese have more gold medals than the USA. But I think the Chinese are getting the upper edge because the games are being held in their nation. So actually the USA is better. The olympic judges in gymnastics during the all-around were being stingy on the US women's scores, and givng the chinese women better scores and they were faltering significantly and not being deducted for it. So I know that is true I saw that for my own eyes on NBC.

Answer 5

most medals.

either way i think US is better than China no matter what because we have less population and we dont have training farms. Athletes from our country has the choice to be a athlete.

Answer 6

The USA is the best country even if they/we have no medals.

Answer 7

USA is definitely better.  There's a lot left to go in the Olympics where we dominate.  Also we don't cheat like China.  For example the Woman's Chinese Olympic Gymnastic team being way under age.