One country had 99 gold, another had 100 bronze, who won?

Question

One country had 99 gold, another had 100 bronze, who won?

Answer 1

either way, they've won because the one that got 99 gold medals would place first but the one who got 100 bronze medals would probably get the most medals in total. But this would probably never happen, sorry to burst your bubble.

Answer 2

gold

if one country had 1 gold medal and the other had 200bronze, gold country would win

gold is more valuable

Answer 3

Ahhh... a great example of how statistics can be used to prove just about anything, depending upon how you want to look at it.  I'm sure the country who won the 99 gold medals will be bragging about how they had the most gold medals and the country who had the 100 bronze will be bragging how they won the most medals.  So in their own way, both of them have 'won' bragging rights from each of their perspectives.

Answer 4

depends on if you're going by value, or number.

Answer 5

Yeah, wouldn't that be cool if countries could get, like a million medals or whatever??!! Yeah, that would be so cool! Or, no, how about, like a billion-kajillion!! WWWOOOWWW!! That would be sooo awesome!! Yeah!! Or no like infinity times agoogal times one ka-phlillion-buh-shpillion medals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man!!! WWOOOWWW!!!

Answer 6

99 Gold - easy

I'd even have 20 Gold compared to 100 Bronze. Much more valuable.

Answer 7

Well it really depends on what scoring system your using. Some countries do it by the total number of medals (including gold, silver, and bronze) and some do it by the total number of gold medals and if the number of gold is the same, they compare number of silver, and so on.

If the countries tally is using the first option, the bronze wins but if your using the second option the country with the gold wins.  

Answer 8

It depends.  I have seen many people question why some countries count different than others like on Yahoo rather than in China.  However, because there is really no set system that any one commitee of the IOC has put forth, people tend to count in their own way.  Personally I think it should be by total medals not just gold because of the idea of the olympics being a team competition rather than an individual one.  One player does not make up the entire olympic team of every sport so it is better to count it that way, but I am sure some critics of that will disagree.  To me its just like saying I ran faster for the first 50m but I didn't win the race.  I would like it if they had a universal counting thing, that way people would complain less.

Answer 9

i woould say 99 gold but it is tough

Answer 10

gold duh