Stop with the Medal Count questions?

Question

Can we? Are we really that obsessed with winning when overall there is no winner of the olympics? why cant we ask questions like: What did you think of Spearmon getting dq? or What did you think of Laura Wilkinson's perfomrnace on diving? Its not about winning, its about having fun and honoring ur country, which does include winning medals. But not going on some website and saying how Gold counts or Most medals count

Answer 1

How many medals does the US have. we should be in 1st place.

Answer 2

You just perpetuated the questions

Answer 3

dude no disrespect but u cant control other peeps minds. maybe they jus want 2 know how many medals there are all 2 gether wit each country but u are right no country does win

Answer 4

Its because they are for some reason like really obbssed with what us Americans do.

They keep saying that they hate us,but yet they cant stop talking about us.....

Hypocrits

Answer 5

why can't we?... because we are human and halfwits and have no purpose in life so we try to stir up controversy to try to make ourselves feel better when we can argue better than someone. i call it...pathetic

LOL at australia being the best??!!!???

just um.. to tell you.. um your basketball team- coached by an AMERICAN... your best athletes.... from OVERSEAS

get over it....no one really.. deep down, if there is such a thing... cares.

Answer 6

People are so obsessed with us Americans

it is kind of flattering

but the count is by Gold Medals

Answer 7

Stop it , if you want to count, Australia is the best sport country in the world depending on population

Answer 8

Actually it is about winning. Otherwise they would be the Goodwill Games, which the merger of AOL and Time Warner ended because they were losing money. Well it was really because Ted Turner stepped down when Time Warner was so stupid.  

Answer 9

According to IOC, the countries are listed according to the number of gold won, and then the silver.... Many countries around the world also do it this way.

In USA, however, the medal counts are listed according to the total. I do not believe it is just only for this Olympics. This site listed 2004 olympic medal counts according to the total.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympic...

Just pick a method you like and be consistent, gold or total. Or if you like to put a weight on each medal (3,2,1 or 5,3,1, or 4,2,1 or whatever), go ahead and have some fun.

IMO, USA has been and still is a great sports power. Now question about it. China has been improving in recent years. This time China has more gold, and rank #2 in total (as of 8/21/08), very impressive. China is becoming another great sports power. Congratulations to both, and let's just watch the games.

For the medal counts, just do the way you like, and please do not force your way to others. Korea like to factor in the population which makes their medal counts above both US and China - which would make their countryman feel great. Nothing wrong with that.

Here is another site for the medal counts. You can click on whatever category you like (total, gold, silver...), it will rank the counties accordingly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Summer...