What matters most? a country winning the most olympic medal or winning the most olympic gold medal?

Question

Darnel... im sorry i didnt know that!

Answer 1

You have a good point. Those of us in the USA don't know how to count medals. It's simply that we have so d**n many of them. Perhaps we can help you count both of your country's medals?

Answer 2

This is the 37th time this question has been posted today, broke yesterdays record by 5 and the day isn't over yet.

congrats dude.

Answer 3

US media trying to cover it up by using total medal, but in reality its the gold medal that counts, because it proves that you are the best.  And country who has the most amount of gold medals usually means they performed the best.

If Michael Phelps wins 8 silver/bronze medals, no one would ever cared.

Answer 4

it depends on where you live,

in the USA its counted by total medals

the official IOC medal tally and the rest of the world count by gold, with silver and bronze breaking the tie if more than one nation has the same amount of gold

Why the USA feels the need to do it differently to the rest of the world remains bemusing to me...

Answer 5

I will not attack you because you didn't know this question was asked every 5 minutes on here:

I would rather have 49 gold, 50 silver, 50 bronze than 50 gold, 0 silver and 0 bronze,

That's just me, everyone is different.

As you can see, many, for some odd reason, care how America does things, make you really wonder huh.  Why do they care, well they hate us, and why do they hate us, becalm we have more gold than them.

Whatever works for you, but whatever you do, do not take any opinion of American haters, they are just delusional and let their hate et in the way of rational thoughts.

Do it whatever way you want, guarantee us America don't care, only the freaks do.

Answer 6

Gold is what matters most, everyone knows that. Gold is the REAL winner, after that everything is a loss by larger and larger degree. By counting total medals you imply that each medal is worth the same thing, which is obvious nonsense.

There's a few ways you can count medals. You can count by gold only and use silver to break a tie in gold, and if they're still tied there's bronze. You can count by total medals and assume each medal is worth the same thing, which would negate the purpose of different color medals. Or you can award each medal a point system; for example, 3 for gold, 2 for silver, and 1 for bronze.

As you probably know, most countries use the "gold" system. Americans use the "total" system, but to me this seems like the most flawed of the three.

Answer 7

It's all about the Gold. It's either win Gold or settle for anything less. You can say well I won Silver, or I won Bronze, but why not I won 4th or I won 5th? You don't win Silver or Bronze, you just lost Gold and you just settle for Silver or Bronze. Of course some people would be happy with Silver or Bronze, but those are the people that are not Gold level competitors. If you can win Gold but didn't, you don't win Silver or Bronze, you Lost Gold!

Edit: d**n Darnel you keep count?

Edit 2: Bleuwra, so something fishy was going on in America for the past 3 straight Olympics? Or does it have to be another country for it to be fishy?

Answer 8

Gold medals matter the most. Gold means champion.

Answer 9

I'd rather win the most medals with a good mix of gold in there.  If my country just won a bunch of gold and little else I would think there was something fishy going on.