Which country has won the most gold medals ever (source please)?

Question

Which country has won the most gold medals ever (source please)?

Answer 1

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/spo_su...

Answer 2

the Los Angeles games were boycotted by the USSR at the time which included all the powerful countries in gymnastics, also Iran and Lybia also boycotted the games, so did Cuba, and a few others, a total of 14 countries boycotted the games, so I would not count the Los Angeles games in the mix of most golds, because it would simply be an unfair advantage. If China claimed most golds on the basis of boycottted games, we would never hear the end of it by jealous americans.

Answer 3

Obviously the USA with a grand total of 894 Gold Medals in the life of the Modern Olympics pre-Beijing.

Their biggest year was 1984 with 83 Gold Medals.

Answer 4

The olympics have been going on for 3000 years since ancient greece.

So how can you tell who has ever won the most golds.

Answer 5

The USA!

Answer 6

Russia had like 80 gold's because of a boy cott, but that's just from me.

Answer 7

oh boo who, smaller countries have less medals, did you read the question? save that response for a question that cares, kudos to those with the right answer, and the beijing guy get over yourself, we can all read the front page of the paper, i dunno if they are all too ignorant to read the question or choose ignore it on purpose

Answer 8

China!

Answer 9

The US is the counttry with more goled medals.

Lucky for them the Soviet Union fell apart 'cause up until Barcelona they owned them even as the Unified team.

If you considered a countri'es population against their number of medals, Cuba and Australia for example outperform a lot of the really big countries.

Answer 10

today the 10th days Beijing 2008 olympic games, CHINA leads by 39 gold medals.

Answer 11

The IOC does not publish lists of medals per country, but the media often do. A comparison between countries would be unfair to countries with fewer inhabitants, so some have made calculations of medals per number of inhabitants, such as [1] for the 2004 Olympics and [2] for a few more. A problem here is that for a very small country, gaining just one medal could mean the difference between the very top and the very bottom of the list (a point illustrated by the Bahamas' per capita number one position in 2004). On the other hand, a large country may not be able to send a number of athletes that is proportional to its size because a limit is set for the number of participants per country for a specific sport.