Which country is winning overall in the Olympics?

Question

Which country is winning overall in the Olympics?

Answer 1

Winning?  This depends entirely on your measure.  If your measure is gold medals - China.  If your measure is Gold AND Silver - China.  If your measure is all medals - U.S.

If your measure is most number of world records broken - then who knows?

If your measure is winning athletes as a percentage of the home countries population then perhaps Jamaica?

The point is that there has to be an agreed upon measure before you can even think about answering this question.  Me?  I just enjoy watching excellence - no matter what country it comes from.

Answer 2

china

What if a county had won one gold 50 silver and 50 bronze would they be in front of a country that has won 100 gold(for argument's sake) that would not make sense

it has to be mesured by gold medals and not total

Answer 3

Based on US media, US is #1 with total medal count.

In other countries and organization including IOC, China is winning with most Gold medals.

Answer 4

CHINA is way ahead of everyone else  

Answer 5

USA dominates the Bronze Medal Table

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggsbR-VNB...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/2782...

Answer 6

Depends on how you look at it.

If you're meaning overall medals, then it's the USA.  They have 95.

If you're meaning overall gold, then it's China; they have 46 golds.

Technically, a medal tally means total medals, so the USA is leading overall.

Answer 7

Some of the smaller countries who actually medal I think are the biggest winners.

To determine an overall “Winner” there would need to be a scoring mechanism in place similar to team competition at track meets.  The top individual placement would have a weighted point associated with it to fairly gauge the strength of the team.  A “team” that gets 2nd & 3rd shows more depth than a team that only has one great athlete.

1st Gold Medal: 10 points

2nd Silver Medal: 7 points

3rd Bronze Medal: 5 points

4th No Medal:   3 points

5th No Medal:   2 points

Finalist finisher 1 point

Playing with the numbers this would make the “Overall “ competition much closer than just looking at the Gold or Total medal counts.  Keep in mind that the 1-point for finishing is important for the spirit of the games.  It is a small reward for those who compete with no hope of winning. Long after the medalist have finished in some of the running and walking races there are people out there that do not quit.

Of course to be fair, some sort of weighting for the size of the country would need to come into play.  China would definitely be in the large school division, as would the USA.

For it's size Jamaica would be in the small school division and I would have to say it would be considered dominant.

Answer 8

America. China has the most gold medals, but America is winning overall.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,4078...

in the box at the right hand of the page. (:

Answer 9

USA with 93 i think.china r 2nd n GB r 3rd  

Answer 10

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Answer 11

China, they are getting the revenue and still oppressing their people

while the rest of the civilized world turns its head.  

Answer 12

usa

Answer 13

Overall for the most medals it's the USA! We have 93 medals and China has 83 medals and Russia has 51 medals.  

Answer 14

usa, but china is dominating the gold medal category

Answer 15

I think Panama

They won there first gold medal every

They only have one medal

Answer 16

USA, but China will win.

And no, I'm not from China, I'm from GB.

Answer 17

china

Answer 18

chickita chinese, the chinese chicken. they're winning.

Answer 19

Counting and averaging all-time medals, the Soviet Union by far. They had far less participations than the U.S.

Simply counting all-time medals, the United States.

This 2008 Olympics, China. And I don't think the U.S. can pass China anymore.

Please don't come with the total medal count, that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Virtually all countries in the world (except the U.S.) and the International Olympic Comittee (IOC) uses gold medal count.

Answer 20

Currently China is the winner.

Only Gold medallists are winners, silver/bronze medallists can never be winners.

The official IOC method is to count the gold medals first and if there is a tie then the silver medals are counted.

Can a swimmer who wins 9 bronze medals be considered better than Phelps ?

Answer 21

Overall according to the medal tally,

USA.

As far as gold medals are concerned- - ->China

Answer 22

          Gold Silver Bronze Total

USA 28 34 31 93

CHN 46 15 22 83

RUS 16 16 19 51

GBR 17 12 11 40

AUS 11 13 14 38

overall USA

Answer 23

CHINA PR.

Answer 24

USA in overall medal counts

Answer 25

ITS ALL ABOUT THE GOLD

AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT

China is killing the competition