Which is the position of the U.S.A. in the olympic scoreboard?

Question

The American reports show the scoreboard of the total number of the medals... Is it correct? They could use the bronze medals to classificate the best in the world... Isn't true?

Answer 1

1st if you count the most medals in general, with China in second, but if you decide the ranking by the most gold medals than it would be in 2nd.

Answer 2

What people fail to understand is you WIN silver medals and you WIN bronze medals. People act like getting anything but gold is bad.

Being 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the world at something is pretty good.

Answer 3

Second, because it's ranked by gold. I wish they would stop being so arrogant and saying they are winning by changing the rules that everyother country abides by...

You can thumb me down all you like, it's not gonna change the fact you are second, and enhances the fact that you are being pathetic about the whole thing...

Answer 4

Unlike most lame counties, the U.S. has always done it like that.

The only people that care what the U.S. does are whiny jealous arrogant foreigners.

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Answer 5

Of course total medals is right.

Foreigners just can't understand complex ideas for ranking by multiple medals, not a single one.

The proper ranking is done by total medals, not just by gold.

Pretty simple really.

Answer 6

Of course total medals is wrong.

The USA just can't understand complex ideas for ranking by multiple categories.

The proper ranking is done by gold medals then by silver medals and then by bronze medals.

Pretty simple really.

Hey Craig, would you rather have 50 $1 notes or 1 $100 note? It's the same for medals, gold is worth more than silver or bronze.

Craig hate to break it to you - I'm not saying that a gold medal is worth $100, genius. This is a real life example of why total medals counting is wrong. If having more medals is better regardless of the type of medal as you claim, then having more notes must also be better. Right? No I didn't think so. Someone else had another example as well that you might be able to understand, is 15 bronze better than 14 gold?

BTW Craig the gold medals do actually have REAL gold in them. It's not fake gold. There really is gold in the gold medal - genius

Hey diablo The proper way to rank does rank by all 3 medals and it also gives the proper weighting to each medal. Unlike the USA system that has 2nd and 3rd equal to 1st. What you're saying is that all those swimmers who came second and third to phelps are equal to him.

Yoda The official medal tally takes into account ALL MEDALS not just gold medals. It is not a gold medal count!! - it is a medal tally. Silver and Bronze are used to rank those countries with the same number of gold medals.

Answer 7

its ranked by total medals

Answer 8

I would rather have 50 gold, 50 silver and 50 bronze than ......51 gold, 0 silver and 0 bronze.

I like how America gives credit to silver and bronze athletes, we care about them.

my opinion and the only way that makes sense to me and many of my countrymen.

Answer 9

so by the logic of many of the answers here, a country with a total of 0 gold 0 silver 15 bronze medals is doing better than a country with 14 gold 0 silver 0 bronze...

silly really...

and with China way out in front in gold and the total medal tally so very close, just a difference of 3 as I type...

why America feels the need to thumb their nose at the rest of the world and do it differenty to everyone else is beyond me, and makes the US look arrogant and unable to accept second place with grace and dignity

Answer 10

OMG !!!! ITS REALLY GETTING HARD FOR U TO ACCEPT THAT U R FINALLY NUMBER 2,,,OK LET ME SAY IT AGAIN FOR U .

2ND \DID U HEAR?/

2ND / OPEN YOUR EYES

2ND .

Answer 11

It doesn't matter.  No country earns anything after all events are completed for the most gold medals, silver medals, bronze medals, overall medals, or whatever silly medal system anyone comes up with.  Gold medal counts are flawed because it assumes getting a silver medal is the same as not getting any medal.  Overall medal counts are flawed because it assumes getting a bronze medal is the same as getting a gold medal, but much better than getting 4th place or not getting any medal.

Any medal system is flawed because it assumes every medal is created equal.  Michael Phelps can win 8 gold medals in swimming, but if he was as good of a basketball player as he is a swimmer, he could only win 1 gold medal.  Thus, not all medals are given equal weight, so any medal count will not be very accurate.

The medal tables are always posted simply for fans' convenience.  I don't keep track of this, but apparently Americans have always counted by total medals, and most international sites have always counted by gold medals.  Hence the discrepancy, but I doubt it's bias of any kind.  Rather than taking this too seriously though, one should really just enjoy the great display of skill and sportsmanship shown by the athletes.

Answer 12

2nd for rank (their gold under china) 1st in medals

Answer 13

If you don't like the American report, use another one and quite crying about it.