Who is leading in the olympic medal count?

Question

I don't understand the medal count. I went on a chinese and a english website, and they both have China ahead since they go by gold medals. On the american website they have the USA ahead as they go by all gold medals. When I went on the oympic website, they also went by gold medals and had china ahead. Apparently that is the correct way to count and has always been like that. So why do we count them differently if everyone else goes by the amount of gold medals?

Answer 1

USA as more overall medals and China has more gold medals =]

Answer 2

Americas list by total, Chinese list by gold.

Pick one, it' really doesn't........ matter except to petty people(not being rude just stating the obvious)

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Answer 3

From the old medal count in olympic official website, you can find it is sort by gold medal first.

However, US Media avoid leading by China, so they change the sorting method in total medals. They act like a kid.

Lets consider in this situation, if Nation A won all 302 gold medals, but Nation B won all silver and bronze. Will you accept B is the champion but not A. ( Obviously A got 302 No.1 )

Nation__Gold___Silver___Bronze___Total

B_________0____302______302____ 604

A_______302______0________0 ____302

  

Feel disappoint for the Media who change the rule to protect the nation image. Media should be stand in natural.

Answer 4

HaHa those Confused Americans by American media propaganda. world will think CHina is leading in the olympic and Americans are champion in their own.

Answer 5

China has the most medals.

The U.S. counts total medals because it puts us in a better light and puts us ahead of everyone else.

If China had the most medals overall but the U.S. had the most gold, then the U.S. would count the  gold medals as the standard method of who is ahead in the medal count.

It's called "one upmanship."

Answer 6

the american have more overall medals, but the chineese have more gold but less overall so it depends what you wanna go by more gold or more overall.