Who is really winning in the olympics China or USA?

Question

What does really count, the gold medals or the number of medals?

Answer 1

Do the Math......

Gold- 3 points

Silver- 2 points

Bronze- 1 point

Answer 2

U.S.A is winning in total but china is winning in gold

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Answer 3

China are winning, check the official rankings page on the Beijing 2008 website.

Answer 4

Officially China will be the winner.

However if the US chooses to declare the US as winner, it's fine too. The victory of China will be internationally recognised except the US.

Answer 5

China has won fair and square

Answer 6

china in gold

USA in total medals

Answer 7

US: ranked by total medals ==> 1. US, 2. China

THE REST OF THE WORLD: ranked by gold medals ==> 1. China, 2. US

What do you think?

Answer 8

Americans must be proud about something.

So why don't fool them about a sport competition?

they are fooled everyday about politics. They even think they're helping up Iraq. They believe in bush's lies. What more do you want?

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they discovered airplanes!! did you read this?? They really think that brothers Wright powered the first flight.

Answer 9

Medal Count is important to Americans because the Cold War was fought at the Olympics every four years. It was David and Goliath - the free West versus the professional machinery of the Soviet Bloc. We, the West, had little chance against nations that made their Olympic Athletes de facto professionals and pioneered steroids. Since 1992, the US has always come out on top. Many of us are not comfortable with that and see in the PRC another monolith like the Soviet machinery of the Seventies.

In all honestly, I'd call the current issue a draw.

Answer 10

USA is no 2. Based on the IOC rule, gold medal count is used to determined the countries standings in the Olympics and lesser medal are only used as tie breakers.

Anywhere in the world China is listed as no 1, except in USA's media, which lists USA as no 1 based on total medal count. Ironically, in the past, the US was using gold medal count instead of total medal.

http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/...

And to consider total count tally is just simply FLAWED logic, as that would mean bronze medal is equally as important as gold.

Answer 11

I'm from Guangzhou, China and though I would like to say China, I have to be honest with my appraisal.

I'm not sure either nation can claim superiority in this instance. The medal tally just isn't clear cut enough. The US will most like beat us by 10 medals overall. But we'll probably beat the US by 12 or 13 gold medals.

Also, the two nations are good at a different kinds of sports. They are not direct competitors like Australia vs Britain would be, i.e they don't compete for the same medals, which makes it difficult to say who won.