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Anonymous
Let's have a civilised discussion why sorting by gold medals is right/wrong.

Here's my economics argument. Let's look at this from an athletes point of view.

Give them a choice between
1)Limitless combination of silver and bronze medals.
2)ONE Gold medal.

They would choose that single gold. The ONE gold has higher utility than limitless other medals.

So basically for the Athletes the medals have the following relative utilities.

gold = 999999999999999999
silver = 0.00001
bronze = 0.000000000001
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>> Anonymous
ITT seppos try and newspeak their way onto the top of the tally.
>> Anonymous
quality VS quantity
1x summer glau or over 9000x thai transexual bitches?

i'd choose always quality
>> Anonymous
Sorting by gold medals is right, because a gold medal should have a higher weight than a silver or bronze medal.

If you count by numbers alone, five times bronze would be a better result than four times gold, which is nonsense.

First you sort by gold medals, in case two countries have the same amount of gold medals you compare their silver medals and rank the one which has more of them higher and in case they're equal there as well you compare their bronze medals.
>> Anonymous
sage
>> Anonymous
will you guys just shut up with this shit?

leave americans with their system and everyone else with their
>> Anonymous
I think we should use a system where we use the base metal price and see which country brings home the most money.
Olympic silver medals are made of solid silver, but gold medals are made of silver gilded with at least 6 grams of gold. If we look strictly at the current market prices of precious metals — $19.75 per gram for gold, $0.35 per gram for silver — the minimum value of an Olympic medal would be about $144 for gold and $28 for silver. [All prices in U.S. dollars.] Bronze is presumably worth about as much as a pencil sharpener. This assumes a medal of minimum size based on IOC specifications — 60 mm in diameter and 3 mm thick, weighing about 80g. The Torino doughnuts were much larger than that.
so...
Gold-$144
Silver- $28
Bronze-Pencil sharpener-$5??
>> Anonymous
I'm sure by now some of us Chinese-speaking Americans have already shown your butthurt to China to give them a good laugh.