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AUSTRALIA FUCK YEAH Anonymous
..............................Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. China .............35 ....13 ....13 ......61
2. United States .19 ....21 ......25 ...... 65
3. Australia .........11 ...10 ....12 .......33
>> Anonymous
You're doing it wrong:

Total medals, not Gold medals.
>> Anonymous
>>267275
No you're doing it wrong, it has and will always be counted by golds
>> Anonymous
>>267279

NO U
>> Anonymous
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Ausfags detected
>> Anonymous
Gold = you are the best in certain sport. Period.
Silver, Bronze = you are close to the best man, but you still aren't the best.
>> Anonymous
>>267275
hope youre kidding.
almost ALL media outlets do it by most gold
other than the USA. check if you don't believe
>> Anonymous
>>267275
american maths = FAIL
>> Anonymous
>>267293

YOU'RE THE BEST
AROUND
NOTHIN'S EVER GONNA TAKE YOU DOWN

Emphasizing Gold alone is stupid, if you're going to do that you might as well only award people who break world records. Otherwise, people were still better than you IN THE PAST.
>> Anonymous
put phelps against thorpe and van den hoogenband and he FAILED
>> Anonymous
>>267301
it's like this, dumbass
if china and the USA is tied for 50 golds, then it will go down to who has more silvers, and etc.
not by TOTALS
>> Anonymous
>>267319

4 years ago. He wasn't at his peak. Thorpe is a washed-up piece of shit who will forever be in the shadow of the great PHELPS
>> Anonymous
>>267323

Stupid Eurofag fails to miss point of the post. Typical.
>> Anonymous
I guess it's true, Ausyland > Euroland.

I've noticed quite a few news stations and sites announcing by medal count instead of golds this year (like fucking yahoo). It's humiliating that they actually feed this crap to people and portray that we're in first place, when we're getting our asses kicked by China in golds.
>> Anonymous
>>267301
No but it means you are the best in the world at thins particular point in time
>> Anonymous
>>267361

Self-hating American Obamacolyte
>> Anonymous
>>267299
Doesn't matter what the media reports. IOC reports by gold, if you report by anything else, you're a fag.

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml
>> Anonymous
>>267376

Fail. IOC doesn't list anything officially, that's the Beijing Organizing Committee site.
>> Anonymous
only american sites sort it by total medal count. and they've only changed it this year since they realised they wouldn't get as many golds. i bet the next olympics they change it back again.
>> Anonymous
>>268400

Yawn, troll'd by someone who is jealous the US and wants the cheating Chinks to win.
>> Anonymous
>>268405
Which one would you take? 8 silver medals, 12 bronze medals OR 16 gold medals.
>> Anonymous
>>268411

Logical fallacy is a logical fallacy.

Here, have some copypasta:

The point I hear from most of the LOL GOLDS ONLY people is that medal tables somehow make Bronze medals as important as Gold medals. Logical fallacy right there.

If a country gets the most Golds, but loses the overall medal count, it shows that they're only concerned with easy wins in obscure sports, or they have 1-2 wunderkinds that win shit, with no depth. The total count is more important because it shows that a country has good athletes across the board, and therefore is athletically superior.

Do you really think a country that gets nothing but Golds, say, Track and Field, but no other medals, should be considered greater than a country that has three times as many medals overall?

The Olympics are about OVERALL athleticism, not a few events in which a country stacks the odds or simply funds with national money for easy wins.
>> Anonymous
Phelps has more gold medals on his own than all but 8 countries in the world.

More than France and Spain combined.
>> Anonymous
>>268414
It's not a logical fallacy. All I am saying is that certain medals have certain weights attached to them. (utility if you prefer to use economic jargon. so depending on the utility function people might prefer 2 golds to 1 silver and 2 bronze for example)

I think people should just use a weighted sum to calculate the rank. Like
gold =3
silver=2
bronze=1

Or a better one
gold =4
silver = 2
bronze =1

since it puts more emphasis on the winner.
>> Anonymous
>>268423

Hay look he didn't even read the post he's linking.

GTFO
>> Anonymous
>>268430
so there you go. sorting by golds is pretty much the same as the more complicated weighted sum.
>> Anonymous
If you do 4 points for gold, 2 for silver, and 1 for bronze, this is how it looks:

198 CHN
162 USA
76 AUS
73 RUS
70 GBR
57 GER
56 KOR
51 FRA
49 JPN
42 ITA
34 UKR

Even if you do 3/2/1 points for the medals, China still wins:

159 CHN
140 USA
65 AUS
65 RUS
58 GBR
48 GER
48 KOR
47 FRA
41 JPN
36 ITA
29 UKR
>> Anonymous
>>268423

cut the swimming events in half and give Baskeball 10 gold medals and then it's fair
>> Anonymous
>>268437
In fact, devaluing golds to 3 pts instead of 4 doesn't change the order at all.
>> Anonymous
>>268414easy wins in obscure sports

like Weightlifting
>> Anonymous
Hahaha, some people actually sort by total medals?
>> Anonymous
China has won gold in

Artistic Gymnastics
Badminton
Diving
Fencing
Judo
Rowing
Shooting
Swimming
Table Tennis
Trampoline
Weightlifting
Wrestling

only
fencing
shooting and trampoline could be considered obscure.
>> Anonymous
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Oh uh Europe is here.
>> Anonymous
>>268459
and we can tell when the USA USA USA! bunch is here too!
>> Anonymous
>>268452
Mens fencing right? Cause I thought the Amerikkkan women swept fencing
>> Anonymous
>>268452
>artistic gymnastics
>badminton
>table tennis
>trampoline
>not obscure

wut
>> Anonymous
Shit Europe wants to lose ANOTHER World War to the US.
>> Anonymous
>>268465
that's cos Amerikkkans were focusing on obscure sports to maximize the chances of golds!
>> Anonymous
>>268467
>artistic gymnastics
>wut

You're a dumbshit. Artistic gymnastics is probably the biggest component of the summer Olympics next to track and field and swimming.

If you think it's obscure then you must be confusing it with RHYTHMIC gymnastics, where the contenders play around with balls and streamers and shit.
>> Anonymous
>>267293
Gold = you are the best in certain sport. Period.

Silver, Bronze = you are behind Michael Phelps.
>> Anonymous
why is australia so amazing
what are they putting in their water
>> Anonymous
Sorry EU

This is now /phelps/

Please relocate to /EPL/ so we never see you and your love of soccer (LOL BRITISH INVENTED THAT TERM, NOT US) again.
>> Anonymous
>>268467
artistic gymnastics has been a very strong part of USA

As for badminton and table tennis, you guys just assume American is China's only rival in every sport which is not the case. Malaysia/Indonesia/Korea are super strong in Badminton while Japan/Germany are strong in Table Tennis.

They aren't obscure by any measure and is played in every country of the world by a large population.

Don't know what your point is about trampolining since i did acklowledge it being obscure.

I guess we should remove USA's gold in Equestrian too (horse riding)
>> Anonymous
1.China see names 39 14 14 67

2.United States see names 22 24 26 72

3.Great Britain see names 12 7 8 27

4.Australia see names 11 10 12 33
>> Anonymous
Yawn.

The UK is what again? Your GDP is, 9th in the world or something? 10th? If even? Oh, and how many medals do you have?

Oh, that's right.
>> Anonymous
>>268494
we have 12 gold medals which would be close to USA had it not been for the One Man Phelps team. USA is failing hard at this olympics. Who will you rely on when Phelps doesn't show up?
>> Anonymous
>>268494
Maybe in another 10 years, you will guess correctly.
>> Anonymous
oh yeah we're third in the table now.
>> Anonymous
>>268503

UK's #1 export: Bad teeth.

MORE CRUMPETS, GUVNAH?
>> Anonymous
>>268521
USA #1 Export: Jesus
>> Anonymous
>>268521
USA's #1 swimmer = crooked teeth. I guess he must be british then and brits should get all of his gold medals.
>> Anonymous
USA #1 import: beaners