Lol no, America, that's not how it works.
Actually, that is how it works. When medal count is tied, the one with the most golds is given the top spot. If that's tied, then it goes to who has the most silvers, then the most bronzes.
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Actually, that is how it works. When medal count is tied, the one with the most golds is given the top spot. If that's tied, then it goes to who has the most silvers, then the most bronzes.
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Just to be clear, if the total is tied, and the golds are tied, and the silvers are tied, going to "most bronzes" is not going to resolve anything.
That aside, I've never cared much about medal counts by nations.
There have been some awesome performances already though. The Aussies women 4x100 free relay was really strong. No comparison to the Hungarian girl in the 400 IM though.
I used to run a competition pool for an NCAA national champion team, and you just don't see records break that way. Records break when a great swimmer is pressed by at least one other great swimmer. If they aren't pushed going out by yourself and breaking a record is hard. To see someone blow away the world record while winning by five lengths is just extraordinary.
Medal tally is most golds first
You only go by that because that puts your beloved Australia in first place.
Most media outlets that track medal count rank nations by total medal count, with type of medals won being tie breakers. Since there is no official ranking system for medal count by nation, I'll go by what the majority of media outlets go by.
Right now though, China is in the lead with 6 total medals. The US is in second and Japan is in third, both with 5 medals. Both the US and Japan have 1 gold, but the US gets second place because they have 4 silvers and Japan has 0 silvers and 4 bronzes.
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uh, no, it goes by golds. always has. do you really think a team with 4 bronzes outranks a team with 3 golds, because there's more of them?
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If someone had pressed her she'd have set the world record in the 400 free, no question.
You only go by that because that puts your beloved Australia in first place.
Most media outlets that track medal count rank nations by total medal count, with type of medals won being tie breakers. Since there is no official ranking system for medal count by nation, I'll go by what the majority of media outlets go by.
Right now though, China is in the lead with 6 total medals. The US is in second and Japan is in third, both with 5 medals. Both the US and Japan have 1 gold, but the US gets second place because they have 4 silvers and Japan has 0 silvers and 4 bronzes.
I've literally never seen anyone other than like NBC rank like that. It's also not how the actual Olympic websites or the Wikipedia norm do it (see below). Hence "lol America no".
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I have a very bad feeling about the Dutch girl who was in the lead and crashed on the descent. That was a horrible crash.
After Majlinda Kalmedi won Kosovo's first medal with a judo gold here's some others who could win their country's first medal:
https://www.rio2016.com/en/news/nations-countries-history-first-olympic-games-medal-gold-rio-2016
Fijian mens sevens team probably the strongest chance. Hard to see them missing the semi finals at least.
The San Marino trap shooter didn't get close.
https://www.rio2016.com/en/news/nations-countries-history-first-olympic-games-medal-gold-rio-2016
Fijian mens sevens team probably the strongest chance. Hard to see them missing the semi finals at least.
The San Marino trap shooter didn't get close.
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NBC has reported that Annemiek van Vleuten "is fine." This is a unique way to describe what other media are reporting as a severe concussion and multiple compression fractures in the lumbar vertebrae, but she is conscious and seems to have not suffered spinal cord damage so on a relative scale...
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I'd say the German Anti-doping controls really work well. As thorough as always! Not a single medal after 2 days.
If both teams had the same number of athletes competing, then yes, I would say the one with 4 bronzes is better than the one with 3 golds. The team with three golds may have had three highly talented athletes, but the rest of their team stunk it up out there, while the team with four bronzes had a higher percentage of medal-winning athletes, even if they were "lower quality" medals.
The whole medal-count thing is just an imperfect, arbitrary guideline to help gauge how well a team does in the Olympics. It's just like Michael Phelps, "the greatest olympian ever", with 22 medals: Lebron James and Michael Jordan would never even get a chance to compete in that category. They are basketball players. Some sports are heavily weighted with medal counts, like swimming and speed skating. Others, like hockey, are not weighted enough. Canada's one gold in hockey should outweigh Anton Ono's 3 bronzes in speed skating.
At the end of the day, it just is what it is. A gold in basketball is a gold in basketball, and a gold in diving is a gold in diving.
At the end of the day, it just is what it is. A gold in basketball is a gold in basketball, and a gold in diving is a gold in diving.
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