Posted on 08/23/2008 5:38:54 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
After listing the total medal count by the highest number of medals won, Yahoo now lists China first due to more Gold medals.
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Your “sort” is on gold.
Yahoo is correct.
For total medal count, US is listed first.
So now we are forced to debate what really counts: number of gold metals vs. number of total metals. In other words, the decline of America continues.
Well, if you weight the medals (gold = 3, silver =2, bronze =1), China leads as well. However, this is an aberration. Expect the Chinese gold medal count to drop like a lead balloon when the games are in London.
Can’t wait! I’d still like to see the true ages of the Chinese ‘women’ gymnasts. They won’t be able to get away with fake numbers in London.
Are they weighted 3-2-1 or 5-3-1? I’ve seen people do it both ways.
Yep, and the British medal count will go up dramatically. ;-)
The ability to find Olympic candidates and train them successfully is not a mark of success in the eyes of God, or a free and moral people.
(Prov 14:34) “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”
“Are they weighted 3-2-1 or 5-3-1? I’ve seen people do it both ways.”
They’re just counting totals. Earlier I weighted them 3-2-1 and came up with China 213, USA 212. That’s from the 107 - 96 total medal standing.
A few more to go.
Even worse, we must determine the metals that make up the medals.
Medals made of cheap metal are no darn good.
Even illiterates can win them.
China put out a huge ad in their state run paper the other day saying “Finally - 1st” that they won the olympics by having won the most Gold.
What a bunch of COMMIE B.S.
LMFAO
They’re not doing bad; let’s see how they do in REAL SPORTS.
I take it you God really doesn’t want people developing those evil talents He gave them?
Really looking forward to that!!
The order of the list depends on how you sort the list. There are 4 ways that the viewer of the page can sort the list:
The listing is a little confusing until you figure out how to customize the listing by clicking on the appropriate symbol at the top of the page.
Do you think a gold medal should be the same value as a silver or bronze?
Thanks. My page listed total medal count but must have been sorted to the Golds by someone else in my house. All I could see was total medal count and China first.
No, it is matter of priority and quality. It is God who gives talents, and to develop such is a good attribute in and of itself, but it is the heart that determines the motive and the means for which they will be used, and it is an right heart should have the highest esteem. And in this contest all can participate.
And a country that excels in natural abilities while engaging in systematic imprisonment of those who worship the One who gave them, as well as anyone else who manifestly disagrees with them, is not worthy of the manner of accolades it seeks for itself.
I am also not impressed by Obama’s gifted oratory, but esteem Mcain’s patriotic perseverance during 5+ years of brutal captivity, though i disagree with him in some other things.
If it wasn’t for the frickin’ mens and womens relay teams dropping the baton, we would have beaten China on the 3-2-1 weighting, we lost out by three points.
I have one made of wood....
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Could someone give me an event, preferrably as obscure an event as possible, where England beat the US for a medal? I want to tease a friend with some faked outrage about our loss in some meaningless event. Thanks in advance...JFK
Your first paragraph would not preclude atheletes glorifying God by competing in the Olympics. We all use the talents we have and some in different ways. Excelling as a wordl class athelete does not indicate an evil heart.
“If it wasn’t for the frickin’ mens and womens relay teams dropping the baton, we would have beaten China on the 3-2-1 weighting, we lost out by three points.”
It was extremely close. China wins so many medals in stuff like ping pong and other obscure sports. But they’ll probably win the most, or be very close for the foreseeable future. The old USSR use to win the most medals through 1980 with their state run sports programs which operated about like China has begun to operate, identifying promising kids soon after they learn to walk.
We will still compete with them and might well win the most some Olympics, but the state run sports will continue winning many medals in the lesser known sports because they’ll always identify someone to train for every medal competition. China’s Project 119.
What’s interesting is that if you added up the total medal count of all of the former Soviet states, they would have won overwhelmingly the total medal count over both the US and China.
But the good news is that the Anglosphere (USA, UK and Australia) all finished in the Top Five in medals.
Here’s an interesting site that shows total medals won from 1896 to 2008. Just put the slider on the year at the top, then page down to see the medal count for the year you picked. Actually, the USSR and Russian Federation had to most through 1992, and didn’t drop off much until 2008:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html
“Excelling as a wordl class athelete does not indicate an evil heart.”
In-deed, as Eric Lidell demonstrated. And that is not not what i said or implied, but you missed my point as to what is essential to greatness in God’s eyes, and which should be behind every effort.
(Psa 147:10-11) “He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. {11} The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.”
36 facts about the Olympic medal count
32) China won 27 gold medals in judged sports.
33) The United States won 4 gold medals in judged sports.
34) China’s “real” medal tally was 24/17/14/55.
35) The “real” medal tally for the United States: 32/31/27/80.
Thanks. I suspected that the judged sports were heavily weighted toward China after I noticed that frequently the judges listed were from Venezuela, Russia or the like. I know it would be near impossible but politics shouldn’t have anything to do with an athletic competition of any sort.
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