According to the International Olympic Committee, The ranking is sorted by the number of gold medals. In a gold medal tie, the ranking is then sorted by the number of silver medals, and in a gold + silver medal tie, the ranking is then sorted by the number of bronze medals. As such, aren’t most US news media, including Yahoo! Olympic coverage, intentionally misleading us when they rank by total medal instead of gold medals?

Well China won the first rank of Olympic Games. Yes they are very good at diving, table tennis, weight lifting among which they can almost get all the gold medals.

But as for football games, which was invented by the ancient chinese, they can never say they good at. Some chinese even make fun of their football team. say that even the eternity God can not wait to see their team to win the world cup.

So anybody can tell me why China can not have a good football team, and what is the rank of chinese football team?

why the olympics metal ranking is by total metals on Yahoo US, while it;s by gold medal count on all international Yahoo sites?

further more, why this is the 1st time total metal count is used in US media for the ranking? check any previous like 2004 game coverage in US (and all over the world), total gold medal count had been used.
what does this tell us?

It works like this: Gold-5 points. Silver-3 points, and bronze-1 point. Could anyone tell me the ranking of US and China up to now using this method? I am just too lazy. Thank you.

What is the official final medal ranking method? Absolute total number of medals or lexicographical ranking?

** Golden Silver Bronze Total
USA 10 8 9 27
China 15 3 5 23
Now China have more golden medals while america holds more total medals. I found some web sites(mostly american) state that USA leads the ranking of the olympics. Some says that China does. Can any one tell me if i can find an official ranking to end my confusion.