And that is the stress point there. This isn’t the americans this is the media. And you cannot judge everyday people by the media. The media is showing a tainted picture. IT is what the media does best.

Just as it wasn’t the swedens who through a fit when not getting the gold. It was one man. Yes, he repersented his country but I am sure he was heavily reprimanded becuse it made his whole nation look bad. But I personally do not judge a whole nation by one man. I am not going to say all swedes are poor sports because of that one man.

and neither will I say all americans can’t stand to lose to the the chinese because of the media’s biased rating system.

also, the judging system is not done but purely the chinese there is a board of judges from other countries hand selected.

The US has historically submitted a large, if not the largest, team to each Olympics and consequently have more chance of winning a larger number of overall medals. Perhaps, aware of this, the US media realise that ranking competing nations using the total medal count is more likely make it look like the US are doing well, or perhaps its just another example of the US doing something different to the rest of the world, because that’s what they do. If its the latter, then as stated above it makes no logical sense and I don’t know why they persist with it, other than “that’s the way they’ve always done it” – although the New York Times article suggests otherwise.

The US has always used Total Medal Count.

It doesn’t matter what the IOC uses.