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14 Responses to 'why the olympics metal ranking is by total metals on Yahoo US, while it;s by gold medal count on all others?'

1. Junta - October 17th, 2009 at 5:24 am

   Because the Americans want to be look good.

2. Oreelio Sanchez - October 20th, 2009 at 10:33 am

   for the love of God.

3. bleuwra - October 21st, 2009 at 9:10 am

   It tells us you have too much time on your hands.

4. Momochi Zabuza - October 24th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

   Many Americans can’t stand losing, and American Media can’t stand losing to the Chinese.

5. trer - October 25th, 2009 at 10:26 pm

   We are already second place to China in terms of economics and military power. This is all we have left. At least let us tell ourselves that we have the most medals.

6. Me - October 26th, 2009 at 8:21 pm

   It tells me that this is the 100th time this question has been asked.

7. ♪ Positivity ♪ - October 27th, 2009 at 10:35 am

   Do you guys have a problem with the way we count our medals? I mean WORRY about your country, don’t **** on ours.

   Team USA!!!

8. Kurt - October 28th, 2009 at 11:02 am

   It tells us that we have got to find a new topic to discuss.

9. m_m - October 30th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

   yea, i live here of love it… but the media is what it is… they need to learn few basics still…

10. Joyce - November 2nd, 2009 at 3:34 am

    As for the ranking, our beloved Americans now have a new argument for saying that it’s actually U.S.A that has won the most gold, not China.

    Surprised? Want to know why they think this way?

    Well, instead of counting gold for each sport as a single event, our beloved Americans want to count all the people who receive gold. So, if U.S wins basketball, then, it is not one gold for this event, but all the basketball players, that’s more than 10 gold for basketball alone. Since U.S.A has won more TEAM sports, they of course will have more gold if you count gold this way. See?

    America CANNOT lose, no matter what. We are the superior race.

11. K Teik - November 4th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    USA is so cute…. Aren’t they afraid that this matter will be use as ‘laughing matter’ by the world. XD

12. Best P - November 5th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    You’re Chinese?

13. dahgutone - November 9th, 2009 at 3:05 am

    Relax, the IOC goes by gold medal count.

    The US media has historically ranked countries in an ‘overall total’ manner, with all medals being added up and a ranking based on which country has the greatest number.

    Basiclly, Yahoo can make it total medal count, or gold medal count. But the IOC REALLY goes by gold medal count. The media just likes twist things around.

    “The ranking sorts by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have earned (in this context, a “nation” is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee).”

    China ranked number 1.

    The table original sorted here is the real medal count organized by the IOC.
    Here, this will determine who ranked in medal count.

14. buzzards27 - November 9th, 2009 at 7:40 am

    because the USA was the better team.

    Total Medalists

    USA = 315
    China = 186

    Total Gold Medalists

    USA = 125
    China = 74

    Total Silver Medalists

    USA = 109
    China = 56

    Total Bronze Medalists

    USA = 81
    China = 56

    Considering that the Chinese had more atheletes that the USA the USA was far better….

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