United States 110, China 100, Russia 72, Britain 47, Australia 46,
Germany 41, France 40, Korea 31, Italy 28, Ukraine 27, Japan 25, Cuba 24,
Belarus 19, Spain 18, Canada 18, Netherlands 16, Brazil 15, Kenya 14,
Kazakhstan 13, Jamaica 11, Poland 10, Hangury 10, Norway 10,
New Zealand 9, Romania 8, Turkey 8, Ethiopia 7, Denmark 7, Azerbaijan 7,
Czech Republic 6, Slovakia 6, Georgia 6, North Korea 6, Argentina 6,
Switzerland 6, Uzbekistan 6, Armenia 6, Slovenia 5, Bulgaria 5,
Indonesia 5, Sweden 5, Croatia 5, Lithuania 5, Mongolia 4, Thailand 4,
Zimbabwe 4, Finland 4, Greece 4, Nigeria 4, Taiwan 4, Mexico 3, Latvia 3,
India 3, Austria 3, Ireland 3, Serbia 3, Belgium 2, Dominican Republic 2,
Estonia 2, Portugal 2, I.R.Iran 2, Trinidad & Tobago 2, Algeria 2,
Bahamas 2, Colombia 2, Kyrgyzstan 2, Morocco 2, Tajikistan 2, Bahrain 1,
Cameroon 1, Panama 1, Tunisia 1, Chile 1, Ecuador 1, Iceland 1, Malaysia 1,
Netherlands Antilles 1, Singapore 1, South Africa 1, Sudan 1, Vietnam 1,
Afganistan 1, Egypt 1, Israel 1, Mauritius 1, Moldova 1, Togo 1, Venezuela 1.
5 comments:
Double standards live on.
China won the Olympics, for example here:
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/
http://olympic2008.lenta.ru/
and USA won the Olympics on their news sites:
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/medals
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2008/medals/tracker/
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2008summerolympics/index.html
http://www.nbcolympics.com/
So, I invite the readers to find a US-based site who claims China as the first rank.
@@@ zhora
As far as Info Press is concerned it is not double standards.
If we count only the gold medals, we are harming the olympic idea itself.
Total count of medals for each country is quite appropriate.
Actually, the Olympic idea is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_medal_table
and US was historically releasing tables sorted by the totals, and the world media was sorting by gold, then silver, then bronze. Weighted rankings in points did not gain much traction.
@@@ anon
Well Zhora, if we count as per head of population, Australia is #1.
Actually, not a bad idea, and it was proposed by someone in a local paper in Canada: create Popular Olympics and select the participants from the general population. This way, whichever countries have healthier population, bring more medals. Now time to find sponsors who would sponsor such games (McDonalds sponsors nearly everything, but their food is not healthy for the participants in such games).
As for the medals and tables, there are two extremes now: US counting totals and treating gold, silver and bronze the same, and the world counting only golds and ignoring silver and bronze. Britain had a system where they gave five points for gold, three for solver and one for bronze, which is also too much. 3-2-1 or 5-4-3 would be better weights.
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