Beijing 2008 Olympics Medal Tally

[Sirius]

Dear Forumers and Sports fans,

As you all may already know, the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympics will take place tomorrow, August 8, 2008.

The Orange Room will update the Medal Tally daily over the course of this huge sporting event.

We also created a poll to see who you think will manage to grab the most Gold medals, below are the Athens 2004 Final Medal Tally.

[Sirius]

[dodzi]

4 years ago, China came close to equaling the US in the number of Gold medals! This year it will beat it!

[ELIminator]

China will definitely beat the States in Gold Medals ranking, however the battle will be tough & close in the total number of Medals (Gold, Silver & Bronze)

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[dodzi]

Originally Posted by ELIminator

China will definitely beat the States in Gold Medals ranking, however the battle will be tough & close in the total number of Medals (Gold, Silver & Bronze)

rgds;

The ranking of the countries is only related to the number of gold medals, not the total number of medals... Check the list above, there are many examples!

[Sirius]

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[Sirius]

[sev]

The real winner at the Olympics is ... Armenia
Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:48 GMT
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BEIJING (Reuters) - With a population of 1.3 billion some might argue that China should be leading the medal tally at the Olympics but the real winner is ... Armenia.

The Los Angeles Times has compiled a tongue-in-cheek list of winning nations based on medals per capita and six days into the August 8-24 Games the former Soviet republic of Armenia, with a population of nearly 3 million, leads with three bronze medals.

Georgia, with 4.6 million people, is in second place with two gold medals -- in men's judo and Greco-Roman wrestling -- and one bronze, while at home the nation is at loggerheads with Russia over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.

Australia, with a population of 20.5 million, is standing firmly in third place with 16 medals, including five gold medals, three of them won by rising star of the pool Stephanie Rice.

Switzerland, with 7.6 million people, won a cluster of cycling medals to ride into fourth place, with Roger Federer still in the hunt for the men's tennis title.

The alternative medal table by the Los Angeles Times had the Bahamas, with a population of 300,000, winning the medal count at both the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Athens Games in 2004.


Oddly Enough | Africa - Reuters.com

[Sirius]

I kind of agree that the population needs to be taken into consideration, you cannot expect a nation of 1.3 billion to compete with another of 10 million, but there also needs to be floor to this. If a country of 100,000 people wins a single medal, then it would really be unfair to place it on the top of the rankings... that single athlete who got the bronze medal might be easily from a top sporting nation (maybe American) and was given the citizenship just to get that medal. So there kinda should be balance between population and number of medals won I suppose...