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Interesting medal rankings!
Aug 20, 2008 22:23
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Which country leads Beijing Olympics? It is hard to say. Why? There are various kinds of medal rankings. According to the number of gold medals, China is in the first place. However, if we count the number of all medals, US is No.1. Interesting, isn't it? Here are some medal rankings.

No.1 Gold medal rankings. Most countries in the world adopt this ranking. This is how China's gold medal ranking.



Aug 20, 2008 22:24
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Great Britain's ranking.

Aug 20, 2008 22:25
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Italy's ranking.

Aug 20, 2008 22:26
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Japan's ranking.

Aug 20, 2008 22:28
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Australia's ranking.

Aug 20, 2008 22:28
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USA's medal ranking.

Aug 20, 2008 22:30
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The most interesting one must be South Korea's ranking.

Aug 20, 2008 22:50
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The medal table made by New York Times. They introduce "medal points" to rank the countries' olympic medals:1 point for every bronze medal won, double that to a 2-point award for every silver medal won, and double that again to a 4-point award for every gold medal won.

To get much info, you can have a look at this page: http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/the-medal-rankings-which-country-leads-the-olympics/

According to their medal table, China topped as No.1 in the chart on Monday.

Country Pts G-S-B Tot
1 China 198 39-14-14 67
2 United States 162 22-24-26 72
3 Australia 76 11-10-12 33
4 Russia 73 8-13-15 36
5 Britain 72 12-7-8 27
6 Germany 57 9-7-7 23
7 South Korea 56 8-9-6 23
8 France 51 4-11-13 28
9 Japan 49 8-5-7 20
10 Italy 42 6-6-6 18

It sounds good. But I am wondering why the medal table on its website are the same as others. This is a screenshot of its website.

Aug 20, 2008 22:54
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Here is another medal ranking which take the population size into consideration. Please look at this thread: http://community.travelchinaguide.com/forum2.asp?i=48493
Aug 21, 2008 02:09
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GUESTLENA QIAN Rather interesting medal rankings!
Aug 21, 2008 05:13
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GUEST68150 American is afraid of facing with reality of its losing absolute dominant position in Olympic. Ridiculous ranking indeed.
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