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Thread: The USA are the winners?!
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[quote=DODGER,315480]Ok, so I’m just back from church where I managed to pick up a nice bottle of château 98. While waiting for it to breath I found this three day old article on an Ozzie sports site…… Will America concede defeat? America, like the rest of the world, has traditionally measured the Olympic standings according to the most gold medals attained. But as they appear increasingly unlikely to win enough gold medals to depose China from the top, America has taken to a different way of judging the leaderboard. The new system takes into account the overall medal tally to judge the leader, and has been adopted throughout the American media. Using this method, which can be seen on NBC.com and on The New York Times website, the US would be first with 82 medals, while China’s 79 medals (at the time of writing) would put them in second place. But the official way of calculation, set by the IOC and which is adopted by the rest of the world, is developed according to the number of gold medals attained, followed by silver and then bronze. It could be argued that the overall medal tally is a perfectly reasonable (or fair) way of measurement. However USA has never used this system in the past and shouldn’t start now just because it suits them. With three days of competition remaining, it is highly unlikely that they will pick up enough gold medals to surpass China. America has won every Summer Olympics since Barcelona in 1992, although it looks like their 16-year reign is about to come to an end. But whether they (the Americans) have the balls to concede defeat is another question. Looks like they don’t. Dodger. [/quote]
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