Olympic medal table is supposed to be based on total medals not just golds

[renard_ruse]

When I was growing up Olympic medals tables were based on TOTAL number of medals each country won. If there was a tie in total medals only then would golds be used as a tie-breaker, followed by silver, then bronze. The reasoning was total medals shows depth over the whole program while a few standouts can ring up a bunch of golds on a relatively weak team.

In recent years the lamestream meedeeuh has started listing the table in some confusing convoluted ranking system with only most golds being used followed by silver and bronze as tie-breakers with total medals not counting for anything. The meedeeuh likes to justify this stupid system by claiming its "the official IOC system" however from my investigation the IOC doesn't officially recognize the medals table anyway. Its informal only. When you go to the official Olympics site while it does show the gold based ranking first it also allows the user to easily resort the table based on total medals by country.

https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Winter_Olympics_medal_table

 

[renard_ruse]

Of course the US meedeeuh loves to use this system because Russia frequently wins many silvers and bronzes while the US often wins more golds and less silver and bronze. So they are able to flash the misleading table to make Americans think they are superior to Russians.

For example while Russia has far more total medals at Beijing than the US (17 to 12) the US has a couple more golds. Thus on the table they show the US shows as third while Russia is only 7th and they can cut the table to not show below the top three countries.

Likewise Japan has several more medals than China but China is shown much higher on the table despite less medals. Likewise for France and Italy.

 

[hobbit.]

fewer people care about the winter sliding about a bit games than care about the summer running around and throwing things games. except of course major corporations who get publicity from them.

Curling? WTF is that about? for example. (other than keeping a few celts and french speaking cannucks in a state of mind which they call contented)