US Leads All Countries In Medal Count

[EM31]

OK I am going to have to call MAJOR BS on this one.

Traditionally the medal table and rankings at the Olympics has been measured not in total medals won but who has more golds and if there is a tie, who has more silvers and so on.

Now we seem to have a collusion amongst US sporting media to report the medals table with the US in the top spot by virtue of having more total medals despite the fact the China is clearly gapping the US in golds. No America, one bronze does not equal one gold or one silver. What a bunch of cheats.

ESPN http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/medals
CBS http://www.sportsline.com/olympics
FOX http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics

The rest of the world is still using the traditional (non-cheating) method of tallying scores.

here http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olym...le/default.stm

and here http://www.globesports.com/beijing2008/#widgetTab

[SMC]

Dude, WTF?!!?

The US media has always used the total medal count.

[EM31]

Originally Posted by SMC

Dude, WTF?!!?

The US media has always used the total medal count.

Let me see if I can find any other country that uses such an odd count.

[samwise]

cheating ?

nah

[USAFJETSFAN]

You are not a bright person. Your sources are a Brit and Canadien website.

[EM31]

Australia.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/beijing_olympics/

Here's an intering one (Australian FOX) hahaha.... being honeds even where it hurts the Aussies

http://www.foxsports.com.au/

[samwise]

you can post 100 other nations way of doing it

what is relevant is how the US reported it in athens

[Buzzsaw]

Wouldn't the American media be the people tallying the medals. Why would you call the American athletes cheaters? This is a very PatsFanTx-like thread dude....

[EM31]

France

http://www.lemonde.fr/sport-jo-pekin...e/standing.php

[chirorob]

It's not cheating, but he is correct in that a gold should not equal a bronze.

I remember they used to use some kind of points system, where basically a Gold was 3, a Silver was 2, and a bronze was 1, thereby properly weighting the different medals.

Winning 15 gold medals is more impressive than winning 20 bronze medals.

[samwise]

Originally Posted by EM31

France

http://www.lemonde.fr/sport-jo-pekin...e/standing.php

dude

go dig up how the US media did it in athens

[EM31]

It is pretty clear that the US is reporting it in a way that is presenting a medals table that makes no sense. A bronze is "worth" as much as a gold??? I have never seen it done that way and the only rationale seems to be so that the US can be shown on top.

Which is clearly BS. 43 golds to 26 is a huge margin.

[EM31]

Originally Posted by samwise

dude

go dig up how the US media did it in athens

Why dont you. I have shown five different countries all doing it one way. Are you seriously suggesting that one bronze sghould equal one gold?

[RutgersJetFan]

Not for nothing but I'm fairly certain this is how the US media's always done it. I remember them doing that all the way back during the Barcelona games.

[EM31]

Originally Posted by Buzzsaw

Wouldn't the American media be the people tallying the medals. Why would you call the American athletes cheaters? This is a very PatsFanTx-like thread dude....

Please point out where I have accused American athletes of being cheaters otherwise please be more careful about making such accusations.

[jets1028]

The season can't get here fast enough..

[PocketJet]

Originally Posted by EM31

OK I am going to have to call MAJOR BS on this one.

Traditionally the medal table and rankings at the Olympics has been measured not in total medals won but who has more golds and if there is a tie, who has more silvers and so on.

Now we seem to have a collusion amongst US sporting media to report the medals table with the US in the top spot by virtue of having more total medals despite the fact the China is clearly gapping the US in golds. No America, one bronze does not equal one gold or one silver. What a bunch of cheats.

ESPN http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/medals
CBS http://www.sportsline.com/olympics
FOX http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics

The rest of the world is still using the traditional (non-cheating) method of tallying scores.

here http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olym...le/default.stm

and here http://www.globesports.com/beijing2008/#widgetTab

The shame of all this is this was not supposed to be what the Olympic Spirit is about. Instead of enjoying the games for their athletic competition and excellence, we have NBC and affiliate netwroks and the press constantly barking about olympic gold and medal counts. Truly insane.

[Buzzsaw]

Originally Posted by EM31

Please point out where I have accused American athletes of being cheaters otherwise please be more careful about making such accusations.

In your thread title. It's been edited for accuracy too. You're welcome

[jetstream23]

Is this serious?

You're really bothered by this?

When ALL of the media outlets are doing it this way here it doesn't seem to be an anomoly. If only gold medals counted then they wouldn't give out silvers and bronzes.

[EM31]

Originally Posted by jetstream23

Is this serious?

You're really bothered by this?

When ALL of the media outlets are doing it this way here it doesn't seem to be an anomoly. If only gold medals counted then they wouldn't give out silvers and bronzes.

All media outlets in the US are doing it this way because that is the only wierd way of counting that favors the US. Everyone else in the world does it another way. All the same as each other.

Perhaps we should start giving certificates for the top twenty in each event? Gold stars and such like.