China is absolutely kicking ass at the Olympics but the Americans have somehow managed to alter the ranking system to put themselves top of the table!

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/olympics2008/index.html

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summe...dals?page=total

Now lets have a look how the medal table looks officially...

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/E...GL0000000.shtml



I reckon UK will soon take over America (and if Phelps wasn't swimmin we'd already be 2nd! )

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Originally posted by Overall Medal Standings Rank by Total - 1 (United States)

Lollerskates at America!
stupids.

Huh? Nothing you said made any sense. All of those websites have the same results.

And, Phelps won 8 Golds. Take that away from the 22 overall US Golds and that's 14 Golds for Americans not named Phelps. UK has 12 Golds.

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Originally posted by Shamez214 Huh? Nothing you said made any sense. All of those websites have the same results.

But the table of most successful country or state goes by Golds won, then by Silvers, then Bronze.
The US websites have put US on top for most overall medals, when it does not work like that. Stupid.

Wah wah wah.

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Originally posted by Saka But the table of most successful country or state goes by Golds won, then by Silvers, then Bronze. The US websites have put US on top for most overall medals, when it does not work like that. Stupid.

i didn't know that.

it makes sense though, silver is the #1 loser. gold's where it's at

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Originally posted by Shamez214 Wah wah wah.

Pal, I haven't thrown my dummy out the pram, it's called being right.

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Originally posted by George Smiley China is absolutely kicking ass at the Olympics but the Americans have somehow managed to alter the ranking system to put themselves top of the table! http://www.nytimes.com/pages/olympics2008/index.html http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summe...dals?page=total Now lets have a look how the medal table looks officially... http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/E...GL0000000.shtml I reckon UK will soon take over America (and if Phelps wasn't swimmin we'd already be 2nd! )

I don't see a big deal about it unless they're falsifying the stats. It's still clear that China is running away with the golds, while the US is winning all medals equally.

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they should change the title of those tables to 'events results' since technically the US will have more golds brought home when you consider that all members of team sports and relays get golds. and as long as i can remember, american newspapers have always done the tables by overall medals.

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