Medals Table - Top 10

[Xenophon]

Ranking Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 27 13 7 47
2 United States 16 16 22 54
3 Germany 8 5 5 18
4 South Korea 7 9 4 20
5 Australia 7 8 10 25
6 Japan 7 5 5 17
7 Great Britain 7 3 7 17
8 Italy 6 5 5 16
9 Russia 5 8 8 21
10 Ukraine 5 2 5 12

A good Saturday for GB.

[wxman]

Even better today (Sunday)

Team-GB are now THIRD in the table

[snaw]

Interesting - just saw a different table on a US website - they list it by total number of medals. Which means the US come top, and we're joint fifth ...

http://2008games.nytimes.com/olympics/medals.asp

[Xenophon]

Interesting - just saw a different table on a US website - they list it by total number of medals. Which means the US come top, and we're joint fifth ...

http://2008games.nytimes.com/olympics/medals.asp

I wonder why they do it that way.



The BBC are always right of course, so the accepted BBC format wins.

[Xenophon]

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 China 34 13 13 60
2 United States 19 21 25 65
3 Great Britain 11 6 8 25
4 Germany 9 6 6 21
5 Australia 8 10 11 29
6 South Korea 8 9 5 22
7 Japan 8 5 7 20
8 Russia 7 11 12 30
9 Italy 6 6 6 18
10 Ukraine 5 3 6 14
11 France 4 9 12 25
12 Romania 4 1 3 8
13 Spain 3 2 1 6
14 Slovakia 3 1 0 4
15 Netherlands 2 4 4 10
16 Poland 2 3 1 6
17 Czech Republic 2 3 0 5
18 Jamaica 2 2 0 4
19 Canada 2 1 4 7
20 North Korea 2 1 3 6
21 New Zealand 2 1 2 5

I have included the top 21 countries so we can see where NZ stand.

[bodnobal]

Interesting - just saw a different table on a US website - they list it by total number of medals. Which means the US come top, and we're joint fifth ...

http://2008games.nytimes.com/olympics/medals.asp

I suspect the American public don't want to be 2nd best and shate on by some chinkies, so they fiddle the table.

The official Olympic table lists Gold medals won first.

As for the GB team, if Michael Phelps wasn't taking performance drugs (come on he his), we would have the same number of Golds as the USA, not bad for a shyte sporting nation.

[Xenophon]

I suspect the American public don't want to be 2nd best and shate on by some chinkies, so they fiddle the table.

The official Olympic table lists Gold medals won first.

As for the GB team, if Michael Phelps wasn't taking performance drugs (come on he his), we would have the same number of Golds as the USA, not bad for a shyte sporting nation.

WHS

[snaw]

I suspect the American public don't want to be 2nd best and shate on by some chinkies, so they fiddle the table.

The official Olympic table lists Gold medals won first.

As for the GB team, if Michael Phelps wasn't taking performance drugs (come on he his), we would have the same number of Golds as the USA, not bad for a shyte sporting nation.

Agree apart from Phelps - the guy has been tested 40+ times since he arrived in China ffs. He's just got a physiological/natural advantage. Body shape: long torso shorter legs, longer arms, big feet, double jointed, low lactic acid build up so faster recovery etc.

[Xenophon]

Agree apart from Phelps - the guy has been tested 40+ times since he arrived in China ffs. He's just got a physiological/natural advantage. Body shape: long torso shorter legs, longer arms, big feet, double jointed, low lactic acid build up so faster recovery etc.

Phelps: half-man, half-fish.

[TimberWolf]

As for the GB team, if Michael Phelps wasn't taking performance drugs (come on he his), we would have the same number of Golds as the USA

Depends who came second

Speaking of which, we should impregnate Sharon Davis' eggs with Phelps to be guaranteed at least 8 Gold medals. Failing that, I gather Phelps is phelpless on land...