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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Scoring the Olympic Medal Count

The USA leads China in total Olympic medals at the moment, 57 to 49. However, China leads the USA in gold medals, 27 to 17. So who's ahead???

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
USA 17 18 22 57
China 27 13 9 49

If we score gold as 3 points, silver as 2 and bronze as 1 point, then China has 116 points, and leads the USA with 109 points.

That's a lot of gold medals. Currently in third place is Australia with 29 total medals and 8 gold, or Germany with only 19 total medals (7th overall) but with 9 gold medals, for third among gold only. Here's a full list, current from yahoo as of 10pm Carifornia time, Saturday Aug 16 2008.

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Score
USA 17 18 22 57 109
China 27 13 9 49 116
Australia 8 10 11 29 55
France 3 9 10 22 37
Russia 5 8 8 21 39
South Korea 7 9 4 20 43
Germany 9 5 5 19 42
Japan 7 5 6 18 37
Great Britain 7 3 7 17 34
Italy 6 5 5 16 33
Ukraine 5 2 5 12 24
Cuba 1 3 4 8 13
Belarus 0 2 6 8 10
Netherlands 1 2 4 7 11
Romania 3 1 2 6 13
Kazakhstan 0 3 3 6 9
Czech Republic 2 3 0 5 12
New Zealand 2 1 2 5 10
Switzerland 2 0 3 5 9
Azerbaijan 1 2 2 5 9
North Korea 1 1 3 5 8
Brazil 1 0 4 5 7
Hungary 0 4 1 5 9
Armenia 0 0 5 5 5
Slovakia 3 1 0 4 11
Zimbabwe 1 3 0 4 9
Norway 1 2 1 4 8
Canada 1 1 2 4 7
Indonesia 1 0 3 4 6

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