So… who really win the Olympics Games? Should we crown the country who wins the most medals? Or should we be crowning the country who wins the most gold medals? This seems to be a philosophical question dividing a continent. Is it the United States or Canada?
There are a number of media outfits, like Eurosport, who have been ranking countries by the types of medals they have won, giving president to the total number of Gold’s, then Silvers, then Bronze. You get the idea. According to them, Canada is the winner with 14 Gold Medals, then Germany with 10 Gold Medals, and finally in order to break the third place tie between the United States and Norway, with 9 Gold Medals a piece, they turn to Silver Medals, allowing the U.S. to edge out the Norwegians 15 Silvers to 8.
However, there are other news agencies that use the total medal count in awarding the winning county. Making the United States the all around champ with 37 medals, Germany is again in second place with 30 medals, and Canada claims third place with 26 medals.
So, which one should be use? Well, on their official Vancouver Olympics website (http://www.vancourver2010.com/), our friendly neighbors to the north are giving the number one sport to the United States. How nice is that? I’m probably reading too much into this, because their might be some group of Canadians who debated for weeks on how they were going to tally the medal count feeling very foolish right now… but I have to say… the Canadian’s kicked some very serious Winter Olympic bootie this year. As an America, no matter how you want to tally to results… but we need to chalk this Winter Olympiad up to a neighborhood victory!
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I think it should be weighted like at a swim (or track meet). 5 pts for gold, 3 for silver and 1 for bronze.
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