Now that the Olympics are over its time to break down the medal counts and take a view at just which nation the US or China had a more impressive showing. We shall take away all controversy (ie using underage girls) and take away whether or not an event one is a leisure game or any actual sport ie Badminton and simply play with the numbers.
Here is fact #1 the US won 10 more overall medals in Olympic events while the Chinese won 15 more gold medals. Putting together my own simple mathematical equation where a country is awarded 3 'points' for a gold, 2 'points' for a silver and 1 'point' for a bronze China wins by a total of 3 points as seen below. So by that generic equation I would typically say that the Chinese had a better Olympics than the US.
Golds | Silver | Bronze | Total | Math | |
China | 51 | 21 | 28 | 100 | 223 |
USA | 36 | 38 | 36 | 110 | 220 |
But now let us take a different view on things and think of how many medals a nation actually took home and not how many events a nation won. When the basketball team wins a gold medal twelve different athletes come home with a gold medal, not just one. So what would the totals look like when you take the list of American Athletes with medals compared to the Chinese athletes with medals? The answer, is a lot different. Of the large team sports China won medals in only women's field hockey (silver) and women's volleyball (bronze). Meanwhile the US won bronze in baseball, silver in softball, women's volleyball men's and women's water polo and gold in women's soccer, men's volleyball, men's and women's basketball. Thus we took home a lot more medals than did the Chinese, 51 to be exact.
Golds | Silver | Bronze | Total | Math | |
USA | 125 | 109 | 81 | 315 | 674 |
China | 74 | 55 | 56 | 185 | 388 |
So I dub it America wins.
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China beat us, they trained harder, they worked harder and they wanted to win more then we did. This is what the Olympics are about and they earned it. Stop making excuses on how much we failed this olympics.
It’s ridiculous to count each team member’s gold, hey, IOC still considers basketball gold as ONE gold!!!!!!