The logic for this is completely backwards. Number of gold first, number of silver second as a tiebreaker, then number of bronze third. Only the US counts medals the way in this quiz.. which is odd because they are almost always first both ways. Tiger Woods won 3 US Opens, Phil Mickelson finished second 6 times. Is Phil the better golfer? Six 'medals' to three.
2024 top 4 was US, China, Japan, Australia. Period.
Bronze should count. A gold counts for more of course, but bronze is pretty damn impressive too, it still means you're in the top 3 in the world for that event. What has more sporting talent, a country that has 25 gold or a country that has 20 gold and 20 silver? I propose a weighted score system. Perhaps it could be something like 0.6*Gold+0.3*Silver+0.1*Bronze = Total Score. Yes this would be more complicated, but also fairer.
Good idea. I’d just use 3 2 1 for gold silver and bronze, but the principal is sound, and gives a more satisfactory result than either total medals or total golds.
Strictly speaking none are "official" according to the IOC, and you can sort by total medal count on the Olympics website too. But yes, sorting by gold first is the primary method they display.
I'm pretty sure that's consistent with other quizzes on here. Modern Germany is an enlarged version of the West German state that existed before 1990, while East Germany ceased to exist in 1990 when its land was annexed into the West German/German state.
The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) annexed the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and continued to exist. West Germany isn't a former country.
Americans choose to play by their own rules, not surprised that this site is doing it the way the American media ran it during the 2024 Olympics. But the rest of the world was indeed laughing at the US media for doing so. Would not be surprised that inside the US there was no awareness of the rest of the world laughing however.
It's always been about winning the most gold medals as first consideration and not total medals.
There is no official ranking for countries. According to IOC it is only a competition between athletes in each sport, nothing more. The medals ranking is coming from media not from any official organisation.
2024 top 4 was US, China, Japan, Australia. Period.
The quiz is using an unoffical ranking, which is a bit misleading considering the title of the quiz.
Maybe this should be changed?
It's always been about winning the most gold medals as first consideration and not total medals.