Official 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games thread!

[declansdad]

Fascinating.... AFAIC, Norway still leads. If one were to assign each medal a point value (like they do in with the placings in team figure skating for example) Norway still leads by a wide margin.

It's from Wiki but you can find the same thing in many places.

The Olympic medal table is a method of sorting the medal placements of countries in the modern-day Olympics and Paralympics. Officially, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic Games.[1] Nevertheless, the IOC does publish medal tables for information purposes, showing the total number of Olympic medals earned by athletes representing each country's respective National Olympic Committee.[2] The convention used by the IOC is to sort by the number of gold medals the athletes from a country have earned. In the event of a tie in the number of gold medals, the number of silver medals is taken into consideration, and then the number of bronze medals. If two countries have an equal number of gold, silver, and bronze medals, they are ordered in the table alphabetically by their IOC country code.

 

[SkaGoat]

I do agree that total metal count should come first though.

The amount of gold medals counts because you could have one country the didn't win anything, but has a bunch of bronze medals at the top of the chart and that doesn't make any sense... AFAIK USA is the only country that counts total medals for placement.

Technically, Canada was in the top spot for medal count in Vancouver, because Canada had the most amount of gold medals.

 

[cabanafrau]

The amount of gold medals counts because you could have one country the didn't win anything, but has a bunch of bronze medals at the top of the chart and that doesn't make any sense... AFAIK USA is the only country that counts total medals for placement.

Technically, Canada was in the top spot for medal count in Vancouver, because Canada had the most amount of gold medals.

I have heard the US is the only one who counts total medals many times over the past several years & assumed it was correct. This weekend I had the Olympics on when the medal count was discussed and displayed. I immediately grabbed for the remote, annoyed because I thought I was watching the Canadian coverage, which I usually prefer. Turned out I was was watching CBC after all.

 

[declansdad]

The amount of gold medals counts because you could have one country the didn't win anything, but has a bunch of bronze medals at the top of the chart and that doesn't make any sense... AFAIK USA is the only country that counts total medals for placement.

Technically, Canada was in the top spot for medal count in Vancouver, because Canada had the most amount of gold medals.

Technically they weren't, the IOC doesn't recognize one country as the overall winner.


But we do!!

 

[BKMETV]

I found this interesting:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/medals

At the top NBC has the top 3 by total medals

1. Netherlands
2. Norway
3. Canada

then below they are listed by Gold medals won

1. Netherlands
2. Canada
3. Norway

...no wonder people get confused.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

http://img1.findthebest.com/sites/default/files/wimg/iyS.png

Can this even be possible? US has won over 2,500 medals in all Olympics? Has to be a typo, doesn't it? I mean the closest after is Germany with just over 1,000?

 

[declansdad]

Woohoo!!!

 

[BKMETV]

Woohoo!!!

 

[BKMETV]

http://img1.findthebest.com/sites/default/files/wimg/iyS.png

Can this even be possible? US has won over 2,500 medals in all Olympics? Has to be a typo, doesn't it? I mean the closest after is Germany with just over 1,000?

US always does really well...especially at the Summer Olympics. I found these numbers on a different site:

1 United States of America 2656
2 USSR 1204
3 Great Britain 802
4 Germany 762
5 Italy 655

 

[PrincessKsMom]

US always does really well...especially at the Summer Olympics. I found these numbers on a different site:

1 United States of America 2656
2 USSR 1204
3 Great Britain 802
4 Germany 762
5 Italy 655

Which just goes to show that you nothing you read can be trusted. You would think that something like this would have a definitive answer, but the numbers are all different.

 

[maddiel]

Which just goes to show that you nothing you read can be trusted. You would think that something like this would have a definitive answer, but the numbers are all different.

When you think about how many countries have transformed since the games began, it makes sense that it's not always definitive. For example, you could add East and West Germany to modern Germany to get a total for Germany - but how do you divvy up the USSR's medals between the countries that used to make up the USSR?

M.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

When you think about how many countries have transformed since the games began, it makes sense that it's not always definitive. For example, you could add East and West Germany to modern Germany to get a total for Germany - but how do you divvy up the USSR's medals between the countries that used to make up the USSR?

M.

I had considered that, but even the totals for the USA are different.

 

[maddiel]

I had considered that, but even the totals for the USA are different.

I think I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that they don't always count the years where there was a significant number of countries that boycotted - like Moscow in 1980 ans Los Angeles in 1984. Maybe one set of numbers does that?

M.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I think I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that they don't always count the years where there was a significant number of countries that boycotted - like Moscow in 1980 ans Los Angeles in 1984. Maybe one set of numbers does that? M.

This way my thought as well.

 

[pryncess527]

Dp

 

[pryncess527]

A difference could also be if stripped medals have been subtracted from the counts, some athletes have lost their medals due to doping. Wiki has a full chart that claims to be up to date (pre Sochi)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table

 

[Bay Hill]

A few things so far during the Games...

The parade of nations was great with the athletes going thru a tunnel in the middle of the floor of the stadium. It was neat to see all the nighttime GRU spy space country shots. (GRU / KGB)

NBC is a homer for Putin, a former head for the KGB.

Costas still has pinkeye.

The Norway men's curling team pants looks like a Partridge Family flashback.

A skating judge's row...hey, the cold war lives on. A good move by the ISU for the idea of the team event.

The Lolo Jones my life as a drama queen coming to a bobsled track near you. ( The men's bobsled team can't catch a break at the village)

What's up with the IOC with the ban of memorial stickers?

And the men's hockey starts on Thursday.

 

[Shutterbug]

according to this:

http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2014/02/10/helmet-crash-snowboarder-stopped-for-drug-testing/

Sarka had to do a drug test before going to the hospital yesterday following her crash. I wonder if she was selected to take the drug test because of her crash? Also that the major medical tests were clear.

 

[SkaGoat]

according to this:

http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2014/02/10/helmet-crash-snowboarder-stopped-for-drug-testing/

Sarka had to do a drug test before going to the hospital yesterday following her crash. I wonder if she was selected to take the drug test because of her crash? Also that the major medical tests were clear.

Skate Canada isn't happy about the drug testing so far either! Even testing athletes the morning before competing which doesn't happen very often.

Seven of the 17 members of the figure skating team have reportedly been tested since arriving in Sochi – a high number – including Osmond on Saturday and another two at midnight the day they arrived.

Mike Slipchuk, Skate Canada’s high performance director, said Sunday he’s “never seen anyone tested before on the day of a competition.”

He’s brought the issue up with the Canadian Olympic Committee.

“At least we’re running out of skaters to be tested, which is a good thing.”

http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/canadian-figure-skaters-position-for-silver-team-battle.html

 

[Jafar30]

Watching the Moguls just makes my knees hurt